BMC Compuware Strobe vs IBM Fault Analyzer for zOS comparison

Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

• Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
• Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
• Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
• Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
• Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
• Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
• Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
• Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics

IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS helps developers analyze and fix system and application failures for CICS, WebSphere MQ, IMS and DB2 environments. When an application ends abnormally, Fault Analyzer is automatically engaged, gathering real-time information about the event and its environment at the time of failure. This helps the development team to identify the cause, analyze what went wrong and resolve the problem in a more timely and efficient manner to avoid costly interruptions that could jeopardize application schedules and outcomes.