BMC MAINVIEW for WebSphere MQ

Reduce the Cost of Managing WebSphere MQ

IT problem

As the dominant middleware messaging provider, WebSphere MQ acts as a central hub for connecting mission critical applications in most large enterprises. Any, any outage could disable a wide variety of applications, affecting the core business of the enterprise. Nowhere is this more true than in the z/OS environment.

BMC solution

BMC MAINVIEW for WebSphere MQ provides an out-of-the-box solution that easily integrates into the WebSphere MQ environment to ensure WebSphere MQ health and availability. From a single console, it provides complete control over WebSphere MQ administration, configuration, performance monitoring and automation. As it is a flexible based on a scalable, tiered architecture, it is easy to customize to meet individual site requirements and manage the full range of z/OS system requirements.

Features and benefits

• Improves operator productivity with centralized administration of WebSphere MQ objects and messages
• Reduces configuration errors by using topology displays to see exceptions
• Provides overall health of queue managers, including get and put rates using the WebSphere MQ Tuning Wizard
• Improves efficiency of applications using shared queues by monitoring coupling facility usage
• Optimizes application response time by moving queues from one storage class to another
• Measures WMQ function call performance using the API Trace Facility for faster problem identification
• Identifies heavily used page sets which may be impacting performance

Key differentiators

• Fully integrated with the MAINVIEW family of monitors

Related Products

• BMC MAINVIEW for WebSphere Application Server
• BMC Middleware Management - Administration for WebSphere MQ
• BMC Middleware Management - Performance and Availability