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IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

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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…

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10 out of 10
March 04, 2024
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Product Details

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.

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.

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

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

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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IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Competitors

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Rocket TMON, BMC AMI Ops, and Tivoli Monitoring (legacy) are common alternatives for IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS.

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

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

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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is a fantastic tool used by our team to make strategic decisions when it comes to performance or capacity changes within our environment. IntelliMagic has become a tool we use every day and is simple to use. We use it to check the status of everything within the CEC to DASD and Tape.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 26, 2022

An invaluable tool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use IntelliMagic Vision to provide reports/graphs on utilization and identify top targets for tuning or realignment based on peak 4HRA.
The key business problem the product addresses is Mainframe cost containment/avoidance, either thru identifying Mainframe tuning inefficiencies or avoiding batch contention during peak utilization periods.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Loretta Cyr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
James Schlosser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Walter Auerochs | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
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