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BMC MAINVIEW for CICS

No limit monitoring and management of CICS & CICSplex environments

IT problem

Proactive management automation of CICS and CICSplex raises a requirement for tools that are tightly integrated with other products in your environment. Of course this best practice is now a mandate in the era of pressure on IT to continue to lower costs. And finding those tools can be big challenge.

BMC Solution

MAINVIEW for CICS brings advanced automation capabilities and performance management for traditional CICS and parallel processing environments. MAINVIEW for CICS through its tightly integrated components makes, troubleshooting quick and easy. It exploits MAINVIEW plex-ready technology, integrated advanced Alarm Management, centralized audit logging, intelligent Web Interface without the need to resort to costly, inefficient, add-on - additional software layers, high-overhead workstation-based solutions. The solution:

Features and benefits

  • Offers single system image and a single point of control to monitor an unlimited number of CICS and CICSPlex systems
  • Delivers rapid information on critical CICS metrics like Region, Task, Lock and Delay Analysis, Programs, CP, Storage, and VSAM - across the enterprise to manage resources effectively and efficiently
  • Monitors transaction counts, response times and throughput rates by business process
  • Delivers real-time and historical data on a single screen
  • Provides flexible reporting including access to all data fields in all views to report detailed and summary information
  • Offers flexible online interfaces: efficient 3270 Windows Interface, Mainframe Centric- Intelligent Web Browser

Key differentiators

  • Delivers highly efficient yet  low overhead detail monitors
  • Provides integrated support for CICS Transaction Gateway
  • Auto-Connect of CICS regions
  • Simplifies the monitoring and management of CICS resources in MRO environments
  • Tracks transactions from CICSinto other MAINVIEW monitoring products (hyperlinks, commands) to quickly identity where performance issues are occurring
  • Identifies performance issues before they impact the business with  advanced alarm management
  • Provides integration with the MAINVIEW infrastructure to provide the same look and feel across all MAINVIEW monitoring products

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