IBM IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS is an investigative tool for IMS systems and application programmers that can help you determine the cause of problems and trace the flow of events.  It formats and presents log data, enabling IMS programmers and administrators to navigate, investigate, and analyze records and transactions.

IMS Problem Investigator can help you identify why you have a problem on the database side of IMS by providing crucial information such as who or what updated a database, and when the database was updated. It can also help diagnose performance issues on the transaction management side of IMS by tracking IMS transactions end-to-end through IMS and outside to related systems. By determining transaction times and event latencies, it can help identify bottlenecks.

As part of the IMS Tools Performance and Tuning solution, IMS Problem Investigator complements other IBM tools, including Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS, IMS Performance Analyzer, and IMS Connect Extensions, by providing enhanced log analysis and reporting.

IMS Problem Investigator is branded and distributed internationally by IBM.



Examine the details of IMS, IMS Connect, and CQS records without requiring the DSECTs; get a snapshot of transactions; dissect processing times.