IBM®
IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS®
Operations Console is a plug-in for z/OS Explorer that provides you with additional capabilities beyond the IBM
IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS ISPF-based interface. Use the Operations Console to view real-time IMS Connect information, stop and start IMS data stores, suspend and resume routing, and issue IMS Connect WTOR command or IMS™ Connect z/OS command and IMS type-1 commands.
Figure 1. The IMS Connect Extensions
Operations Console for z/OS Explorer
Use the
Operations Console to perform the following tasks:
- Conduct status monitoring of IMS Connect systems and IMS
data stores.
- Identify all IMS data stores across all your IMS Connect systems that relate to a specific IMS
system.
- Suspend and resume routing to multiple IMS data stores at
once to
drain
them of in-progress transactions, typically before IMS shut down.
- Update capacity weight ratings (CWR) across multiple IMS
data stores for multiple IMS Connect systems.
- Stop and start IMS data stores, ports, and exits.
- Monitor and view details of active sessions (connections) between IMS Connect and its clients, and then sessions that may be taking longer than
expected to complete.
- Review event statistics for a selected IMS Connect
system.
- Activate and set session message limits.