Munif Sadek wrote: >I am looking for MVP (minimum Viable Product) to provide End-to-End >visibility of Business Applications where back-end is Mainframe - >CICS (Inbound services via CICS Listener, Liberty, Outbound via CICS >Web Services) MQ (CICS - MQ, DB2 - MQ, FTE etc) DB2 (CICS-DB2, JDBC, >ODBC etc) and of zOS.
>We do have various products - SAS / MXG / CMF / Mainview / NetMaster >/RMF / CICS PA / True Sight / BMC CAZe but all fall shorts and does >not integrate well with Front end tools such Kibana - Splunk - App >dynamics to not only give, overall status of individual services >Health (traffic Lights) but also to provide Interactive Interface >to the user in Near - real time to have *some* visibility inside >Mainframe various components. This is absolutely no problem and comparatively easy to do. As examples, in no particular order: 1. IBM Z APM Connect provides live "telemetry" feeds from all the subsystems you've named, and more (IMS for example), into Cisco's AppDynamics and/or IBM APM. Here are the main links at IBM and at Cisco for more information: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/z-app-performance-management-connect https://www.appdynamics.com/partners/ibm-mainframe-visibility/ The latest version of IBM Z APM Connect, as I write this, is Version 6.1 released on September 14, 2018: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS218-432/ENUS218-432.PDF The IBM Program Number is 5698-ABL. 2. The IBM Common Data Provider for Z (part of IBM Z Operations Analytics) accomplishes much the same if you want to feed Splunk and/or Elastic Stack (Kibana is the "K" in Elastic Stack's previous name, ELK): https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/common-data-provider-for-z-systems https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/08/22/insane-in-the-mainframe-splunk-and-ibm-partner-to-provide-end-to-end-visibility-for-joint-customers.html IBM Z Operations Analytics also had its latest release (as I write this) in September, 2018: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS218-165/ENUS218-165.PDF The IBM Program Number is 5698-ABH. 3. For the record, Syncsort markets an alternative solution that uses its Ironstream technology on z/OS to feed Splunk. Your preferred monitoring and diagnostic tools are still useful for deeper inspection and troubleshooting, as/when merited -- just as with every other platform, system, network switch, storage unit, etc., etc. But those tools aren't prerequisites for these application service management integration patterns with AppDynamics, Splunk, Elastic Stack, IBM Application Performance Management, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
