Tools for detailed monitoring

Many of the monitoring tools you can use to collect detailed data are also used for general diagnostics. The principal tool provided by IMS for collecting and analyzing data is the IMS Monitor, which allows you to monitor online subsystems.

For a stand-alone IMS DB batch system driven by an SLDS, use the DB Monitor. The DB Monitor can be active during the entire execution of an IMS batch job, or you can stop and restart it from the system console.

You can also use the IMS Performance Analyzer, program isolation and lock traces, and the external trace facility.

To obtain a unified view of workload performance for IMS systems and other participating z/OS® components or middleware across the z/OS stack, you can use IBM® z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator to gain data in a standardized, synchronized, contextualized format.