RMF and MVS operations planning

Resource Measurement Facility™ provides data for performance measurements, capacity planning, and trouble shooting. RMF™ can display information at the touch of a button and provides functions to archive collected data for future reports and analysis.

The functions RMF offers ensure the manageability of large enterprise systems. They assist in performance management without the need to logon to every system where data is collected, and they support the new concept of managing workloads by MVS™ through service level reporting.

With RMF, you can monitor the performance of the whole system complex from a single point of control, thus increasing user productivity:

Sysplex performance reports
Selectable single-system reports in the sysplex
Sysplex data server to access data across the sysplex

RMF provides performance data about business-oriented workloads and assists in managing service levels efficiently. In addition, you get performance information for CICS® and IMS™ subsystems.

Coupling technology in the sysplex makes high-performance data sharing possible and can increase the manageability of your whole environment. RMF provides the data necessary for planning of the coupling facility configuration.

For information on RMF, see z/OS RMF User's Guide.