BMC MAXM Database Advisor for IMS

Automate IMS database maintenance

IMS data is growing, IT budgets are shrinking, and IMS experts are retiring. Continuous availability and performance requirements, as well as expensive CPU cycles, strain maintenance schedules. New DBAs need to learn how to manage IMS, but the next generation of IMS DBAs grew up with easy-to-use graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and intuitive tools. How will they be able to manage complex IMS environments to provide optimal performance and continuous availability?

BMC solution

BMC MAXM Database Advisor for IMS proactively manages IMS database maintenance and prevents unplanned outages to improve availability while reducing costs. A GUI enables you to work with all IMS databases in your environment, including full-function, HALDB, and Fast Path.

Features and benefits

• Reorganizes only the databases that need to be reorganized, enabling substantial savings for CPU, I/O, and storage resources
• Determines what databases need maintenance – and when – and notifies you, so that you can improve productivity
• Eliminates unnecessary maintenance, unplanned outages, manual effort, and errors to provide the availability you need
• Collects database statistics automatically and generates JCL that takes advantage of your installed products
• Provides a GUI to manage all IMS databases and systems
• Enables less experienced DBAs to manage IMS databases

Key differentiators

• Proactively notifies you of database reorganization needs
• Automates IMS database maintenance: captures statistical information, analyzes the statistics, forecasts exceptions, and generates optimized JCL for the reorganization
• Provides a GUI to manage all IMS databases