Overview of UIE

UIE is a tool that processes performance metrics, enabling you to do capacity planning for subsystems running on z/OS.

The metrics collected can show whether certain conditions can affect performance. For example:

• Application response time is too high because one of the devices being used is also actively used by another application
• Data sharing application performance is adversely affected by sharing channels among several z/OS images

UIE can process the following types of data:

• Data from standard SMF and RMF records, which are generated by the operating system that you are running
• Standard IBM Monitor subsystem data for CICS, Db2, MQ, and WAS
• Data from BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline and Allen Systems Group ASG-TMON for CICS/ESA 

UIE uses this data to create:

• XML files that you can process with the BMC Performance Predictor for Mainframes (Performance Predictor) component on a Windows system. You can evaluate the XML file data on the Windows system to create performance models for your systems. (For details of the task flow, see Task-flow-from-UIE-to-BMC-Performance-Predictor-for-Mainframes-and-Visualizer)

• Visualizer files that you can populate into the Visualizer/CDB database, which can be used to provide costing metrics for BMC AMI Cost Management (formerly known as BMC Cost Analyzer for zEnterprise), performance metrics for BMC Helix Continuous Optimization for Mainframes (TSCO-MF), performance metrics for Workflows in the BMC AMI Capacity Reporting, and produce Visualizer graphs. For more information about Visualizer graphs, see theVisualizer documentation and the Visualizer online Help.

The following figure displays the BMC AMI Capacity Management data flow: