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Advantages

To make work easier for the application performance team, Performance Management Assistant provides the following advantages:

• Central Component
  • Creates statistical measurements for every executed job step and maintains this information in its own history database
  • Automates CA Mainframe Application Tuner (CA MAT) measurement of all job steps exceeding statistical maximum limit
  • Automates CA Mainframe Application Tuner measurement of all new and changed programs
  • Detects critical job steps and provides Alert Management
  • Manages CA Mainframe Application Tuner measurement requests -- even in multisystem environments
  • Allows user defined Performance Management Assistant scope of work
  • Gathers only important CA Mainframe Application Tuner measurement data with history
  • Provides both update and read-only access options for parameters
  • Identifies top consuming job steps
  • Passes data to other products, for example, data dictionary
  • Pinpoints high consuming objects for performance tuning and cross references the job steps that use them with data mining
  • Automates the control process of checkpoint writing with Checkpoint Checker
• CICS and IMS features
  • Measures CICS and IMS systems automatically on a regular basis
  • Interprets measurements according to user parameters thereby extracting only important information about CA Mainframe Application Tuner measurements
  • Aggregates information about CA Mainframe Application Tuner measurements to information for a whole online system
  • Provides navigation and cross referencing within the online dialog that brings the user from a problematic transaction down to the statement cause
  • Gathers historical information for transaction, modules, DB2 plans, and PSBs for up to 18 months
  • Detects critical transactions and provides alert management

Performance Management Assistant guarantees you maximum flexibility:

• Parameter control allows the user to change the general settings of Performance Management Assistant.
• Parameter control allows the user to enable or disable certain functions.
• Through defined interfaces, Performance Management Assistant can be easily adapted to any environment.
• An easy to use, comprehensive set of ISPF panels allows users to control Performance Management Assistant and manages the information that is gathered.