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IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review
January 06, 2022

IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Review

john virzi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

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.
  • Provide dashboards
  • Report on I/O activity
  • Provide color codes for problem areas
  • Maybe - solutions based on problems [IntelliMagic] Vision [for z/OS] detected
  • Disk performance reporting and analysis
  • 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.
intellimagic vision was my first choice and never reviewed other similar products.

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

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS again?

Yes

[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.