Athene’s Acquire for z/OS captures a wide range of the most important performance and administrative metrics from your SMF datasets. Categories of captured data include:
Configuration details and defined capacity
LPAR activity and resource consumption
System Workload details by Service Class and Report Class, including:
CP, zIIP and zAAP usage
Transaction volumes
Execution velocity
Goal achievement
Resource consumption by individual jobs
CICS transaction volumes, performance and resource consumption
DASD and other I/O performance data
Paging dataset activity
Coupling Facility activity
DASD and Storage Group free space.
A key feature of Athene for z/OS Performance Analysis is that Athene operates seamlessly across all operating system environments (z/OS, Windows, Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS, VMware). This means that a single Athene report can contain metrics selected from any or all of these environments, allowing straightforward presentation of complex metrics from a wide variety of sources.
