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
Status Monitor in Operations Console showing the Stop IMS Connect port option highlighted
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