BMC AMI Ops for IMS (formerly MainView for IMS Management) provides IMS and DBCTL monitoring, performance tuning, reporting, cost allocation, and automation—all from a single, consolidated point of control.

Insight on the health, performance, and availability of IMS

• Reduce the risk of costly outages by identifying and resolving IMS and DBCTL problems before they affect end-user service levels
• Measure workload performance and database contention across IMS systems and IMSplexes
• Find a clear path—quickly and easily—to the source of complex application performance problems

Track problems to their source in record time and automate recovery

System Programmer: Gain visibility and actionable insights across IMS systems

• Extensive call tracing: Debug performance problems with call tracing that covers elapsed time, return codes, and I/O information
• IMS hotspots reporting: Know which mission critical BMPs, transactions, or applications are performing badly before they impact the business
• Recon datasets (DBRC) support: Set alarms on the status of the datasets, identify if I/O errors are occurring, and see other metrics associated with the RECONs
• MS DBA support: Identify the last image copy, be proactively notified of any EEQEs, identify if they are recoverable as you move to HALDBs, and see real-time updates about any important database

Executive: Clear, real-time monitoring for lower risk and lower cost

• Simple, accurate chargeback: Recover the costs of your IMS services by tracking detailed usage information for bill back to your customers
• Faster problem resolution: Integration with BMC AMI Data for IMS tools identifies the precise time and logs required to speed problem remediation.
• Optimized resource usage: Detects looping tasks including BMPs, MPRs, and MPPs and based on user specifications, resets, dumps, or cancels the resource that is negatively impacting availability
• Versatile security options: Secure your views, services, and commands either with easy-to-administer internal security features or with an external security manager
• Historical reporting and analysis: Compare historical and current data and build reports in CSV format for easy publishing and use by third-party products
• Actionable intelligence: Recommendations of which applications should be preloaded takes the guesswork out of scheduling

New DBA: Easily maintain healthy IMS environments

• Integrated IMS commands: Manipulate IMS resources directly from the BMC AMI Ops interface, including the ability to purge users, without the need to remember complex IMS commands
• Out-of-the-box automation: Take advantage of built-in automations to solve common problems, and then start building your own with a user-friendly, code-free interface
• Central, web-based interface: Enjoy the convenience of a user-friendly, web-based GUI that consolidates information from all of the BMC AMI Ops products you run