Managing performance

IMS performance management is made up of a set of activities, designed to achieve a set of goals.

The goals consist of:

Procedure

  1. Establish performance objectives for each subsystem (IMS, TSO, Batch) and their relative priorities.
  2. Initialize MVS and subsystem parameters with a view to meeting the defined performance objectives.
  3. Monitor the operation of the total system to confirm that performance objectives are being met.
    The three broad levels of monitoring are:
    • Dynamic monitoring to discover if performance deviates from established objectives
    • Daily monitoring of key performance objectives in order to observe trends and early indicators of possible performance problems
    • Detailed monitoring performed periodically to review performance and decide on tuning requirements

    For more information about these levels of monitoring, see Collecting and interpreting IMS monitoring data.

  4. Identify a problem that has been monitored and correct it with minimum disruption of normal service to users.
  5. Perform capacity planning or trend analysis to ensure that projected loads will not cause performance problems in the foreseeable future.

Establishing performance objectives and monitoring operations are addressed in Monitoring the system. Performing capacity planning or a trend analysis is described in Performing capacity planning and in Using the IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS® in IMS Version 15.5 Operations and Automation.