Item: IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision
Rating: 10
Author: john virzi

Overall Satisfaction with IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Provide dashboards
Report on I/O activity
Provide color codes for problem areas

Cons

Maybe - solutions based on problems [IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] detected

Most Important Features

Disk performance reporting and analysis

Return on Investment

It [has] aided us in providing performance statistics to show good or bad response time for batch or online workloads.
It helps us insure our disk maintains the level of service we expect and provides warnings when it doesn't.

Alternatives Considered

intellimagic vision was my first choice and never reviewed other similar products.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

[IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] is a great product to report on many aspects of disk performance. We use Hitachi and Hitachi provides a tool (MAR) to provide RMF records to report on [their] internals. [IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] uses that data to produce reports. I find them very helpful and [they] provide further info other than data provided by RMF. It does provide insights for CPU and z/OS as well [even] though we don't have the license to do so. I can't think of a better product for disk performance reporting and analysis.

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IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review