BMC AMI Strobe

Using iStrobe, a browser-based Strobe reporting and analytics interface, performance analysts can identify and view:

• Program statements consuming excessive CPU resources
• Percentage of CPU time used within modules and control sections
• Procedure names and statement numbers
• Complete lines of source code
• Treemaps of CPU usage and wait report details, enabling easy navigation to performance issues along with drill-down capabilities
• IBM^® Db2^® SQL analysis to understand performance impact

• Intuitive, easy-to-use measurement request form provides helpful targeting, sampling, and reporting options, plus suggestions to help users of all experience levels easily create and submit repeatable Strobe measurements
• Proactively initiate a measurement when abnormal behavior occurs in a program
• Use Strobe’s Global Monitoring System Management Facilities (SMF) collection to identify and initiate measurements on the jobs using the most CPU, running the longest, and performing the highest I/O
• See the most important tuning targets available in categories like COBOL^®, Db2^®, IBM^® Language Environment, and file access

AutoStrobe includes Global Batch Monitoring, a feature that automates the detection of performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed time metrics for cost-aware performance tuning. When it encounters and issue, Batch Global Monitoring initiates measurement of the job so you can see what’s going on and correct it.

• Execute reports to find problems across profiles
• Query SMF data to determine what jobs should be measured
• View analysis for all major subsystem components