Product features

BBI integrates the BMC AMI Ops performance products within a common communications framework that operates across multiple machines in multiple locations. A single terminal session can use one or more BMC AMI Ops 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
• TCP/IP

For products that operate in BMC AMI Ops windows mode, BMC AMI Ops 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