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DataDirect Shadow Advanced Controls
The challenge of integration doesn't stop once the connection is made, True enterprise-scale mainframe integration has to incorporate features to manage and control the flow of information between platforms. Shadow Advanced Controls is an optional component of the Shadow integration suite that provides advanced features for to help an organization manage there overall Shadow environment for optimum integration quality of service. The Shadow Advanced Controls feature consists of two components:
- Shadow Activity Monitor - a capacity planning and trending tool for Shadow implementations
- Shadow Event Facility - a performance tuning scheduler and automation package that manages key Shadow parameters and automates responses to problems based on defined user-specified requirements and issues
Shadow Activity Monitor
The Shadow Activity Monitor (SAM) is a capacity planning and trending tool designed to provide rapid insight into workload levels running through Shadow from distributed applications. The data can be organized into meaningful intervals and presented in tables, charts or graphs, which can then be used to perform valuable trend analysis.
- Activity Monitor Key Features
- Intuitive ISPF interface and Graphical User Interface - The GUI allows point and click access to data, tables, charts and graphs. The display presentation is user configurable, with filtering capabilities for user, resources (I/ O, CPU, network), time intervals and subsystems
- SQL analysis - detailed information includes analysis of SQL executed by users and performance statistics
- User-specified collection intervals - data collection and reporting intervals can be established and changed to meet your organizations requirements
- Multiple output formats - detail records can be provided through SMF data, DB2 tables, the SAM GUI and mainframe SDF panels
- Activity Monitor Key Benefits
- Rapid trend analysis - graphical output available with the SAM GUI simplify analysis of system performance and resource utilization
- Improved availability - trend analysis allows administrators to correct performance and resource utilization problems before they disrupt application service levels
- Improved and stable performance - SAM provides significant amounts of performance data that can uncover performance degradations along with the cause of the degradation
Shadow Event Facility
The Shadow Event Facility (SEF) is an automation tool that allows organizations to fine-tune Shadow operational parameters to meet changing workloads. It also automates responses to pre-defined error conditions. These functions improve Shadow's overall performance and availability and increase the effectiveness of Systems and Operations personnel.
- Event Facility Key Features
- Granular control - provides ability to tune Shadow parameters and execution characteristics based on the application, user, group and time of day
- Control over multiple resources - provides ability to tun z/OS and subsystem parameters
- Automated problem resolution - ability to automatically execute pre-defined responses to specified events related to simple or recurring problems
Supported event types include exception (EXC) events, security (ATH) events, SQL events, RPC events, time-of-day (TOD) events and Global Variable (GLV) events. Responses are specified using Event Procedures (EProcs) that can be written in REXX, COBOL, PL/I, C, or Assembler.
- Event Facility Key Benefits
- Improved resource control - you can optimize resource utilization at all times by automating Shadow performance characteristics based on application and business needs
- Increased security - SEF support for security events can notify appropriate personnel about suspicious activity and automate system changes to prevent a security breech
- Availability - SEF provides the ability to proactively manage your environment to avoid problem areas that could cause disruptions of service. The "trigger" facility can be set up to automatically take corrective action based on problems or exception events that occur.
- Improved manageability - by automating responses to common situations, SEF reduces the amount of manual effort required to maintain Shadow, helping Systems and Operations more effectively manage their ever-increasing workloads
- Full performance optimization - SEF automates corrections on many levels and can improve the performance of Shadow, the applications that use Shadow and the z/OS system where Shadow is running
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