Optimize performance and availability of vital IMS systems and reduce potential delays or outages with reporting capabilities

IBM OMEGAMON® for IMS® on z/OS® is a performance-monitoring software for IMS workloads, which provides a single control point in Parallel Sysplex® and monitors IMS Connect TCP/IP transactions. It is a part of the OMEGAMON family of software products.

IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS provides alerts, finds root-cause issues and takes corrective actions. It reduces potential delays and outages by monitoring near real-time metrics and analyzing historical data. It also provides access to coupling facility structure statistics, shared queue counts, database lock conflicts and more.

It is available as a stand-alone offering or as part of IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS or IBM Z Monitoring Suite.

Features

• **Real-time monitoring and automatic discovery: **Provides real-time visibility into IMS performance, along with automatic discovery of all IMS and IMS Connect regions, enabling quick identification and mapping of the IMS footprint.
• **Performance and availability management with application response time tracking: **Monitors IMS transaction performance, including response times across IMS Shared Queues (CSQ), helping to identify delays and bottlenecks within the IMSplex. Response time tracking is part of Response Time Analysis, which allows monitoring and tracking of IMS transactions in real-time. 
• **Historical data analysis with Detailed Application Performance Monitoring: **Collects performance data, while the Application Trace Facility provides detailed metrics on IMS applications, including DL/I, Db2 and MQ calls, to support in-depth trend analysis.
• **Automated problem detection with Key Performance Indicator (KPI) alerts: **Detects and alerts on potential issues by using customizable thresholds and built-in KPI tracking to quickly identify performance problems in IMS.
• **Integrated cross-system monitoring and consolidated logs: **Offers IMS Commander that provides end-to-end monitoring with consolidated logs of IMS MTO, SMTO and z/OS Console messages, helping ensure seamless management across the mainframe environment.
• **User-friendly interfaces and simplified deployment: **Provides enhanced 3270UI and Tivoli® Enterprise Portal interfaces, with simplified deployment processes to reduce configuration time, allowing administrators to focus on monitoring rather than setup.

Benefits

• **Comprehensive monitoring and performance management: **Provides real-time visibility into IMS subsystems, tracking transaction response times across the IMSplex. With Response Time Analysis, it helps pinpoint delays and optimize performance, minimizing impact on critical applications.  
• **Problem detection and quick troubleshooting: **Detects performance bottlenecks with bottleneck analysis displays and monitors applications exceeding service-level commitments. It quickly identifies issues, helping resolve problems before they impact system availability. 
• **Integration with z/OS and broader IBM Monitoring Suite: **Integrates with IBM monitoring tools for unified mainframe control. IMS Commander consolidates MTO and z/OS logs, allowing IMS commands from one interface. Configuration Manager simplifies installation, streamlining configuration and reducing z/OS complexity.