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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

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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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March 04, 2024
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Employee in Information Technology
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees
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Fabio Pereira
Storage Specialist
BANCO DO BRASIL (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
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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…

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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

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Screenshots

Screenshot of Coupling Facility Health by ApplicationScreenshot of Prioritized list of all Warnings and Exceptions for Workload Manager and LPARScreenshot of Changes can be compared before/after custom time ranges with dynamic filtersScreenshot of Built-in anomaly detection identifies (statistically significant) zOS workload changes and alerts usersScreenshot of Custom dashboards can be built, edited, customized, and shared with sets of dynamic, interactive reports to group reports setsScreenshot of Users can view, interact with, and drill down into zOS Topology - compare topology changes over time

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Videos

z/OS Systems infrastructure is critical to ensuring availability for end-users, but too often performance analysts are using monitoring tools or methods that are reactive rather than proactive. IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Systems provides performance management for z/OS Syste...
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An application will use most parts of the infrastructure. If something is not working right, a solution should provide integrated visibility across all parts of the infrastructure to identify and diagnose the issue. Using different interfaces for different parts of the infrast...
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Of all the systems in the data center, z/OS produces performance and configuration data in the form of RMF and SMF. But most sites still use a four decades old process that generates hundreds of static reports requiring cumbersome manual interpretation by deep experts. Consequ...
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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, DACH

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Reviewers rate Vendor post-sale highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)0%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)100%
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March 04, 2024

Big fan of Intellimagic!

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
  • Anomaly Detection based on thresholds
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Intellimagic is great for organizations [onboarding] junior staff OR for organizations with skilled experts simply trying to do more with less labor.
Return on Investment
  • Intellimagic allows support staff to gain a deeper understanding of the environment. This is applicable to both junior and senior staff.
Usability
10
Intellimagic provides a very consistent user interface/experience. This consistency makes it easier to learn and use.
Post-Sale Experience
10
My interaction with support at Intellimagic meets all of my demanding expectations. Professionalism is a company wide commitment.
Alternatives Considered
There are many products that leverage mainframe performance data, each with pros and cons. Intellimagic is valuable for many uses cases that overlap with the other tools simply because the graphical representations are readily consumable by many audiences.
January 18, 2023

The Magic to mainframe reporting

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
This became a game changing product for us. We have been using traditional SAS/MXG to create PDB's and pull the reports which use to take tons of time, with IntelliMagic we are more focused on tunning and analysis then cleansing SMF data to create reports.
Pros and Cons
  • Reduction in SMF processing time
  • predictive capability to avoid any outages related to infrastructure
  • long term trending ability
  • forecasting ability
  • Billing comparison options
  • Alternate products with the pricing options
Likelihood to Recommend
More time spent on performance tuning and analysis than creating PDB's. In house requires an additional windows support team to help the product,
Return on Investment
  • preventive measure
  • reduced costs
  • Addressed multiple performance issues
Usability
8
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.
Post-Sale Experience
10
IM has a great sales and support team; they are readily available for any questions and issues we had with the product.
Alternatives Considered
It's one of the best products we found at the offering to help us in reporting for our mainframe environment
October 18, 2021

The Best Mainframe Performance and Capacity Tool on the Planet

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is an excellent comprehensive mainframe reporting tool that can ingest raw SMF/RMF statistical data, tape management configuration (TMC) data, DCOLLECT data, and proprietary ISV SMF data (Hitachi Mainframe Analytics Reporter SMF records, Oracle VSM SMF data) unlike any other product on the market. The reporting capabilities of IntelliMagic Vision is also best-in-class across all mainframe domains. No other historical mainframe reporting tool in the market can compete with IntelliMagic vision in terms of health/exception reporting, the "Change Detection" reporting - i.e., the ability to compare performance data across data points in statistical terms, and in terms of easy-to-use out-of-the-box (OTB) reports, as well as user-customizable reporting capabilities.

IntelliMagic Vision is not a 'real-time' reporter such as Omegamon in that IntelliMagic consumes IBM SMF/RMF data that is DUMPd of SMF log streams, compressed, and FTPd to IntelliMagic's cloud server environment. However, IntelliMagic Vision can be considered as a 'near real-time' reporting facility - as long as the client installation can build the necessary automated infrastructure to "feed" their statistical data to IntelliMagic over several shorter (e.g., 1/2-hour or one-hour) intervals. Our typical turnaround time is about 1.5 hours from the time we create/cut statistical data to the time we can see the statistical reports based on that data in the tool - sometime that lag is even less than 1.5 hours.
Most Important Features
  • 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
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
  1. Better Ease of Use/Navigation/Intuitiveness.
  2. Better Customizable Reporting/Filtering.
  3. Better In-tool Context-Sensitive Help/Educational Capabilities.
  4. Better High-Level Health Check and Exception Reporting.
  5. Better Root Cause Analytics/Drill-down Capabilities.
  6. Better Predictive Analytics/Disruption Avoidance
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