Actional for Mainframes
The norm today for many organizations is an IT foundation that is truly heterogeneous spanning a diverse mix of distributed, and mainframe technologies. And while mainframe technology has diminished in popularity, many thousands of mission-critical applications are still managed by legacy transaction processing platforms such as IBM’s Customer Information Control System (CICS). As transactions traverse across these interconnected systems, any issue or exception within a single step of their journey can result in losing a revenue opportunity or not meeting a customer commitment, such as a service-level agreement (SLA).
To effectively understand transactional behavior you need a solution that seamlessly integrates all technologies and presents the information in a way that can be understood by both IT and business analysts.
Mainframes Made Visible
Business transaction assurance provides true end-to-end visibility into cross-platform transactions, including those that involve proprietary, mainframe systems – with no required changes or impact to the underlying infrastructure. Our patented Actional technology provides automatic discovery and real-time insight into every step of the transaction flow from the enterprise service bus (ESB) to the application server to external services calls--with the added benefit of mainframe CICS and WebSphere MQ transactional behavior included.
With Progress® Actional® organizations can:
- Proactively diagnose the root cause of transaction performance issues and failures with automatic discovery and correlation before it impacts end users or revenue channels.
- Gain end-to-end visibility without impact to existing mainframe MIPS capacity – achieving 100% offloads to mainframe Systems z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP).
- Auto discover mainframe transactions and messaging queues with no coding.
Actional is a proven business transaction management solution that will help you quickly identify, resolve and even prevent lost, stalled or invalid transactions. With Actional you can pinpoint the exact business process step, system, service or operation that is causing a particular issue so that you can take immediate action, in real-time. And because of its low resource use and lack of custom coding, Actional minimizes the cost, resources and time involved in re-architecting code—the result being a lower total cost of ownership.
Progress Responsive Process Management
Progress empowers organizations to use one interface to immediately sense and respond to threats and opportunities with real-time visibility into all mainframe-based transactions. The Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite allows you to see what’s going on across all transactions within your heterogeneous environment, take action on events and opportunities, and improve processes through a unified, interactive environment—all in real-time The Progress RPM™ suite integrates easily into your existing infrastructure so you can get up and running quickly, without disruption.
