Overview of mainframe components

The following components support Advisor:

• The console is the graphical user interface (GUI). The console runs on a client workstation under the Microsoft Windows operating system and communicates with the User Interface Middleware (UIM) server through TCP/IP technology.
• The UIM server translates communication between the console and the ADV server. The UIM server runs on the z/OS™ platform.
• The ADV server manages all Advisor functions. The ADV server communicates with the UIM server, ADV repositories, IMS subsystems, and IMS database utilities. The ADV server runs on the z/OS platform.
• ADV repositories store Advisor data, such as statistics about your databases, parameter values you have set, and configuration information about your environment. ADV repositories are VSAM data sets that are shared by all ADV servers in a sysplex. One ADV server is assigned to handle I/O to the repositories.
• The BMC Consolidated Subsystem (BCSS) manages APF-authorized functions and performs processing for intercepted operating system requests. Advisor uses the BCSS with Cross Product Connectivity (CPC) technology. If CPC is installed with BCSS, the Advisors can share a BCSS with other BMC products. The BCSS/CPC works with the ADV server. The BCSS/CPC communicates with the BCSS/CPCs on other z/OS images through the z/OS coupling facility.
• The BMC Primary subsystem (BMCP), which is not shown in the diagram, establishes supervisory services for many BMC products. The BMCP communicates in the background with the BCSS. One BMCP is installed on each z/OS image and is shared by all BMC products that are running on that image.
• IMS database utilities, which are not shown in the diagram, communicate with Advisor and IMS databases. The utilities are functions that are supplied with the BMC solutions and the basic IBM reorg functions that are supplied with IMS products.
  • All functions that are provided with the BMC MAXM Reorg solutions communicate statistical information to Database Advisor.
  • Fast Path database utilities communicate with Database Advisor and the IMS databases. The Analyze function that is offered with the BMC Fast Path/EP Suites provides statistical information to Database Advisor.
  • BMC backup and recovery utilities communicate with Recovery Advisor and the IMS databases.