Status Monitor
The Status Monitor in the IMS™ Connect Extensions Operations Console allows you to monitor and control IMS Connect systems and their components.
Figure 1. The Status Monitor in IMS Connect
Extensions
Operations Console for z/OS Explorer

Use the Status Monitor to perform the following tasks:
- View and export event statistics for IMS Connect systems and groups of systems, TCP/IP ports, user exits, and IMS data stores
- Manage IMS Connect systems:
- View and clear ACEE cache statistics
- Switch from the active journal to the next
- Update event collection levels
- Update session message limits
- Update ODBM and OTMA routing plans
- Activate tracing based on filtering criteria (conditional tracing)
- Diagnose problems with IMS Connect user exits via recorder tracing
- Start and stop IMS Connect TCP/IP ports
- Start, stop, and reload user exits
- View the status of IMS data stores as candidates for OTMA routing
- Manage IMS data stores:
- Start and stop IMS data stores
- Suspend and resume routing of messages to an IMS data store (drain)
- Make adjustments to workload balancing by changing capacity weights for IMS data stores