SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence Reviews

System monitoring and issue alerting. Problem investigation and resolution. System status and configuration details.

It pulls together a lot of utilities provided by other tools/products into one consistent umbrella.

CICS, JES, and MVS aren't necessarily valuable, just very useful. SYSVIEW provides information that supports our duties in problem alerts, problem investigation, and performance monitoring and management.

For one particular environment, the capturing, recording and presentation of IBM CPUMF data would be useful.

IBM Mainframes now produce data on processor cache performance. There is a mechanism for capturing that data within z/OS. It is useful for comparing machines and the impact of the number of partitions and logical to physical processors ratios.

We've had no issues with the stability.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

They're very good.

We switched due to a corporate directive.

It wasn't very difficult to implement.

I am not involved with licensing, as this is done at a corporate level.

I was not involved in the decision to purchase this product.

It is a very powerful and reliable tool with a relatively easy to follow interface.

A lot of what I use it for is compiling and debugging, and I think it’s beautiful. It lets me know what went wrong with jobs that I've run for testing.

Using SYSVIEW means we have to bug our tech support a lot less. It lets us see what’s running, what conflict we have in jobs, and where we don’t have to bother.

Any functionality that I thought it could improve on is in the most recent release. It is a complex system, though, as every view has a different setting panel. This can be overwhelming for someone coming in, but once you get a grasp of it, it gets easier.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We have never had any trouble with stability.

We've had no trouble with scalability.

Technical support has been very helpful. But the community of users has been particularly helful. Someone even helped me ASAP, which was huge.

The initial setup was complex, as this is a complex system. Each view has its own settings panel, which can be overwhelming.

You should have at least have one person who is up to date with the current release. This can help a lot with setting up the solution and implementation. I also recommend to work hard on becoming familiar with this product, as it is complicated at times.

The CICS and DATACOM optional components are the most valuable.

We particularly like the versatility of the product. It can be used in REXX, batch or interacting with automation, CA-OPS/MVS interaction is particularly good. For example, OPS/MVS will trigger events that will check SMS storage groups through SYSVIEW and email reports on volume information

It needs better documentation explaining the different possibilities of what you can do with the product.

I've been using it for over 15 years.

We've not had any issues but it's worth testing the product out fully before implementing live into production.

There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.

8-9/10 - CA's whole support offering has improved vastly since the 90's.

To reduce licencing costs, we merged other products. We needed SYSVIEW as this was the best if not the only monitoring tool for Datacom. We used SYSVIEW to replace CA-LOOK, SAS, MAINVIEW, and could also be used to replace SDSF.

The initial setup is very easy. It is a bit tricky if you have to perform customizations, as migration can be tough, but things improved a lot from v13.0 as you can now have in-house written information in your own libraries and transfer them to the new versions much easier.