Former employer used T-MON to track CICS and z/OS. Maybe even a
bit of DB2 (wasn't my area).
We also used TPM (Thru Put Manager) which gave info as to, for
example, when it projected our hitting Caps (hard or soft as I
recall). It also controlled how many jobs a particular user could
have running at a time and the like (I didn't support that one,
but I appreciated what all it could do).
There were two other products that I had to help support, and now
can't remember the name of either of them, but the one was out of
Israel. I think it was Gadi Ben-avi supported that one (or they
have similar names).
So the PCM group, had different tools used by different ones of
us for watching the systems. And we had some tools for watching
DB2, but that was all handled by the DBA that was part of the group.
And we also had SPLUNK, but I never touched it. I was more of a
tactical tuner person playing whack-a-mole.
And the manager of the group had this feed the big display that
"C" level managers looked at.
We also used SAS (native) for certain discrete reports along with
MICS and MXG to process SMF and other items. Come to think of it,
I produced a report mixed with REXX and COBOL to show how far (in
%) we were in migrating the "old" COBOL to COBOL6.x
Hope this helps and gets a few others to talk about their tools
for Performance and Capacity planning|management.
Lastly, we were also running z/VM so we used Velocity for
reporting with it, and alerting, etc.
Steve Thompson
On 4/28/2024 4:41 PM, Steve Estle wrote:
Hello all you smart seasoned ZOS vets out there.
We all know that ZOS contains a vast landscape of key mission critical applications
and components running 7x24x365. I'm quite curious about this sujbect having spent
a considerable time of my career in the performance / capacity arena. But what I
am most curious about is whether anyone out there has either developed or knows of
a very robust homegrown ZOS mgmt / executive health dashboard out there? Possibly
you did something with SAS/MXG or other toolsets (REXX, open source, etc.)? I'm
envisioning something that might have red, yellow, green sections that inspects
data for ZOS ranging from SLA's, syslog, SMF data, performance data (response
times, batch cycle completions, etc.), storage usage data, security data and have
it all rollup into single view that is adaptable to a particular environment (not
tied to anyone product - so for instance in security whatever solutions should be
ubiquitous whether running RACF, Top Secret, or ACF2). I know there are paid for
tools as well and if you don't have anything homegrown maybe you have a favorite
one of those that doesn't cost arm & leg? - possibly something open source that
is easily adaptable.
There is no right or wrong answer here but wanted to just throw this out there
to gather everyone's collective experiences, thoughts, and best ideas.
May the games (I mean ideations) begin.
Thanks,
Steve Estle
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