Performance Reporter for MVS and Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390

Performance Reporter for MVS™ (formerly Performance Data Manager for MVS) and Tivoli® Decision Support for OS/390® are IBM® products that collect and analyze data from IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS and other IBM systems and products. You can build reports that help you with:

• System overviews
• Service levels
• Availability
• Performance and tuning
• Capacity planning
• Change and problem management
• Accounting.

Many predefined reports are available. You can also generate your own reports to meet specific needs.

The reports use data from the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS job-tracking files. Performance Reporter for MVS and Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390 also collect data from the MVS system and from products such as RMF™, TSO, IMS™ and NetView®. This means that data from IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS and other systems can be shown together, or can be presented in separate reports.

Reports can be presented as plots, bar charts, pie charts, tower charts, histograms, surface charts, and other graphic formats. Performance Reporter for MVS and Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390 simply pass the data and formatting details to Graphic Data Display Manager (GDDM®), which does the rest. Performance Reporter for MVS and Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390 can also produce line graphs and histograms using character graphics, where GDDM, is not available or the output device does not support graphics. For some reports, where you need the exact figures, numeric reports such as tables and matrices are more suitable.

For details on Performance Reporter for MVS or on Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390, refer to Performance Reporter for OS/390, System Performance Feature Reference, Volume 2.