IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2

AI-powered observability for Db2 — smarter insights, faster performance, lower cost

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IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 delivers real-time and historical insights to optimize performance, automate anomaly detection, and enable proactive issue resolution through AI-driven intelligence. Leverage advanced performance monitoring and cost optimization to empower Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Db2 administrators, and performance analysts with deeper visibility, faster diagnostics, and greater efficiency. 

For more information see IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 6.1.0. Experience AI-powered observability for Db2 — smarter insights, faster performance, lower cost.

Benefits Prevent performance issues before they impact service

With explainable AI and automation that detect anomalies early, accelerate root-cause analysis, and empower your teams to achieve a higher level of service.

Improve overall system and application performance

Gain real-time Db2 performance insights and get early problem detection with automated alerts.

View unified insights in observability platforms

Steam critical performance metrics to your choice of observability platforms such as IBM Instana and Splunk, enabling instant visibility in dashboards and AI tools.

Features
Application response time monitoring and analysis

Use the SQL-level monitoring capabilities of distributed applications to access Db2 for z/OS. Meet customer satisfaction service-level agreements because of fewer response time delays.

Performance tool for Db2

Use batch-reporting capabilities combined with near real-time monitoring and historical tracking functions. Access detailed reports, along with performance data and analysis tools stored in a performance warehouse. 

Single engine for performance data collection

Perform data collection from a single engine that maintains familiar Db2 interfaces, including the enhanced 3270 interface. The same installation and configuration tool is used for all IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2.

AI-driven operational insights with IBM OMEGAMON

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 integrates with IBM Z OMEGAMON AI Insights, a diagnostic tool that helps identify and forecast the performance of z/OS system resources and applications. Use it as an AI/ML model to process a curated list of key performance indicators to identify anomalies indicative of poor performance and trends. Use IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider to help quickly detect problems, determine response and automate actions to remediate and prevent future occurrences.

Configuring OMEGAMON AI Insights

 

Enhanced 3270 user interface and Web UI

Implement the Enhanced 3270 user interface that provides complete SQL text, key thread displays, along with OMEGAMON family history and seamless integration of monitoring data from related IBM performance monitoring and analysis. Use the OMEGAMON Web UI with Grafana dashboards for higher visibility and event correlation for quick root cause analysis.

Simplified deployment process

Deploy and manage your OMEGAMON deployment faster through a reduction in required address spaces, configuration steps and parameters—coupled with automatic discovery of system properties during the deployment process.

Seamless and powerful integration

Simplify monitoring and management with a single-view of the mainframe and subsystems as part of OMEGAMON monitoring family. Extensive integration with IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2, and the OMEGAMON suites, Netcool Operations Insight and System Automation for z/OS.

Technical details

Ensure that you meet the following requirements and prerequisites for IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2.

Hardware requirements: You can deploy the product on any IBM Z system that is capable of running z/OS, version 2 release 3, or later.

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Related integrations OMEGAMON AI for Db2 offers numerous integrations with other tools.
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Resource usage

IBM Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer provides information about resource usage and costs associated with SQL queries without you having to run them in Db2. Such analysis helps you tune your queries to achieve maximum performance and cost optimization.

IBM Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer
Db2 subsystems transparency

The integration of OMEGAMON AI for Db2 with IBM Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS (Db2 Query Monitor) provides you with access to more detailed information about your Db2 subsystems.

IBM Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS
Linking with OMEGAMON

Dynamic Workspace Linking provides linkage with other OMEGAMONs via TEP and E3270.

Dynamic Workspace Linking
Next steps

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