IBM IMS Administration Foundation for z/OS

The IBM® IMS Administration Foundation for z/OS® provides the foundation for managing IMS.

It provides capability of viewing IMS system and resource status. You can use its features after installing IMS Tools Base and activating the IMS Administration Foundation features on IBM Unified Management Server for z/OS.

With IMS Administration Foundation, you can perform the following tasks:
  • Simplifying your administrative tasks by using an IMS command processor and a SQL processor.
  • Drilling down IMSplex components and IMS online resources to see their status and finding their relations, or issuing IMS commands.
  • Searching the entire sysplex to retrieve information on IMS DBD, PSB, DBRC-defined groups, and IMS online resources and their relationships.
If you also installed some of IMS Tools products, extended features become available, such as the following features:
  • Viewing IMS Tools utility reports for databases, HALDB partitions, and DEDB areas.
  • Visualizing the database segment structure and segment relationships defined in DBDs and PSBs.
  • Detecting threshold exceptions for some selected database space statistics and reviewing those exceptions, history, and the trend of statistics associated with the exceptions.
  • Detecting if a database reorganization or an image copy is needed based on the pre-defined criteria.