"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"Ability for system diagnostics"
"I also really appreciated all the work that everybody did to get it functional for JES3, and they continue to do so, even though IBM said they are going to do away with JES3."
"It is easy to see if anything is wrong. The queues on the system are fast, and it is very intuitive to locate something."
"The scalability is absolutely fine."
"Thresholds with alerts are valuable, enabling us to fix a problem before it has an impact."
"We have not had any major issues in approximately 15 years."
"I use most of the SMS space management extensively, but also the features that enable me to look at dumps and different dataset allocations to the system, and performance data from the queueing and delays."
"The stability is very reliable. We have not had any issues."
"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"The documentation, like installation guides and stuff, put it all in one place."
"We are using Datacom as the database system, so maybe a little bit more integration with that."
"They are already working on improvements. One of them is the operational intelligence, which is a lot of stuff I am trying to learn and work on right now, which SYSVIEW reports to that all the system things which are going on."
"It confuses a lot of people because there are so many features, but when they see me bouncing around they say, "I didn't know it did that, I didn't know it did that." It takes a long time to find all the different features that are available."
"The things that I would think about would be in relation to JES3. However, I don't know if they'll be able to do much more with that because I don't know how much longer IBM is going to be supporting JES3. So I can understand not doing additional development. But if I were to suggest something it would be the JES3 initiators, the JES3 queues."
"If a unit of work ID is associated with a CICS, a DB2, and a MQ transaction, and having that capability correlate to those different technologies via one business application transaction which would be beneficial."
"The documentation format could be better. I noticed with the last release that all of the manuals were bundled into one. It used to have a separate installation guide, user guide, etc."
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BMC MainView is ranked 2nd in Mainframe Management while SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is ranked 5th in Mainframe Management. BMC MainView is rated 9.0, while SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of BMC MainView writes "Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence writes "Applications see what's wrong with a transaction and make corrections". BMC MainView is most compared with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, ASG TMON, OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and Rocket Software Mainframe, whereas SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is most compared with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, ASG TMON and BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence.
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