ims ui and mobile update -ims ug july 2013 nyc

IMS UI (and mobile) update

Kyle Charlet

© 2013 IBM Corporation

Kyle CharletSTSM, IMS SOA and modernization

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AdministratorsDevelopers

IMS user interface landscape


IMSISPF Mobile

Admin Console vision

� Provide IMS system programmers and DBAs a state-of-the-art user interface to manage, configure, and deploy IMS systems

� Full operational control over all IMS address spaces

� Full command of IMS resources


� Full command of IMS resources

– Programs, transactions, databases, etc

� Immediately react to and resolve issues in the system

� Cloud-style IMS system management

– IMS region profiling, application profiling, application deployment

Admin Console advantage� Skills

– Designed to help both new and experienced

users

� Competitive edge

– Critical access to important information


– Critical access to important information

– Deliver results faster and more efficiently

– Reduce operational cost

� Flexibility

– 24x7 Access to data from anywhere at anytime

• Smart phones

• Tablets

– Software integration

24x7

“I want the most junior systems programmer to understand while the most senior the ability to tune”


Beyond TSO SPOC


Beyond TSO SPOC

Connect and discover� Discovery

– Configure IMS Connect connections

– Discover IMS Resources

• IMSPlexes

• IMS Connects


• Operations Manager

• IMS's

– Transactions

– Databases

– Programs

– Routing Codes

From....SYSPLEX1 (EC03127)

LPAR 1

IMS2

IMS CONNECT

IMSPLEX (PLEX1)

TransDatabasePrograms Routing Codes


LPAR 3

IMS3IMS1

IMS CONNECT

IMS CONNECT

LPAR 2IMSPLEX (PLEX2)

Operations Manager

Operations Manager

TSO SPOC


SCIODBM


..configure....

Define the environment Configure IMS

Connect


Auto Discover IMSPlexes

To....� Hierarchical view

of IMS Resources

� Logically grouped and auto discovered


� Quickly navigate from one resource to another

Search the enterprise� Search

– Search for any resource that has been

configured or discovered

• Resources include IMS Transactions, Databases, Programs and Routing Codes

– Search result types are identified by keyword


– Search result types are identified by keyword

– Instantly view the found resource and drill further into the resource

Search the enterprise

Search for Transaction

ADDINV

Results continue to narrow down till you

have stopped typing


Searching the entire enterprise for a match

while you type “ADD....”

IMS resource relationships

� Resource Relationships

– At a glance see how resources are related

– Relationships between resources in one view

– Quickly diagnose problems between

resources


resources


IMSIMS

IMS

IMSIMS

IMS

IMS resource relationships


Web Console Prototype


Web Console Prototype

Intended insight

� View the Enterprise

– Hierarchical and logical grouping of resources

� IMSplex at-a-glance

– Immediate insight into properties of any given IMSplex

– Drill-down for advanced insight and action

� Transaction Insight


– Transaction and program status immediately available

– Operate directly on transactions

� Database Insight

– Status and attributes immediately available

– Operate directly on databases

� Program Insight


– Operate directly on programs

� Routing Code Insight


– Operate directly on routing codes

Intended insight� At-a-glance status Icons

– Colored status icons help identify troubled resources

� Context sensitive help

– Hover hints

– User driven help panel


– Suggested corrective actions

� Product integration

– Seamless integration across IMS and IMS Tools

� User profiles and caching

� Zero install footprint for clients

� Server installs on z/OS and Windows

Transaction insight (intended)


Operate directly on databases (intended)


At-a-glance status icons (intended)

� Statuses are aggregated and represented by icons

– Severe, Success, Warning

� Hover help displays the aggregated statuses

Statuses are shown as icons

Hover icons for the status


– Can drill in to a row and access our integrated help

� Future direction would allow for users to configure the status colors to their own business logic

NOTINIT BAL TRA

QERR CPIC DYN

STOQ IOPREV

STOSCHD LCK

USTO QSTP

SUSPEND

Status icon definitions for transactions

Context sensitive help (intended)

� Hover hints

– Helpful to new users

� User driven help panel

– Context sensitive help

Context sensitive help

panels


� Corrective actions

– Suggestions

corresponding to the

statusHover help available for

attributes

Corrective actions, how to

handle a particular status

Live Demo


Live Demo

IMS user interface landscape

AdministratorsDevelopers


IMSISPF Mobile

Why mobile

� By 2020, the number of mobile devices worldwide will

exceed 24 billion

– IMS needs to enable mobile apps to interact more easily

with IMS


� Essential technology that will enable customers to

deliver on their business imperatives

� Modern, integrated interfaces lower the skills barrier

“Mobile is a mandatory transformation in the evolution of computing”

Client/Server

Web/Desktop

Mobile/Wireless/Cloud

Mobile enables:


Mobile enables:

• Premium Customer Service – hotel

bookings, flight check-in, etc

• Broader Marketing Reach – Put your

branded icon on your customers’ smart device

• Increased Revenue

• Increased Operational Efficiency – extend

your existing enterprise systems to the mobile platform

ISPF

IMS mobile strategy (intended direction)

� The IMS mobile strategy gives our clients a mobile foundation

they can depend on

� Expand IMS ecosystem via delivery of mobile infrastructure

� Promote new mobile application development

� IMS Administration Console pivot to mobile

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� IMS Administration Console pivot to mobile

IMS mobile enablement – intended architecture

IBM z/OS

Mobile

Devices

WAS Liberty Profile

JSON

IBM Worklight

Server

SQL Adapter

HTTP Adapter


Web / Desktop

REST API

IMS Mobile Apps

JSON

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