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BMC Energizer for CICS

Business Challenge

CICS performance and availability is critical to standard and e-business applications. Performance tuning depends mainly on passive monitoring, and the experience and time of scarce CICS system programmers. With the complexity of systems and applications, and the variable workloads e-business applications generate, current tuning processes are not as efficient and effective as they used to be. This creates a need for more jobs, more throughput, and often, CPU upgrades to keep pace with the growth.

Business Need

  • Improve system availability and reliability
  • Solve performance problems with built-in expertise
  • Increase CICS throughput

Our Solution

Energizer for CICS dynamically manages and tunes CICS system parameters and resource utilization. In addition, Energizer for CICS improves transaction throughput by using an exclusive, patented algorithm to optimize the way OS/390 dispatches CICS. This capability is important for standard applications, but it is essential for handling the highly variable workloads generated by Web applications.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Increases CICS throughput, typically by 10% to 15%
  • Provides spare CPU resources, buffers and strings at peak demand periods
  • Manages CICS dynamically and in real-time
  • Decreases CPU utilization, typically by 10% to 15%, possibly delaying hardware purchases
  • Eliminates over-commitment of resources by dynamically matching workload to the existing environment

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