State of the art CICS Application Monitoring

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PlexSpy Application Status Monitor

Context Scope Perspective

Cut Investigation and Diagnosis time by up to 90 per cent!

Friday, 17 September 2010

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It Just Got Easier To Monitor Your CICS Applications

Introducing


Cut the time to resolve operational issues affecting CICS applications.

Establish the real-time status of your named CICS applications.

Get the answers you need quicker than ever before.

Can be usefully used by less technically experienced staff to evaluate system status.

Less reliance on diminishing numbers of technical specialists.


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It Just Got Easier To Monitor Your CICS Applications

Do your Support Staff know the important aspects of your applications and their status?

When issues arise, can you quickly establish the status of the applications you are responsible for supporting?

How long does it take you to establish the current status of your CICS applications?

Does your business call upon a handful of aging technical specialists to investigate every reported problem?

When implementing new applications, have you put in place adequate monitoring facilities?

PlexSpy Application Status Monitor will improve your ability to support your CICS Applications.


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Get more from CICSPlex SM !

PlexSpy is itself based on CICS and CICSPlex SM and exploits an Internet

Browser user interface.

You simply define your named CICS Applications to PlexSpy and specify the

aspects of your CICS infrastructure upon which it depends. PlexSpy will then

provide instant real-time status information about it.


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Benefits

If there is a problem you will understand it quicker than ever before and be on the road to recovery that much sooner.

Less reliance on second line support personnel.

Reduced outage / impact to business.

Reduced impact = more profits.

Quicker problem diagnosis = Less wasted time = more profits.

Cut Investigation and Diagnosis time by up to 90 per cent!


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Strengths and Advantages

Unlike traditional CICS Monitors, PlexSpy presents a view of the entire CICS footprint of your application in one display. Across LPARS, across the CICSPlex, even across CICSPlexes.

Improved ability to plan changes and support implementations involving CICS Applications and environments.

Reduce the workload of the second line CICS support team.

If you can use a web browser, you already know how to use PlexSpy.


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Who can benefit from PlexSpy?

System operators

Service Managers

Application Support

System Programmer / CICS Administrators

Incident & Recovery Managers

Disaster Recovery Managers

Perhaps even Business Managers.

Any Company or organisation that depends upon CICS applications.


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How Does PlexSpy Work?

PlexSpy is based on CICS and CICSPlex SM and uses a web browser interface.

A PlexSpy administrator must define the aspects of the CICS infrastructure upon which your named CICS applications depend.

This is done via a web form and applications defined earlier can easily be edited to refine the information that PlexSpy presents to the end user.

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Technical Requirements

CICS TS 3.1, CICS TS 3.2, CICS TS 4.1 ...... into the future!

Z/OS 1.8 or higher

Your applications must be executing in regions associated with a CICSPlex.

TCPIP must be active on the LPAR in which PlexSpy operates.


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InvitationTo improve the support you provide to your CICS Applications…..

Contact us for more information:

Matter of Fact Softwarewww.plexspy.com

[email protected]


http://www.plexspy.co.uk

http://www.plexspy.co.uk

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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Acknowledgements

CICS and CICSPlex SM are registered Trademarks of IBM Corporation.

PlexSpy is a Trademark of Matter of Fact Software.

Copyright 2010 - Matter of Fact Software


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State of the art CICS Application Monitoring