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What is IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS?
IBM Z® IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS® is a performance analysis solution that helps organizations monitor and optimize their mainframe environments. It enhances RMF and SMF data with built-in expertise to prevent disruptions, improve performance, and safeguard service availability.
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Screenshot of where IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS evaluates CICS metrics against best practices to highlight availability risks. Results are shown in red, yellow, and green, with detailed views by group, region, or time charts.
Who Buys & Uses IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS on a daily basis job of looking at bottleneck and performance problems. Also, for a better design and understanding of our environment. They have been helping us a lot in the post-mortem analysis.
Pros
- Storage Bottleneck
- Drill downs
- Correlations analysis
- Tape performance
Cons
- New IBM Boxes
- Better reports about switches and directors, mainly about SAN
- Better understanding of HDS hardware
Return on Investment
- Faster resolution
- Mitigate crisis and system downtimes
- Better utilization of hardware
- Knowhedgment about infrastructure
Usability
An invaluable tool!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Use IntelliMagic Vision to provide reports/graphs on utilization and identify top targets for tuning or realignment based on peak 4HRA.
The key business problem the product addresses is Mainframe cost containment/avoidance, either thru identifying Mainframe tuning inefficiencies or avoiding batch contention during peak utilization periods.
The key business problem the product addresses is Mainframe cost containment/avoidance, either thru identifying Mainframe tuning inefficiencies or avoiding batch contention during peak utilization periods.
Pros
- Identifies the top batch users during the peak 4HRA period
- Provides health check snapshots for various Mainframe metrics
- Provides quick insight for incident resolution
Cons
- Lack of insight into IMS utilization at a transactional level
- Lack of a detailed User Guide for navigation of VIsion
Return on Investment
- Reduced z/OS infrastructure costs based on identifying high CPU usage batch jobs during peak 4HRA window
- Faster generation of charts used during incident resolution, reducing MTTR
Usability
Other Software Used
IBM Z
An Independent Consultants Perspective on IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We offer mainframe education and consulting services. For the education side of our business, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is ideal because it helps us illustrate the concepts that we are presenting to the students in our classes. Its clean and powerful user interface allows us to focus on the meaning of the data that is being presented, rather than spending valuable time on how to use the tool. For the consulting side, if the client is an existing IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS customer, either on-premises or using the Cloud offering, we are able to work collaboratively with the clients' technicians to investigate questions they might have or anomalies that we might discover. In today's world, where everyone works remotely, the ability to quickly and easily pass reports back and forth nearly has the effect of working together on a shared PC. For clients that do not have IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS allows us to provide them with reports for all major system components with a common look and feel. Once again, they can concentrate on the information being provided, and we avoid the complexity of having to learn and use many different tools.
Pros
- The provision of hundreds of sample reports, combined with the ability to drill down from each report, is both powerful and a real time-saver.
- I love the ability to take an existing report, customize it to my needs, and quickly export it to a PDF or Powerpoint, or spreadsheet.
- The Health Insight reports are great for helping me quickly hone in on aspects of system performance that require further investigation, without having to browse through hundreds of reports that simply report that everything is 'normal'.
Cons
- I wish that the CPU reports would show CPU utilization for LPARs that are not included in the set of SMF records that were provided.
- I wish the axis labels were a lot larger, so my old eyes could read them.
- I would love the ability to easily import and export report definitions from one IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS instance to another.
- I would love to be able to see which SMF fields were used for each of the values that IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS provides.
- I would love to be able to create a report containing metrics from more than one IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS table.
Return on Investment
- It has been great. It dramatically improves our efficiency, and our clients love the reports that it helps us deliver.
Very satisfied with Vision for z/OS
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Monitoring and improving our storage environment (disk and tape). Identifying potential problems at an early stage. Identifying trends in the use of resources.
Pros
- The information from Vision is input for our monthly reports.
- It helps us decide on the purchase of new hardware.
- Provide clear graphical overviews of disk and tape usage, performance and deviations.
Cons
- Expand with functionalities for z/VM and Linux for Z.
- Perhaps an app for mobile devices?
Most Important Features
- It saves us a lot of work in collecting and editing metadata about our storage environment.
Return on Investment
- Based on data from Vision, we have not had to expand the hardware this year.
- Any expansion of hardware in the coming years can be well supported by figures from Vision.
Alternatives Considered
IBM OMEGAMON
Other Software Used
Splunk Enterprise
IntelliMagic Beats The Rest Except For One Limitation
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for capacity planning and general knowledge about our systems; how they're running, common issues, how we can improve performance, etc. So far IntelliMagic has [been] very helpful when it comes to see[ing] long term trends and new problems we are starting to see as a result of growth. The ability to dive deep into the graphs is something that is provided only by IntelliMagic, no other monitoring software, real-time or not, has that ability.
Pros
- Deep Dive
- Long Term Trends
- Potential Issues and Current Issues with zOS
Cons
- Real Time/Near Real Time Data Ingestion/Processing
Most Important Features
- Long Term Trends
- Deep Dive into the Data
Return on Investment
- Positive but I can't provide any hard numbers
Alternatives Considered
Elasticsearch and Splunk Enterprise
Other Software Used
Elasticsearch, Splunk Enterprise, BMC MainView
