PM iSeries™ can help make managing system resources and capacity planning significantly easier. Learn more specific ways to utilize PM iSeries.
When you use the PM iSeries function, you receive these benefits:
You avoid disappointing surprises. You are in control over managing the growth and performance of your system, which means that you manage the system. Your system does not manage you.
You eliminate the labor intensive and expensive tasks of collecting and reporting performance data by doing it automatically. This benefit gives you the advantage of focusing your resources on managing your system and applications.
You can proactively plan for the financial requirements to keep your system running at its peak efficiency.
You understand the information, which in turn makes it easy for you to present to senior management when asked the question, "Why do we need to upgrade?"
You can make projections of your data processing growth based on factual trend information.
PM iSeries data enables you to identify performance bottlenecks.
You can upload PM iSeries data to the Workload Estimator for iSeries for sizing your next upgrade.