Product features

MainView product integration provides host system monitoring and automation (even in remote locations) through a common terminal session. Product integration is achieved through the BBI intercommunications technology.

BBI integrates the MainView performance products within a common communications framework that operates across multiple machines in multiple locations. A single terminal session can use one or more MainView products to monitor and manage multiple local or remote targets. Typical targets include:

• IBM z/OS (sysplex or nonsysplex)

• IBM subsystems (such as CICS, Db2, IMS, MQSeries, VTAM, or WebSphere)

• UNIX systems from The Open Group

• Linux systems from Linus Torvalds

• TCP/IP

For products that operate in MainView windows mode, MainView provides a built-in separation of the data, application, and end-use dimensions of systems management. This separation facilitates maximum flexibility and extensibility. BBI communications, data collection, and the end-user terminal session run in three distinct address spaces:

• Coordinating address space (CAS)

• Product address space (PAS)

• User address space (UAS)

This structure provides a consistent, flexible environment for managing hundreds of system images. Depending on the products installed, with this environment you can:

• Summarize data on a single system or across multiple system images

• View historical or real-time data from multiple systems, summarized in one view

• Enter commands for multiple products on multiple systems

• Apply simple or complex data-filtering conditions

• Access different systems and products quickly and easily with simple target switching, direct hyperlinks between products, or multiple concurrent views on one terminal session