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We offer mainframe education and consulting services. For the education side of our business, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is ideal …
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IntelliMagic Vision's AI-driven analytics enables z/OS experts to proactively monitor and manage their end-to-end z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, optimize performance, improve support for new applications, reduce software costs, eliminate unnecessary hardware purchases, and preserve…
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What is IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS?
IntelliMagic Vision's AI-driven analytics enables z/OS experts to proactively
monitor and manage their end-to-end z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, optimize
performance, improve support for new applications, reduce software costs, eliminate unnecessary hardware purchases, and
preserve the reliability and availability that mainframes are known for.
IntelliMagic Vision enhances the RMF and SMF data and applies its built-in knowledge to understand how the z/OS architecture handles workloads. This helps to tune z/OS to improve performance and protect availability, and can also help tuning the processor configuration to increase the MIPS of the mainframe hardware.
According to the vendor, using its expert built-in analytics, IntelliMagic Vision provides an early warning system that automatically identifies issues to service availability before they occur, so performance analysts can quickly and easily prevent performance issues.
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Features
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: MLC Cost Optimizer
- Supported: Rated Metrics and Prioritized Issues in a Single Frame
- Supported: Intuitive Graphical User Interface with Easy Drilldowns
- Supported: Dynamic Thresholds
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| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 0% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 100% |
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, DACH |
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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.
- 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'.
- 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.
February 08, 2022
The data I've always wanted, now available at my finger tips
I use IntelliMagic Vision to analyze the peaks of mainframe cpu usage. IntelliMagic Vision has helped me to find opportunities to reduce cpu usage by focusing on key days of the month and key hours. Some of the reports have uncovered things I was simply not aware of. When there are many things that could be addressed it is helpful to see what will have the most impact.
- Allows engineers to search by whatever SMF data is relevant at that point in time
- Saves your past searches and allows you to refine them without needing to start over.
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February 03, 2022
Very satisfied with Vision for z/OS
Monitoring and improving our storage environment (disk and tape). Identifying potential problems at an early stage. Identifying trends in the use of resources.
- 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.
- Expand with functionalities for z/VM and Linux for Z.
- Perhaps an app for mobile devices?
Used for daily monitoring of z/OS CPU utilization and fact finding on capacity and trending for future capacity needs. Also used to identify potential tuning opportunities within both applications and infrastructure.
- Ease of creating reports
- Organization of metrics
- Full array of metrics available
- Easy to understand and interpret reports
- Logic for specific selection of items is confusing (i.e., job id =1234 or 2345 and job class = Y)
January 09, 2022
IntelliMagic Beats The Rest Except For One Limitation
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.
- Deep Dive
- Long Term Trends
- Potential Issues and Current Issues with zOS
- Real Time/Near Real Time Data Ingestion/Processing
January 06, 2022
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review
We use [IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] to provide information for our mainframe disk environments. [IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] provides many reports to help us understand our disk performance activity. This insures that we provide the best response time to the mainframe. It also provide us insight to capacity planning as well.
- Provide dashboards
- Report on I/O activity
- Provide color codes for problem areas
- Maybe - solutions based on problems [IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] detected
January 05, 2022
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review
IntelliMagic [Vision for z/OS] is used for performance and sizing requirements when bringing in new DASD subsystems. It is also used to identify potential performance problems on existing hardware.
- Data collection
- Identification of [the] problem(s)
- Reporting
- [In my opinion,] it [can be] hard to find the exact chart you are needing sometimes.
January 05, 2022
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review
For several years now I have been having bi-weekly, specialized one-on-one training [sessions] with John Baker [from IntelliMagic] with the emphasis on DASD. We usually walk through [any] issues that I have encountered and he keeps me abreast of new technologies and improvements of the product. When it comes to IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS product, John's knowledge is unparalleled. I enjoy working [with] him and look forward to our meetings.
- Determining equipment usage and shelf life
- Problem diagnostics
- Daily trending
- [I] don't really have anything negative to say.
December 08, 2021
Big fan of Intellimagic!
