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What is IBM Z 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…
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What is IBM Z 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.
Boasting 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.
IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Features
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: MLC Cost Optimizer
- Supported: Rated Metrics and Prioritized Issues in a Single Frame
- Supported: Graphical User Interface with Easy Drilldowns
- Supported: Dynamic Thresholds
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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, DACH |
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| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 100% |
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August 15, 2023
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS on a daily basis job of looking at bottleneck and performance problems. Also, for a better design and understanding of our environment. They have been helping us a lot in the post-mortem analysis.
- Storage Bottleneck
- Drill downs
- Correlations analysis
- Tape performance
- New IBM Boxes
- Better reports about switches and directors, mainly about SAN
- Better understanding of HDS hardware
- Faster resolution
- Mitigate crisis and system downtimes
- Better utilization of hardware
- Knowhedgment about infrastructure
December 08, 2021
Helps DATEV with capacity planning and performance management to improve our business objectives
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- Ad-hoc analysis with drill down
- Planning with trend and comparison charts (with days, weeks, month, ... in the past)
- Automator (incoming data is processed automatically)
- Each (modern) web-browser can be used
- No software installation needed (for end user)
- One modern UI/GUI for all IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS components
- We have rewritten/modernized old programs (SAS) and integrated them into IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS.
- We can assess the effects of changes (based on IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS analytics)
RMF Spreadsheet Reporter, RMF XML Toolkit, RMF Performance Monitor, EasySMF for z/OS, Interactive z/OS, SMF Reports on your PC, Spectrum SMF Writer APT ... all these products have subsets of functionality. IIntelliMagic Vision for z/OS operates all parts in a uniform interface. This means that everyone can find a simple way to look into other components of IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS.
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Approx. 100 users are authorized to use IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS. Approx. 10 users are power users. The other users are on-demand users or they use IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS in special situations or for special interests.
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One person is doing the product upgrades (with one backup for vacation, etc). Windows, Application, configuration, MSSQL-user One person has designed and implemented the data collection and transfer JOBs (now automated at JOB scheduling). z/OS, JCL, ... Some more users are responsible for reporting sections like DASD, CPU, Tape, Db2, ... specific product knowhow
- Performance planning, management, and reporting
- Capacity planning and reporting
- Health check across all components (dashboard)
- Easy to use for beginners and experts
- Deep dive for experts
- Normal way: use existing reports and do some modifcations
- Create new reports from scratch to replace old SAS programs
- More correlations between different products (components of IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS)
- Use/license CICS
I've no idea if IntelliMagic offers standard support and/or premium support. I'm really happy with our actual support.
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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.
In the event of a migration to a new version, a highly qualified support employee was available to us via video conference. Action plans were discussed and questions were professionally answered.
October 18, 2021
The Best Mainframe Performance and Capacity Tool on the Planet
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- We acquired IntelliMagic Vision licensing to improve the maturity of monitoring for key domains in the mainframe environment: Visibility to health of key areas – CICS/MQ, DB2, Storage, z/OS and WLM
- Mitigating major dependencies on vendors (IBM, Hitachi, Dell etc.) during key outages.
- Improves our ability to produce executive dashboards & insights on the health of mainframe domains.
- Improves our comprehensive performance and capacity predictive capabilities across all mainframe domains.
- Provides a force multiplier effect for the performance and capacity team by technological compensation for the impact of mainframe skill gaps, accelerated learning for new team members, and enhanced collaboration and sharing, allowing more time to be spent on analysis and remediation.
- The “force multiplier effect” is provided by building expert knowledge and statistical processing into IntelliMagic Vision, and presenting key metrics to users through an advanced, interactive interface that promotes a deep-dive analytical user experience
- IntelliMagic Vison's strength is in historical performance monitoring with near real-time (NRT) reporting capabilities using intuitive health indicators (red, yellow, green), drill-down capabilities, and problem avoidance through predictive insights.
- IntelliMagic Vision provides excellent on-board context-sensitive technical information - staff learns about cross-domain technologies while actively monitoring systems with the tool.
- In addition to addressing our greatest mainframe management challenges, as the overall mainframe talent pool diminishes over time, the need for the semi-automated mainframe performance and capacity capabilities IntelliMagic Vision provides will only continue to increase.
- Better Ease of Use/Navigation/Intuitiveness.
- Better Customizable Reporting/Filtering.
- Better In-tool Context-Sensitive Help/Educational Capabilities.
- Better High-Level Health Check and Exception Reporting.
- Better Root Cause Analytics/Drill-down Capabilities.
- Better Predictive Analytics/Disruption Avoidance