Likelihood to Recommend WebSphere DataPower Gateway is really beneficial if you are trying to integrate two or more systems. It provides you with comfort and peace of mind by creating a DMZ zone for the services which are going out of the intranet to hit external clients APIs. It is greatly recommended if you have a very high volume service or API which is being used by a majority of clients because it has a dedicated physical box present which takes care of memory, CPU and all such stuff. So, all your transactions happen at wire-speed.
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IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is perfect for just about any after-the-fact analysis that I have tried to use it for. Sometimes it doesn't provide support for the latest SMF fields, but that is the nature of SMF data analysis - it is impossible to keep up with the rate at which new SMF fields are added. Combine that with the fact that the description of new fields is often poor, and it is amazing that IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is as up-to-date as it is. I think that less experienced users might benefit from material that more clearly differentiates products like IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, which feed off SMF data, and products like Omegamon, which report in real-time contents of various system control blocks.
Read full review Pros The most obvious thing that DataPower does exceptionally well is security. All the built-in supported security capabilities allow us to isolate most security tasks to DataPower and as a result "protect" down steam services/systems to have to deal with security. DataPower is very good at protocol conversion and as it is usually used on the edge allows you to narrow down the protocols used between the companies public and private networks. The appliance concept makes maintenance, recovery and, management so much simpler. Read full review IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is easy to use for beginners and experts. Search and drill down helps to find overview and deep dive. IntelliMagic has implemented expert knowledge into Vision and the rating of the report is really helpful. Predefined reports can be modified very easily and individually adapted reports (replacement of old SAS programs) are also possible without any problems Read full review Cons The old interface is being really missed by our team as the new WebUI interface is not that intuitive or easy to work with. It takes a lot of time to load. There should be an inbuilt wizard for creating a Rest service as well like there is for an XML based service. IBM support is very knowledgeable but it's not that easy to reach them. They don't release the fix patches very soon which also becomes a big issue in certain situations where critical projects are involved. Lastly, DataPower has its steep learning curve and it requires time and effort on your end to gain full control and make the most of the advanced features which it offers. Finding the right resource in the market is not that easy. Read full review IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
The voluminous data is a challenge for all tools. As always, improved response time is always appreciated. I really appreciate reading the descriptions and field descriptions that are provided with the screens. All additional elaborations will be appreciated. Monthly trending and cyclical pattern detection Read full review Likelihood to Renew Cost of the appliance
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In comparison to other products (even on IBM Z), IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is really RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability). The GUI is really stable; analyze/reduce jobs with detailed diagnostics; restart functions with Automator
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with more than 12 years of experience in Mainframe performance tuning and analysis, it was much easier to translate and understand the tool. New college grads without Mainframe exposure struggled a bit to connect the dots, it might be good to have a recording from IM to go through mainframe basics before the staff start to use the tool covering mainframe concepts than tool itself.
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Really highly skilled IntelliMagic team:
Head of IntelliMagic (Gilbert Houtekamer, Els Das and Jean-Marc van der Kolk) Account manager DACH/Europe local support team ... Read full review Alternatives Considered IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
These are the legacy products that have been used for capacity/performance/billing and report generation over many years. Some are better suited for solutions using programmatic interfaces ( internal billing ), and processing IMS transactional data in particular. For most tasks, however, Vision can generate charts, provide levels of drill-down, allow a focus on analysis rather than report generation, much faster with greater reliability and less required training than the above products
Read full review Return on Investment It has really taken our business to the next level. We have expanded and integrated with so many new vendors and for all those integrations DataPower is serving as our security gateway. We don't have to depend on any other tool for doing the load balancing of the incoming requests as that is also taken care inside the WebSphere DataPower Gateway box itself, thereby distributing the load equally. It has made our platform much more secure, uniform and robust to deal with any kind of incoming message format or threat as well due to its latest security mechanisms and huge processing power. Read full review IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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. Read full review ScreenShots IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Screenshots