Performance and Stability Optimization in IBM Environments

Are your mission-critical applications based on IBM technologies and do they span several layers and servers? Does the IBM WebSphere Application Server play a central role in your application portfolio? Are IBM technologies like Tivoli, Rational Developer and others deployed over the entire application life cycle? Are application availability and performance gaining increasing relevance and vulnerability due to the increasing complexity of your system architectures? Are problems and errors in distributed applications becoming more frequent and is the slow, arduous debugging process leading to higher costs due to lengthy periods of unplanned downtime? If you answered “yes” to any of the preceding questions, then concrete measures for optimizing performance and stability are demanded.
dynaTrace Diagnostics^® offers the ideal solution for the management of application performance 7x24 and the precise diagnosis of performance and stability problems, custom tailored to complex distributed IBM environments.

End-to-end performance diagnosis from IBM JVMs via WebSphere Application Servers to IBM DB2

dynaTrace Diagnostics makes it possible to precisely reconstruct individual business transactions from the end-users' perspective across several servers and tiers and beyond. As such, diagnostic information can for example be collected starting with Java applications deployed on IBM JVMs/IBM WebSphere application servers and out to back-end systems and IBM DB2 databases, and correlated to unique PurePaths. Even issues as subtle as load balancing problems within an application server cluster can be automatically recognized and differentiated from application logic errors. As a result the entire IT architecture is recognized out-of-the-box and incorporated into a detailed, comprehensive system diagnosis.

Diagnosis of IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM CICS transaction server

Complex communication facilities like IBM’s WebSphere MQ technology are also supported by dynaTrace Diagnostics. Diagnosis of Java connectors, the transactions they handle and the message queues involved is enabled out-of-the-box. Combine this advanced functionality with sophisticated analysis of the MQ architectural model itself and you have a fully integrated, contextually rich performance and stability diagnosis solution. This comprehensive monitoring approach is extended further with the support of IBM CICS transaction servers. Data exchange between Java applications and IBM CICS transaction servers by means of JCA is fully incorporated into the diagnosis.

Web Services and IBM WebSphere Remoting

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are also frequently used in IBM environments for increasing application transparency and flexibility. This is realized on the one hand using Web Services and on the other hand using WebSphere Remoting. dynaTrace Diagnostics makes the detailed analysis of RMI over IIOP and Web Services possible, and in so doing brings its unique and powerful performance optimization capability to even the largest, most complex IBM environments.

Plug-in Interface: Integration with IBM Tivoli and IBM Rational Developer

In addition the advanced functionality described above, all provided out of the box, dynaTrace Diagnostics also adds very flexible integration options to the mix – particularly for IBM technologies. dynaTrace Diagnostics, for example, can be seamlessly connected to IBM Tivoli by means of a plug-in interface to send any alerts directly to the IBM Tivoli operations console. There are likewise powerful integration possibilities for developers. By integrating with IBM Rational Developer through its CodeLink plug-in, developers can jump from dynaTrace Diagnostics directly to the appropriate place in the source code if problems have been identified without any unnecessary, time-consuming search procedures. All of these advanced features, and many more, make dynaTrace Diagnostics the optimal solution for optimizing performance and stability – particularly for IBM technologies and those who rely on them.