Overview
IMS Problem Investigator is a problem analysis and diagnostic tool for IMS Transaction Manager and Database Manager systems.
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IMS Problem Investigator is an investigative tool for IMS systems and application programmers that can determine the cause of problems and trace the flow of events end-to-end.
- Provides powerful problem-solving and diagnostic capabilities through an ISPF dialog, and batch report and extract facility
- Formats and presents log data from the IMS Log, Monitor, CQS, OMEGAMON TRF, DB2, and WebSphere MQ, and IMS Connect event data from IMS Connect Extensions journals
- Tracks transactions end-to-end through IMS and outside to related systems
- Determines transaction times and event latencies to help identify bottlenecks
- Allows you to define log record formats, and customize log record analysis and extracts using a REXX command interface
- Provides drill-down to field-level to help pinpoint the cause of problems highlighted in the high level transaction response time and resource utilization reported by IMS Performance Analyzer
- Program number: 5655-R02
- Operating systems supported: z/OS
Product framework
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Additional products, services and solutions
Products
Provides a comprehensive suite of reports to help manage the performance and resource utilization of IMS systems
Solutions
Optimizes database performance to help meet data access demands
