BMC MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS

Panel-driven CICS automation

IT problem

High availability of systems and key CICS environments is required to respond to the accelerating needs driven by critical business applications. With the demand to reduce costs yet improve performance and throughput, the need for advanced automation, problem analysis and correction has never been more clear.

BMC solution

BMC MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS simplifies application management across any CICS environment. It monitors the CICS Transient Data Queue (TDQ) messages. This provides for easy generation of management of event rules that create comprehensive alerts and results in corrective actions to prevent an outage. It is an integrated member of the MainView family and that means swift transfer to problem analysis and correction using the appropriate management product, even on remote systems The solution:

Features and benefits

• Offers single system image and a single point of control to manage objects on an unlimited number of CICS regions.
• Reduces number of automation failures by using the panel-driven rules processor to automate CICS environments
• Simplifies maintenance using topology diagrams that understand the relationships between your rules and REXX code
• Provides a centralized automation log for auditing purposes
• Delivers fully integrated support of CICS commands

Key differentiators

• Simplifies the monitoring and management of all CICS environment which includes, the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG), Multi-Region Operations (MRO) and stand alone from one centralized product
• Reduces automation cost by using efficient, low CPU overhead automation rules without generating or using any REXX code
• Integrates with the MainView infrastructure to provide efficient 3270 interface and mainframe based intelligent Web interface, the same look and feel as all MainView monitoring products
• Drives automation from any address space using AOAnywhere API
• Supports advanced cross-platform automation using BMC solutions; BMC Atrium Orchestrator, BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management and BMC MainView AutoOPERATOR
• Provides intelligent event management support using AutoOPERATOR MainView API, base notification decisions on the full spectrum of MainView monitoring metrics

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