What IBM Z Decision Support can do for your business

IBM® Z® Decision Support (formerly IBM Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS®) collects SMF and other structured data sources on IBM Z and other platforms for easy access to historical enterprise-wide IT utilization information that assists in performance reporting, service-level management and usage accounting.

Transforming raw system data into actionable analytical insights using automated, real-time gathering and continuous curation of SMF data, IBM Z Decision Support provides an integrated view of your operational data enabling you to increase IT efficiency and reduce costs.

Features

• Automated data gathering
• Continuous curation of key performance metrics
• Consumable out-of-the-box dashboards
• Extensible data framework

Benefits

• **Faster access to insight: **Near real-time data collection and curation with zIIP-eligible processing can lower overhead and get analysis and insight within minutes of SMF record creation to ensure system resource availability.
• **Modern visualization: **Out-of-the-box dashboards on key performance metrics and capacity planning delivered on Cognos Analytics and output directly to Splunk or Elastic Stack via integration with Common Data Provider.
• **Keep data close to the platform: **Ensure your valuable IBM Z data remains under your control using the end-to-end collection and curation process that keeps the data on platform.