BMC System Performance for IMS

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 System Performance for IMS monitors, manages, automates, and optimizes complex IMS environments. 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. BMC System Performance for IMS offers extensive transaction level reporting and analysis capabilities that can be used for charge-back. It generates comprehensive response time and resource utilization analysis reports. BMC System Performance for IMS includes the following products:

• BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Online
• BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Offline

Features and benefits

• Provides information about the balance between volume of work and the capacity to process it
• Generates comprehensive reports on response time, resource utilization, user and system activity, database performance  and  for understanding long-term changes in overall behavioral patterns of IMS systems
• Reduces the risk of costly outages - monitors and manages application service levels across the IMS environment
• Enables proactive control - Identifies and resolves IMS systems management problems before they affect end user service levels
• Manages traditional and data  sharing environments
• Provides information about the balance between volume of work and the capacity to process it
• Integrates with MAINVIEW for z/OS, DB2, CICS, IP, VTAM, WebSphere MQ, and Transaction Analyzer using a single interface

Key differentiators

• Powerful application trace - enables you to trace data in chronological order for each available event from summary to detailed transaction level
• 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