Optimize performance of applications and pinpoint system trouble spots with precise accuracy.
Workload Performance Series software is a comprehensive, integrated suite of modules that looks at virtually every aspect of your system's application-processing environment to diagnose and eliminate processing bottlenecks. This can help avoid costly hardware upgrades.
Developer's Take
"Unlike other systems management tools, the Workload Performance Series software pinpoints root-cause performance issues and provides easy-to-implement solutions that can be executed immediately, such as database tuning, application changes, and systems-management technique improvements."
–Mike Boadway, founder MB Software & Consulting
Functions
Monitors and analyzes system resources, providing trends, historical data, source-code analyses, and alert notifications based on predefined thresholds.
Features
Other modules, which provide high-level resource utilization and statistical overviews, can be used to drill deeper into your environment to find the needle in the haystack—the root causes of specific processing issues—and correct any issues, using application profiling, database tuning, job analysis, and user tracking.
Platforms
IBM i (iSeries/System i/AS/400)
System Requirements
All OS/400 operating system versions are supported from V5R1M0 forward with Workload Performance Series V7.0 release.
Other
Must have PC available for downloading software.
Product Category
System Monitoring
Product Type
Diagnoses and eliminates processing bottlenecks, thus avoiding costly hardware upgrades.
General Availability Date
Available now
Price
Free AS/400 app monitoring. Also free one-year Workload Performance Series Pro license offers are now available for environments with 10 production LPARs, one LPAR per customer. Includes full use of the Workload Performance Series software with all technical support options included; license cannot be moved during that year. Otherwise, 30-day no-registration free trial, then one-time license fee of $8995, plus annual maintenance $1799. Business Plus version may be leased monthly for $500, depending on server and LPARs.
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MB Software & Consulting, Inc.
3105 Cold Springs Road
Baldwinsville, NY 13027-8247
Tel: 315.635.5880
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Web: www.mb-software.com
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