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IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS


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Overview
  • How does your IMS specialist analyze and isolate IMS transactions and performance bottlenecks and then tune your IMS system based on this information?
  • Would you like an easy way to measure the usage and availability of critical resources such as databases, programs, regions, buffers, and queues?
  • How do you plan for the operational management of IMS, including the scheduling of database re-orgs, monitoring adherence to service level agreements, charge-back accounting, and capacity planning?
  • Would you like to help your system and application programmers be more productive?
  • Would being able to easily produce high level management summaries, graphical reports, and detailed traces for in-depth analysis of critical performance information help you?

For these and a variety of other reasons, IMS Performance Analyzer has become the standard for IMS resource and performance management. IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS, V4.1 provides end-to-end IMS Connect and IMS log reporting, revealing a transaction's life cycle through Connect and IMS.

Key Features
  • Helps improve IMS system performance and database availability.
  • Delivers end-to-end transit analysis for all types of transaction workloads, including shared-queues by merging sysplex log files.
  • Analyzes the impact of IMS Connect on transaction performance.
  • Provides an ISPF dialog and batch commands to best manage reporting requirements across your entire IMS enterprise.
  • Offers DBRC Log selection for quick and easy log report requests
  • Allows you to design your own transit reports through the Report Forms feature
  • Provides comprehensive IMS monitor reporting including Fast Path
  • IMS Performance Analyzer complements IBM IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS in the investigation of IMS performance related problems.

Program number: 5655-R03
Performance Management


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System Requirements

IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS, V4.1, is designed to operate with IMS Version 8.1 (5655-C56) and IMS Version 9.1 (5655-J38).

IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS, V4.1, will operate on any S/390 hardware configuration that supports the required versions of IMS.

Installation of IMS Performance Analyzer requires:

  • z/OS Version 1.6 or later (contains SMP/E) (5604-A01)
  • SMP/E for z/OS Version 3.3 or later (5655-G44)

In order for IMS Performance Analyzer to produce IMS Connect reports, the following product is needed:

For more information on system requirements, see the Program Directory on the Library page.


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