Collect, investigate and analyze performance data

IBM® iDoctor is a suite of dynamic tools that identify performance issues quickly on IBM i systems. Monitor your overall system health at a high level, and take advantage of advanced drill-down capabilities for specific issues. Some iDoctor tools are complimentary, and others require a license key.

iDoctor is sold via IBM Technology Services Statements of Work (SOWs).

Features

• **Wait analysis: **iDoctor graphically shows you the types of waits occurring, identifies resource conflicts, and pinpoints the cause of many performance issues.
• **Monitoring: **Collect data 24x7 so you can start analysis when a problem occurs. Retain only the amount of historical data that you desire.
• **Dynamic legend: **Quickly add or remove selected metrics to best suit your needs using menu options or drag and drop.
• **Situational analysis: **Identify problem areas based on real-life IBM support performance problems that have occurred in the past.
• **Report generator: **Automate the creation of PDF reports of desired graphs. Email the results on a pre-determined collection schedule.
• **Make comparisons: **Visually compare good runs with bad or compare different types of data sets side by side.
• **Free functions: **Get help with common tasks such as working with jobs, browsing libraries and objects, viewing the IFS, transferring files, creating reports and more.

Benefits

**Client-server based: **Get more flexibility with the same engines, commands and database files as other web-based tools. **Frequent enhancements: **Optimize performance with new functions added quarterly based on client and consultant feedback. **Drill-down analysis: **Solve problems quickly by graphing high-level data then ranking, sorting and filtering results.

Add-ons

• **Collection Services Investigator: **Visualize high-level performance data to monitor or investigate job, CPU, disk or memory performance issues or make comparisons across multiple LPARs.
• **Job Watcher: **Get real-time, detailed views of job/thread/task performance data. View displays of running and waiting job components, and analyze waiting jobs.
• **PEX Analyzer: **Simplify the collection and analysis of all types of PEX data. Pinpoint the issues that are affecting system and application performance.