Requirements

Before you install the product, make sure that your environment meets the following requirements:

System requirements

Prepare your environment with the following system requirements:

Item	Requirement
Operating system	z/OS 2.2 or later
Db2	Db2 for z/OS version 11 or 12
RTCS	RTCS version 2.1 (Installed by Installation system if not already present)
UIM	UIM version 5.5 (Installed by Installation system if not already present)
DNA Host Services	FMID ZDHS053 Important If FMID ZDHS053 was not installed with your previous installation of UIM, we recommend selecting UIM during the install of BMC AMI Ops Insight.
BMC AMI Defender	BMC AMI Defender for Ops Insight version 6.1.000 SPE2201
Java	Java 8 for z/OS, 31 bit and 64 bit

Requirements for launching BMC AMI Ops views

To launch the relevant BMC AM IOps view from the classification page, you must have BMC AMI Ops UI 1.0 installed.

Requirements for accessing the UI

Chrome running on a Windows operating system
iOS devices
- Version: 14.4 or later
- Size: 9.7" or larger
Android devices
- Version: 10 or later
- Size: 10.5" or larger

Note

On touch screens, only landscape mode is supported.

USS parameter requirements

Prepare your USS environment with the following requirements:

Parameter	Requirements
MEMLIMIT	Minimum 64 GB in the OMVS segment of the user running AM Manager and Tomcat
MAXTHREADS and MAXTHREADTASKS	192 threads: 64 threads for the PDTDB database 64 threads for MLeap 64 threads for AMI Manager
Memory	Minimum normal workload (-Xms)–default 2GB Maximum workload (-Xmx)–default 4GB Note These numbers might vary depending on the number of models in use. You can modify them in <INSTALL_PATH>/aoihome/oi_home/mgr/bin/run_manager.sh.

WLM requirements

All components of BMC AMI Ops Insight must run at a higher priority than what they are monitoring. We recommend that you run them in Importance 1.

For the optional detailed analysis to work properly under load, make sure that your BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure and monitor products are defined with the correct WLM Service Class. For more information, see BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure documentation.

Installation requirements

The user who runs the SMP/E install and post-install jobs must have an OMVS segment and RACF READ permission to the BPX.FILEATTR.APF and BPX.FILEATTR.PROGCTL resources in the FACILITY class to set USS's APF and PROGCTL extended attributes.

RMF/CMF requirements

For BMC AMI Ops Insight to collect the required SMF data for 1.2 SYSPLEX KPIs, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMFor IBM’s RMF Monitor I (SMF 70-78) and Monitor III (SMF 74.2 and 74.4) must be active on the LPARs where your Db2 subsystems are running.

SMF record types 74-2 (XCF Activity) and 74-4 (CF Activity) are optional, but RMF's Monitor III data gathering is highly recommended if you are using RMF to detect problems related to Coupling Facility (CF) and Cross-system Facility (XCF).

CMF and RMF extractors produce identical type 70 through type 79 records. If you have CMFand RMF active simultaneously, make sure that only CMF or RMF is configured to write to the SMF data set, or SMF logstream, to prevent duplicate records in BMC AMI Ops Insight.

Make sure that following control statements are enabled in CMF or RMF:

CMF Control Statements	RMF I & III Control Statements	Comments	SMF Record Types
ASMDATA	PAGESP	Page/swap data set statistics	SMF type 75
CFDATA	CFDETAIL	CF detail statistics	SMF type 74-4
CPU	CPU	CPU statistics	SMF type 70-1
ENQUEUE	ENQ	Enqueue detail statistics	SMF type 77
PAGING	PAGING	Paging statistics	SMF type 71-1
VSMDATA	VSTOR	Virtual storage statistics	SMF type 78-2
WORKLOAD	WKLD	Workload manager statistics	SMF type 72-3
XCFDATA	CFDETAIL	XCF detail statistics	SMF type 74-2

If you are using CMF, you must specify the following parameters in the REPORT statement of your CMFCPMxx member:

CPM,SMF=YES,SYNC=SMF,INTERVAL=SMF

For more details, see Collecting-data-using-the-BMC-AMI-Ops-Monitor-for-CMF-Extractor or your z/OS RMF documentation.

Requirements for optional detailed analysis

Prepare your environment as follows to enable detailed analysis:

Item	Requirement
BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure	Version 6.3 or later
BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2	PTF-level must include BPD4967
User access	The user ID associated with the data preparation address space must have READ access to your BMC AMI Ops Monitors' data.

Requirements for optional graph functionality

To install the Docker container for the optional graph functionality, one of the following items is required:

Item	Requirement
zCX	z/OS 2.4 or later z14 or z15 with hardware feature code 104 activated Minimum 2 GB of private memory (recommended 4 GB) Storage – 2.2 GB per monitored Db2 (one month of data) To plan for zCX installations and understand system requirements, see your IBM documentation and IBM Redbook SG248457, Getting Started with z/OS Container Extensions.
Linux on x86	Any Linux version that supports Docker Engine 19.03 CPU – 1 Core RAM – 1 GB Storage – 2.2 GB per monitored Db2 (one month of data)
zLinux	CPU – 1 Core RAM – 1 GB Storage – 2.2 GB per monitored Db2 (one month of data)