BMC AMI Data Reviews & Insights

We heavily use the BMC AMI Ops suite, specially Catalog Manager, Apptune and Sql Explorer. They give great help with performance issues, managing DB2 Objects, navigating the catalog, and doing Change Management in a simple way.

It is very helpfull in a day by day works, like navigating objects managing them, managing data, do Change management.
It is not so helpful in Change of accelerated Tables.
Lacks the opportunity to do an Analysis oìin som e cases, when Table is accelerated.

I currently work for a company that provides IT services to many, many companies. Unfortunately, none of the clients I support currently use BMC's IMS database administration tools. However, as an IMS DBA, I've utilized BMC's AMI tools many times. Thee products are outstanding: dependable, efficient, well documented, and backed with outstanding support from BMC staff. I've used them for the entire range of IMS DBA function like image copies, reorgs, pointer checks, etc. You name it, and there's a BMC tool to help you do it. Great products!

BMC AMI Data mainframe products are well suited to mature mainframe environments staffed by experienced IT professionals who know and understand the database environments they're operating in. Those same products are less suited environments with staff whose primary experiences are with distributed platforms where there's less hands on work and a reliance on 'point and click' tools.