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BMC infrastructure components

This publication introduces infrastructure components that are used by many BMC mainframe products, and explains how to deploy and manage them.

Note

For information about infrastructure that is exclusive to MainView, see your MainView documentation.

The User Interface Middleware (UIM) and EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) are additional components that are also configured in the installation dialog under Infrastructure. For more details, see BMC Products and Solutions for DB2 Customization Guide and EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER and SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE User Guide respectively.

Infrastructure components

Component

Purpose

DB2 Component Services (DBC)

DBC provides a persistent z/OS subsystem address space into which BMC products can dynamically initialize their own product services.

The following components also require the DBC subsystem:

  • The Data Collector for System and SQL Performance products
  • BMC Workbench for DB2 (also called the GUD component)
  • LGC and NGL components
  • BMC Subsystem Optimizer for zEnterprise

DB2 Product Configuration (LGC)

The LGC technology separates product or solution installation from configuration. Through its online interface, LGC simplifies configuration and deployment by setting default option values for you.

Next Generation Logger (NGL)

NGL is a logging facility that logs and retrieves data based on application-defined keys and a time span. NGL runs as a service within the DBC subsystem and relies on the Registry Component of RTCS to permanently store information used to manage the logged application data.

Runtime Component System (RTCS)

RTCS runs as a started task and provides programming services to various BMC mainframe products. RTCS is designed for continuous operation and seldom, if ever, needs to be stopped.

The following table indicates the products that use each component.

Products that use the infrastructure components

Product

DBC

LGC

NGL

RTCS  1

APPTUNE for DB2

X

X

X

X

MainView for DB2 - Data Collector

X

X

X

X

MainView for Java Environments

X

 

X

X

MainView for MQ

X

 

X

X

MainView Infrastructure 2

X

 

X

X

MainView Transaction Analyzer

X

 

X

X

PACLOG for DB2

X

X

 

X

Pool Advisor for DB2

X

X

X

X

BMC Recovery Management for DB2

X

X

 

X

RECOVERY MANAGER for DB2

X

X

 

X

SQL Performance for DB2

X

X

X

X

BMC Subsystem Optimizer for zEnterprise (Subzero)

X

X

 

X

BMC System Performance for DB2

X

X

X

X

BMC Workbench for DB2

X

X

 

X

  1. Additional products also use RTCS. For more information about RTCS, see BMC-Runtime-Component-System-Configuration-and-Administration-Guide. The BMC Infrastructure Components Administration Guide describes RTCS only as it interacts with the other infrastructure components.

  2. MainView Infrastructure encompasses all other MainView products not listed individually in this table. Products not specifically listed in this table do not have their own NGL IDs. Instead they use the one for MainView Infrastructure.

Typically, these components are shared across the BMC products with one instance per LPAR and are upgraded only through maintenance releases.



 

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