Unlock Continuous Availability for your Application Infrastructure

Today’s global, 24/7 economy demands business applications to offer continuous availability (zero service disruptions), but a lack of critical visibility into and understanding of the IT infrastructure makes this difficult to achieve.

IntelliMagic Vision empowers mainframe sites to prevent service disruptions before they occur and utilize measurement data insights to lower costs and optimize business applications.

        
    

        
    

Lower Your Mainframe Costs and Optimize Your Application Infrastructure

Reduce Downtime

Automated site health and risk detection flags upcoming hidden bottlenecks, configuration errors and anomalies before symptoms hurt service levels or bring down applications

Lower Costs

Easily optimize your workloads and site configuration to lower CPU consumption. Rebalance workloads and applications to postpone or avoid new hardware purchases

Accelerate Training

Utilize an intuitive and interactive interface with built-in best-practice thresholds and recommendations to accelerate new hire and cross-platform training

Take Control of Your Mainframe with Interactive Insights and Customizable Reports

Risk Detection and Health Insights Automatically Summarize the Health of Your Entire System

zOS Health Insights with Explainable AI

Prevent potential risks to availability and performance with built-in artificial intelligence automatically assessing more than 700 key z/OS metrics and using thresholds derived from built-in expert domain knowledge.

The easily consumable view shown here assesses the overall health of all CICS regions, leveraging user defined CICSGROUPs to enable exceptions from among hundreds of regions to be quickly identified and proactively addressed.

Automated z/OS Anomaly Detection and Statistical Analysis

WLM Importance Rating Change Detection

Statistically significant changes in key metrics are highlighted in Change Detection views. Variations that exceed + or – 2 standard deviations between the current day and the prior 30 days are highlighted.

This can enable you to get an early jump on changes that may have a sustained impact, such as this example of increased CPU consumed by highest dispatching priority System work.

Completely Interactive GUI with Intuitive Visibility into SMF Data

Intuitive Visibility into SMF Data

In contrast to approaches today that require coding programs or mastering tooling siloed by technology to access various types of SMF data, a common, intuitive user interface eliminates effort spent mining data and instead frees up staff to focus entirely on high-value analysis.

This single interface used across the entire z/OS platform greatly expedites learning, promotes collaboration, and enhances analytical effectiveness.

Dynamic Report Customization with Robust Editing Options

Dynamic zOS Report Customization

Advanced report customization capabilities facilitate quick ad hoc analysis without requiring programming or complicated steps and enable data to be viewed in the manner best suited to the current inquiry.

In this example, transaction rate is added to a response time chart to evaluate possible correlation. Numerous intuitive customization options including report type, summarization level, filtering, and interval comparisons.

Accelerate Problem Resolution with Context Sensitive Drill Downs

Context Sensitive Drill Downs -

Context sensitive drill downs enable an analyst to identify alternative analytical paths based on the data currently being displayed and quickly investigate each hypothesis with just a few clicks, greatly reducing lost time when exploring what ends up being a “dead-end” path.

When dealing with massive SMF data volumes, this capability to focus analysis on the desired subset of data becomes especially valuable.

Easily Create, Share, and Export Customized Dashboards for Any Situation

Customized Mainframe Shared Dashboards

Customizable dashboards collect and display at a glance live views of any collection of reports and metrics of interest to you. When shared within your organization simply and securely via URL, they promote collaboration and provide a common truth for an entire organization.

Users can expand any report and leverage drill down capabilities to pursue further analysis of metrics they find of interest.

AIOps via SaaS Delivery

Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) icon

Advantages to adopting a cloud model include rapid implementation (no lead time to install and setup the product locally), minimal setup (only for transmitting SMF data), offloading staff resources required to deal with SMF processing issues or to install product maintenance, and easy access to IntelliMagic consulting services to supplement local skills.

Risk Detection and Health Insights Automatically Summarize the Health of Your Entire System

zOS Health Insights with Explainable AI

Prevent potential risks to availability and performance with built-in artificial intelligence automatically assessing more than 700 key z/OS metrics and using thresholds derived from built-in expert domain knowledge.

The easily consumable view shown here assesses the overall health of all CICS regions, leveraging user defined CICSGROUPs to enable exceptions from among hundreds of regions to be quickly identified and proactively addressed.

Automated z/OS Anomaly Detection and Statistical Analysis

WLM Importance Rating Change Detection

Statistically significant changes in key metrics are highlighted in Change Detection views. Variations that exceed + or – 2 standard deviations between the current day and the prior 30 days are highlighted.

This can enable you to get an early jump on changes that may have a sustained impact, such as this example of increased CPU consumed by highest dispatching priority System work.

Completely Interactive GUI with Intuitive Visibility into SMF Data

Intuitive Visibility into SMF Data

In contrast to approaches today that require coding programs or mastering tooling siloed by technology to access various types of SMF data, a common, intuitive user interface eliminates effort spent mining data and instead frees up staff to focus entirely on high-value analysis.

This single interface used across the entire z/OS platform greatly expedites learning, promotes collaboration, and enhances analytical effectiveness.

Dynamic Report Customization with Robust Editing Options

Dynamic zOS Report Customization

Advanced report customization capabilities facilitate quick ad hoc analysis without requiring programming or complicated steps and enable data to be viewed in the manner best suited to the current inquiry.

In this example, transaction rate is added to a response time chart to evaluate possible correlation. Numerous intuitive customization options including report type, summarization level, filtering, and interval comparisons.

