BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Online

We’re watching IMS so you can watch your business

IMS doesn’t run in isolation; multiple IMS systems communicate with each other and with other database management systems, transaction managers, and components used in web enablement. Processing a common workload in this multi-system environment presents unique challenges in systems management and performance monitoring. How can you monitor, manage, and automate IMS workloads to optimize performance and ensure high availability?

BMC solution

BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Online offers a proactive approach to monitoring, managing, and optimizing IMS workloads. It ensures the availability, performance, and throughput of IMS business applications and identifies IMS performance problems so that you can correct them before they cause outages. Whether you need a real-time picture of your IMS systems or a tool to help you tune overall system performance, BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Online shows you the performance data you need, when you need it.

Features and benefits

• Monitors and manages application service levels across IMS environments to reduce the risk of costly outages
• Identifies IMS performance problems before they affect end user service levels
• Enables you to trace data in chronological order for each available event, from summary to detailed transaction level, through the powerful application trace
• Manages traditional and data  sharing environments
• Provides information about the balance between volume of work and the capacity to process it
• Enables end-to-end IMS transaction response time analysis
• Provides detailed performance data

Key differentiators

• Integration with BMC MAINVIEW Transaction Analyzer - enables end-to-end transaction analysis for z/OS components
• Integration with BMC Energizer for IMS Connect – monitors IMS Connect activity
• Integration with all other BMC MAINVIEW for products through a single interface
• Single system image – enables a centralized view of applications and related subsystems across the z/OS environment
• Freedom of choice – you can manage IMS through a web-based interface (MAINVIEW Explorer) or ISPF

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