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ASG-TMON for CICS TS for z/OS
for Management of CICS Transaction Server Performance

ASG-TMON for CICS TS for z/OS helps data center managers and system programmers quickly respond, identify, and resolve CICS problems. It effectively reduces costly application downtime, improving transaction throughput and identifying problems affecting application performance. With ASG-TMON for CICS TS for z/OS, performance analysts and capacity planners can identify trends, improve application throughput, and plan for growth, which often enables organizations to avoid costly upgrade charges.

Product Features
  • Supports IBM's latest release of CICS Transaction Server (TS), which provides support for business-critical applications in the z/OS environment
  • Enables monitoring and performance management of applications using DB2, Web-enabling technologies, WebSphere MQ, and IMS within the CICS environment
  • Offers significant Service-Level Management (SLM) reporting features, reduced resource consumption, more granular applications monitoring, and improved availability
  • Identifies and resolves performance issues before outages occur
  • Monitors all aspects of CICS using exception and alert processing
  • Establishes the thresholds that trigger electronic, audible, and visual advance warnings, enabling automated and immediate action to avoid possible outages
  • Monitors and manage CICS Enterprise Health through a GUI from the Enterprise Console of ASG-NaviPlex
  • User Interfaces: 3270 and 3270 style Web Browser
  • Includes CICS Operations Management features and alert notification
  • Includes an alert interface to ASG-NaviPlex and third-party products which can then issue WTO, SNMP, e-mail, and text message alerts
  • Provides critical information for tuning and debugging CICS systems and applications
  • Provides extensive information on resource consumption
  • Traces each transaction's performance by CICS event and related unit of work
  • Provides online and batch historical reporting for short- and long-term trend analysis, capacity planning, chargeback, and performance management
  • Includes a standard report writer for historical reporting and long-term trend analysis along with SAS layouts for custom reporting
  • Integrates with third-party performance management tools from Merrill Consultants, Computer Associates,  BMC Software, and PACE Applied Technologies KOMAND, and Software AG
  • Exports ASG-TMON CICS TS performance data via batch utility in comma-delimited format (CSV) to ASG and third-party products
  • Provides seamless integration with relevant information in other ASG-TMON products for faster and easier problem diagnosis and resolution