Tivoli® Decision Support for z/OS®, previously known as Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390®, supersedes Service Level Reporter (SLR).
Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS is a reporting system which uses DB2®. You can use it to process utilization and throughput statistics written to log data sets by computer systems. You can use it to analyze and store the data into DB2, and present it in a variety of forms. Tivoli Decision Support consists of a base product with several optional features that are used in systems management, as shown in Table 8.
CICS® Performance | IMS™ Performance | Network Performance | System Performance | Workstation Performance | AS/400® Performance | Accounting |
Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS Base |
The Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS base includes:
Each feature provides:
The Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS database can contain data from many sources. For example, data from System Management Facilities (SMF), Resource Measurement Facility (RMF), CICS, and Information Management System (IMS) can be consolidated into a single report. In fact, you can define any non-standard log data to Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS and report on that data together with data coming from the standard sources.
The Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS CICS performance feature provides reports for your use when analyzing the performance of CICS Transaction Server and CICS/ESA, based on data from the CICS monitoring facility (CMF) and CICS statistics. These are some of the areas that Tivoli Decision Support can report on:
The Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS CICS performance feature collects only the data required to meet CICS users’ needs. You can combine that data with more data (called environment data), and present it in a variety of reports. Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS provides an administration dialog for maintaining environment data.
Figure 35 illustrates how data is organized for presentation in Tivoli Decision Support z/OS reports.
The Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS CICS performance feature processes these records:
For more information on using Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS with CICS, see Using Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS to report on CICS performance.