Introducing PlexSpy Application Status Monitor. The only CICS monitoring tool that can usefully be used by help-desk staff and other non technical specialists.

1. Context Scope Perspective
PlexSpy Application Status Monitor
Cut Investigation and Diagnosis time by up to 90 per cent!
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2. It Just Got Easier To Monitor Your CICS Applications
Introducing
PlexSpy Application Status Monitor
Cut the time to resolve operational issues affecting CICS applications.
Establish the real-time status of your named CICS applications.
Get the answers you need quicker than ever before.
Can be usefully used by less technically experienced staff to evaluate system status.
Less reliance on diminishing numbers of technical specialists.
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3. It Just Got Easier To Monitor Your CICS Applications
Do your Support Staff know the important aspects of your applications and their status?
When issues arise, can you quickly establish the status of the applications you are responsible for
supporting?
How long does it take you to establish the current status of your CICS applications?
Does your business call upon a handful of aging technical specialists to investigate every reported
problem?
When implementing new applications, have you put in place adequate monitoring facilities?
PlexSpy Application Status Monitor will improve your ability to support your CICS
Applications.
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4. PlexSpy Application Status Monitor
Get more from CICSPlex SM !
PlexSpy is itself based on CICS and CICSPlex SM and exploits an Internet
Browser user interface.
You simply define your named CICS Applications to PlexSpy and specify the
aspects of your CICS infrastructure upon which it depends. PlexSpy will then
provide instant real-time status information about it.
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5. Benefits
If there is a problem you will understand it quicker than ever before and be on the
road to recovery that much sooner.
Less reliance on second line support personnel.
Reduced outage / impact to business.
Reduced impact = more profits.
Quicker problem diagnosis = Less wasted time = more profits.
Cut Investigation and Diagnosis time by up to 90 per cent!
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6. Strengths and Advantages
Unlike traditional CICS Monitors, PlexSpy presents a view of the entire CICS
footprint of your application in one display. Across LPARS, across the CICSPlex,
even across CICSPlexes.
Improved ability to plan changes and support implementations involving CICS
Applications and environments.
Reduce the workload of the second line CICS support team.
If you can use a web browser, you already know how to use PlexSpy.
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7. Who can benefit from PlexSpy?
System operators
Service Managers
Application Support
System Programmer / CICS Administrators
Incident & Recovery Managers
Disaster Recovery Managers
Perhaps even Business Managers.
Any Company or organisation that depends upon CICS applications.
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8. How Does PlexSpy Work?
PlexSpy is based on CICS and CICSPlex SM and uses a web browser interface.
A PlexSpy administrator must define the aspects of the CICS infrastructure upon which
your named CICS applications depend.
This is done via a web form and applications defined earlier can easily be edited to
refine the information that PlexSpy presents to the end user.
There follows a number of Screenshots showing various PlexSpy functions.
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9. Screenshot - 1
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10. Screenshot - 2
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11. Screenshot - 3
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12. Screenshot - 4
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13. Screenshot - 5
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14. Screenshot - 6
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15. Screenshot - 7
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16. Screenshot 8
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17. Screenshot 9
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18. Screenshot 10
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19. Screenshot 11
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20. Technical Requirements
CICS TS 3.1, CICS TS 3.2, CICS TS 4.1 ...... into the future!
Z/OS 1.8 or higher
Your applications must be executing in regions associated with a CICSPlex.
TCPIP must be active on the LPAR in which PlexSpy operates.
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21. Invitation
To improve the support you provide to your CICS Applications…..
Contact us for more information:
Matter of Fact Software
www.plexspy.com
enquiries@matteroffactsoftware.com
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22. Acknowledgements
CICS and CICSPlex SM are registered Trademarks of IBM Corporation.
PlexSpy is a Trademark of Matter of Fact Software.
Copyright 2010 - Matter of Fact Software
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