BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Offline

We’re watching IMS so you can watch your business

To manage IMS workloads, you need extensive information about user and system activity and database performance. To analyze costs, you need to measure IMS usage. To prevent potential problems, you need to assess the long-term trends and changes in IMS system behavior. You need to understand and maintain the balance between the volume of work and the capacity to process it. How can you accomplish all of these goals with an easy-to-use tool?

BMC solution

BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Offline provides complete IMS monitoring and includes external subsystem monitoring through the IMS Attach Facility. It measures all IMS-processed transaction, program, and DL/I and DB2 for z/OS subsystem activity and collects IMS event data for offline IMS performance and accounting reporting.

Features and benefits

• Provides cost allocation reporting for charge back
• Enables comprehensive response time and resource utilization analysis
• Reports long-term behavioral patterns of IMS systems
• Provides information to help with capacity planning
• Reports  user and system activity and database performance

Key differentiators

• Uses the transaction accountant to exploit the detailed event collector information to recover the costs of IMS usage
• Delivers a billing facility to charge customers precisely for the services they have used
• Charge-back structure is user customizable

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