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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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10 out of 10
March 04, 2024
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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees
FP
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.
August 15, 2023

IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review

FP
Fabio Pereira
Storage Specialist
BANCO DO BRASIL (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
I give them a 10 our of 10. IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is a unique software doing what it does so well; there is no other on the market.
Return on Investment
  • Faster resolution
  • Mitigate crisis and system downtimes
  • Better utilization of hardware
  • Knowhedgment about infrastructure
Usability
9
I give them a 9 out of 10 for z/OS infrastructure management. I am an advanced user, and IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS meets all my requirements for the tool.
Post-Sale Experience
10
I give IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS a 10 out of 10 because they have very smart and competent people on the support side. They always help me with my problems and questions and also the vendor has addressed all enhancements and new features we have asked for.
February 23, 2023

IntelliMagic Has Got It All

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Creating customized reports
  • Exporting reports
  • Granularity
  • A better graphical representation of system setup
Likelihood to Recommend
More appropriate to keep an eye on the system. It might not be LIVE but it is a great tool to look at specific data points and points in time where an issue maybe reported. For example, our team used IntelliMagic to look at DASD port intensity and was able to see there was a faulty port within the DASD.
Return on Investment
  • Faster Resolution of Issues
  • Easier reporting process
Usability
9
I just started using IntelliMagic about 6 months ago. It is easy to learn how to use the web reporter tool.
Post-Sale Experience
10
IntelliMagic also has fantastic support. If you have a problem with IntelliMagic, you can be sure everything will be done to get the issue fixed. Jerry James and team have been a fantastic support team.
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
August 26, 2022

An invaluable tool!

DC
Daniel Cannon
Sr IT Engineer
The Hartford (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Identifies the top batch users during the peak 4HRA period
  • Provides health check snapshots for various Mainframe metrics
  • Provides quick insight for incident resolution
  • Lack of insight into IMS utilization at a transactional level
  • Lack of a detailed User Guide for navigation of VIsion
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for when a quick chart needs to be generated, or a chart showing a metric over an extended period of time.

Might be less appropriate where trying to categorize based on Line of Business ( for internal chargeback, for example ). While it can be done, more difficult than a programmatic mapping solution.
Return on Investment
  • Reduced z/OS infrastructure costs based on identifying high CPU usage batch jobs during peak 4HRA window
  • Faster generation of charts used during incident resolution, reducing MTTR
Usability
8
Extensive experience in performance/capacity of the Mainframe based on 39+ years experience as a MICS/MXG user and administrator and SAS-certified professional.
Vision allowed for expedited generation of charts, more time dedicated to analysis than report generation. Also allowed less skilled users to navigate and generated their own charts, freeing up support time.
Post-Sale Experience
10
IntelliMagic has been very responsive to all inquiries, very pro-active in educating via their webinar series, less reliance on 3rd-party SaaS vendor to get answers to questions or to identify potential tuning opportunities
Alternatives Considered
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
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