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IBM WebSphere provides one of the most popular environments to develop and run today’s complex, business critical J2EE applications, including packaged application environments such as WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Commerce.

dynaTrace and its PurePath Technology provides deep insights into the inner workings of J2EE applications running on WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and other WebSphere infrastructure components such as WebSphere ESB and WebSphere MQ, enabling continuous performance management across the lifecycle. It provides three fully integrated product editions specifically tailored to the needs in each application life cycle stage: Development, Test, and Production.

Get Code-level Transparency into your WebSphere Applications

dynaTrace unlocks the performance secrets of WebSphere and its Java applications on all platforms, including AIX and z/OS (Mainframe). Its deep Java diagnostics capabilities enable you to precisely understand how your custom Java code is affecting the performance of specific business transactions, even if your application environment is globally distributed across several locations. As dynaTrace instruments Java byte code and thus does not require any source-code, you even see into dynamic behavior of WebSphere and its application services itself. Even issues as subtle as load balancing problems within an application server cluster can be automatically recognized and differentiated from application logic errors.

Extend Visibility Into WebSphere MQ and CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG)

dynaTrace traces transactions even across asynchronous WebSphere MQ connectors and enables you to understand the dynamic message behavior of Java applications. Additionally, dynaTrace lets you analyze how Java applications use CICS and its transactional services as they can trace business transactions into the CTG client and server running on z/OS.

Manage SOA Applications Running on WebSphere ESB

In case you run a SOA application that exposes Web services to external systems and you orchestrate them with WebSphere ESB, dynaTrace allows you to manage their performance with ease. Simply define your service end-points and trace each transaction to alert, diagnose and prevent performance or functional problems on calls done from an external or internal system.

Triage Performance Issues between your custom J2EE application and the WAS infrastructure

dynaTrace not only provides deep-dive visibility into the Java application layer on a transactional basis, but also enables you to monitor the resource consumption of your WebSphere Application Server through PMI and JMX. This way, you can efficiently triage between either the J2EE application layer or the WebSphere infrastructure causing the performance problem that surfaced in a dedicated transaction, but also diagnose the root-cause of the issue within WebSphere and its system configuration.

Plug-in Integrations with IBM Tivoli and IBM Rational Developer

dynaTrace provides out-of-the-box plug-ins to seamlessly integrate with your existing IBM-centric IT and development environment:

• IBM Tivoli
  Directly send any alerts created because of service-level violations with certain business transactions or other application issues such as exceptions directly to the IBM Tivoli operations console
• IBM Rational Developer
  dynaTrace CodeLink accelerates applying the necessary code changes required to resolve the performance issues identified with dynaTrace