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Business Applications

Group IP connections into meaningful business application names to help you understand the network activity and workload associated with key business applications.

Business Value:

The primary goal of a mainframe-based network is to provide reliable access to critical data and applications that reside on z/OS systems. This data and these applications underpin many of your business applications and services. Being able to view network activity and workload in terms of your key business applications and services enables you to better understand their well-being, prioritize network events, and assure service to the business.

Additional Considerations:

You define business application names using connection criteria.

• If the Create Application Name Definitions? field is set to YES when Express Setup is run, a business application name is created for every active address space discovered. The name is the address space name, and the ports are the active ports when the address space was discovered.
• Define meaningful names that are useful to report on. Do not confuse flexibility with granularity—too much granularity can be expensive. Large numbers of unnecessary application names or historical connections can use up space in the SOLVE SSI database and can increase CPU usage.

More Information:

For more information about defining and monitoring business applications, see the Implementation Guide and User Guide.