Intellimagic provides software as [service] delivery of our mainframe performance data. Using intuitive customizable screens and dashboards all available metrics are available for trending, comparison, or detailed analysis.
- Comparison of current charts with relevant historical charts (i.e., this Monday vs. Last Monday).
- Starting with general charts and drilling into detail.
- Providing a single intuitive interface to all of your data.
- 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.
December 08, 2021
Helps DATEV with capacity planning and performance management to improve our business objectives
Decades in the past, we implemented our performance analyses ourselves with RMF reports and our own consolidation programs. Some skills are retired and we looked for performance reporting tools. We attended performance courses at IntelliMagic and were very impressed by the skills of the speakers and the tool. In addition to intuitive operation, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS offers standard reports that can be easily adapted to your own requirements. The rating of analyses with the expert knowledge of IntelliMagic are important. Also explanations about the source of the data and the calculations are available on each report. We started with a test installation of the DASD analyses and then decided to use them. Then we gradually expanded the functions (system, CF, XCF, MQ, TCP/IP and tape). This year Db2 was added and we have replaced and optimized SAS programs with IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS. IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS helps experts and beginners at DATEV better understand and improve performance and also configuration details.
- 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
- Most enhancement requests to IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS were implemented really fast.
- Collections and dashboards (private and shared). "Change All" of Date/Time ranges or filters to collections and/or dashboards would help.
- We changed from daily data processing to hourly data processing (near realtime). More granular intervals are desirable.
October 18, 2021
The Best Mainframe Performance and Capacity Tool on the Planet
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is being used at our organization to better monitor and manage/tune our non-prod and production mainframe WLM, z/OS systems, DB2, CICS, MQ, Disk, Virtual Tape, and FICON Director resources. IntelliMagic is used by our systems programmers, capacity and performance engineers, DB2 systems programmers, CICS/MQ technicians, and Storage Management (disk and tape) engineers in our mainframe infrastructure teams. Using IntelliMagic helps our teams optimize our mainframe infrastructure solutions to support our mission-critical business applications. Our organization's mission is to do everything we can to service our members, healthcare providers, and business partners.
- Provides comprehensive Health Check and Exception reporting of mainframe resources.
- As a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud solution, IntelliMagic Vision allows our infrastructure engineers to use the tool to manage our resources - rather than managing the installation/customization, and upgrade of the tool itself.
- IntelliMagic allows our organization to build on the wealth of IBM's SMF statistical data, providing a 'force multiplier' effect that empowers our organization's technical staff to learn much more about the resources they're responsible for managing simply by using the tool's intuitive navigational interface.
- IntelliMagic improves our mainframe infrastructure team's productivity and collaboration/cohesiveness through shared dashboard technology.
- We've uncovered a few bugs in more-complex calculations in a few reports in IntelliMagic Vision that we've needed the vendor to address.
- We've experienced minor issues with having to occasionally retransmit (FTP) our statistical data to IntelliMagic's cloud servers.
- Periodically, we've experienced "lags" in the turnaround time from when our SMF statistical data is cut, to the time we're able to view the data in the IntelliMagic Vision tool.
- The quality of the downloadable/exported reporting charts from IntelliMagic Vision needs to be improved to the point we'd feel comfortable with using those report images in executive leadership PowerPoint presentations. The image quality of IntelliMagic Vision graphs/charts needs to be comparable to those we can produce in MS Excel.
August 25, 2021
I am pleased to review IntelliMagic Vision and how it has helped Black Knight stay ahead of mainframe performance and protect SLAs.
We rely on IntelliMagic [Vision for z/OS] to get a broad view of mainframe performance metrics. It is used by capacity planners, storage administrators and architects to trend performance, troubleshoot problems using an easy yet comprehensive user interface.
- Summarizes performance
- Can scale time
- Visualization
- Flexibility of reporting
- Provides useful narratives to describe what you are seeing
- VSAM/RLS reporting of Directory Reclaims - this activity is normal in VSAM/RLS but the narrative applies to DB2 not VSAM/RLS cache structures
- SMF82 record reporting is not supported