Effectively manage multiple IMS systems
Overview
Single point of control for IMS system operations
IMS™ Sysplex Manager for z/OS® is a single point of control for IMS system operations, enabling you to manage multiple IMS systems in a sysplex or IMSplex environment through a centralized interface. Its dashboard helps monitor system health with critical data and threshold-based alerts.
Features
Streamline IMS operations
IMS Sysplex Manager for z/OS keeps an inventory of all key IMS system components. It also tracks all defined and active IMS system parameters. It can issue both Type 1 and Type 2 IMS commands, and both types of commands can be routed to multiple IMS systems. The IMS Sysplex Manager monitors the dependent regions and tracks availability, transaction classes and which regions are holding the most database locks and creating the most contention.
IMS Sysplex Manager monitors the key resources in the IMS environment, including transactions, programs, databases, LTERMs and terminals. It allows you to alter resource status from a single control point. In the Common Service Layer (CSL) environment, the IMS Resource Manager (RM) tracks the global state of key IMS resources. IMS Sysplex Manager provides real-time monitoring of the RM resources and allows you to choose resources by owner or by type of resource.
In an IMS data sharing environment, applications can hold IRLM database locks for so long that they cause contention issues for specific database resources. IMS Sysplex Manager can automatically identify applications that cause this type of problem. IMS Sysplex Manager also tracks transaction routing statistics. It provides buffer overflow protection by failing insert calls after user-specified thresholds have been reached.
IMS Sysplex Manager allows you to create your own customizable dashboard to monitor the IMS system activity. Through this dashboard, you can manage the overall health of the IMS system in a single glance. You are able to set up alerts when user-defined “thresholds” are reached and log these alert conditions for future analysis.
IMS Sysplex Manager allows defining transactions (by name or class) that have affinity to one or more IMS systems in the shared queue group. You can create and update affinity for transaction destinations. Affinity routing gives you more control over where a transaction or group of transactions should be processed. You can dynamically change or add IMS Sysplex Manager affinity definitions without restarting IMS or without deleting and reallocating CQS affinity structure.
Use cases
Simplify IMS operations at scale
Monitor and manage IMS and Sysplex environments from a centralized view. Track system health with customizable dashboards, simplify troubleshooting with consolidated history data, and optimize transaction processing with affinity routing.
Help teams monitor and manage IMS systems, regions, CSL RM, coupling facilities and shared queues from a single interface while issuing Type 1 and Type 2 commands.
Help teams build customized dashboards that surface critical operational data, making it easier to assess IMS status, identify issues and monitor overall health.
Help teams capture command input, command output and MTO messages in a single history database, simplifying audits, investigations and problem resolution.
Help teams control where transactions are processed with affinity routing and manage shared message queue balancing to improve availability and workload distribution.
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