Accelerate Problem Resolution with Context Sensitive Drill Downs

Context Sensitive Drill Downs -

Context sensitive drill downs enable an analyst to identify alternative analytical paths based on the data currently being displayed and quickly investigate each hypothesis with just a few clicks, greatly reducing lost time when exploring what ends up being a “dead-end” path.

When dealing with massive SMF data volumes, this capability to focus analysis on the desired subset of data becomes especially valuable.

Easily Create, Share, and Export Customized Dashboards for Any Situation

Customized Mainframe Shared Dashboards

Customizable dashboards collect and display at a glance live views of any collection of reports and metrics of interest to you. When shared within your organization simply and securely via URL, they promote collaboration and provide a common truth for an entire organization.

Users can expand any report and leverage drill down capabilities to pursue further analysis of metrics they find of interest.

AIOps via SaaS Delivery

Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) icon

Advantages to adopting a cloud model include rapid implementation (no lead time to install and setup the product locally), minimal setup (only for transmitting SMF data), offloading staff resources required to deal with SMF processing issues or to install product maintenance, and easy access to IntelliMagic consulting services to supplement local skills.

Game Changing Visibility into Your Entire End-to-End z/OS Infrastructure

zSystems Performance Management

Optimize z/OS Mainframe Systems Management with Availability Intelligence

Benefits

Optimize z/OS Systems performance management using AI-driven analytics to proactively monitor and manage your z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, reduce costs, and preserve the reliability and availability that mainframes are known for.
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Db2 Performance Management

Prevent Availability Risks and Optimize Db2 Performance

Benefits

The volume and complexity of Db2 Statistics data and Db2 Accounting data creates a major challenge for analysts who want to derive value from the rich metrics available.
Easy visibility into key Db2 metrics through SMF records is crucial to proactively prevent availability risks and to effectively manage and optimize performance.
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CICS Performance Management

Monitor and Profile CICS Transactions and Regions with IntelliMagic Vision

Benefits

CICS SMF Transaction data is a rich source of performance insights, but its volume can make analysis challenging using traditional approaches that rely on static reports. Proactive assessment of key Statistics metrics across all regions is essential to identify potential risks to availability.
IntelliMagic Vision enables performance analysts to manage and optimize their z/OS CICS transactions more effectively and efficiently, as well as proactively assess the health of their CICS regions.
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Virtual Tape Performance Management

Proactively Manage Virtual and Physical Tape Environments

Benefits

With tape virtualization, tape storage became easier and more economical, but at the same time, more difficult to understand which changes or hardware upgrades are the best choices. With tape libraries being shared across multiple z/OS images, the full picture can only be obtained by aggregating workload and tape hardware information from all z/OS LPARs.
IntelliMagic Vision enables performance analysts to manage and optimize their z/OS Virtual Tape environments more effectively and efficiently.
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Disk & Replication Performance Management

Automatically Detect Storage Performance Risks & Quickly Resolve Issues

Benefits

As Disk speeds and throughputs have increased, z/OS applications have come to rely on fast and consistent storage performance. To respond quickly to unexpected disk and replication issues, it is essential that you have insight into the health of the various components in your storage environment.
IntelliMagic Vision enables performance analysts to manage and optimize their z/OS Disk and Replication environment more effectively and efficiently.
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MQ Performance Management

Optimize and Analyze MQ Activity and Performance

Benefits

MQ is widely used across z/OS environments, but sites often find it challenging to derive the valuable performance insights potentially available from MQ SMF Statistics and Accounting data due to limitations in existing reporting and available tooling.
IntelliMagic Vision enables performance analysts to manage and optimize their z/OS MQ configurations and activity more effectively and efficiently, as well as proactively assess the health of their queue managers.
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z/OS Network Performance Management

Automatically Monitor Mainframe Network Security and Protect Your Data

Benefits

TCP/IP is the core of the communication for the z/OS mainframe, both for traffic into and out of the mainframe and internal communication among z/OS images and processor complexes. Proper management is necessary to secure and protect system availability.
IntelliMagic Vision automatically generates GUI-based, interactive, IBM best-practice compliant rated reports that proactively identify areas that indicate potential upcoming risk to TCP/IP health, performance, and security.
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z/OS Connect: Modern Mainframe API Environment

Optimizing Mainframe API Monitoring for Improved Resource Management

Benefits

IntelliMagic Vision enhances mainframe API monitoring and profiling, providing crucial visibility to address issues at the API or service level, ultimately aiding performance analysts in better resource planning and management reporting.
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See Why IntelliMagic is Trusted by Some of the World’s Largest Mainframe Sites

IntelliMagic [Vision for z/OS] does a great job of collecting and reporting on z/OS performance. We could not do without it when bringing in new hardware and needing to look at current performance to determine future needs
Anonymous-02 | Banking Company
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Using IntelliMagic helps our teams optimize our mainframe infrastructure solutions to support our mission-critical business applications
Anonymous-04 | Insurance Company
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It's one of the best products we found at the offering to help us in reporting for our mainframe environment
Anonymous-06 | Financial Services Company
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Compared to other software houses, IntelliMagic reacts quickly and competently. In the event of errors, we have interim solutions and corrections were often made available within a few weeks
Walter Auerochs | DATEV
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Using IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS helps me to choose areas for optimization and also aids me in understanding how to configure for the future
Loretta Cyr | The Hartford
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IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS support is first class. The 'IntelliMagicians' are both experts in the use of their product AND experts in the data that is being reported on. They have many years of experience, excellent relationships with their customers, and a real enthusiasm for analyzing and understanding what is happening in the z/OS systems they are analyzing. We couldn't ask for better partners
Frank Kyne | Watson & Walker
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