Today’s enterprises, built upon legacy systems, continue to innovate.
During their Symposium last week (October 1st-5th), the most significant gathering of CIOs in the world, Gartner said that legacy systems will continue to underpin the digital transformation in the enterprise. As a result, these systems must be improved, with Gartner’s Tina Nunno saying it’s time to stop thinking of legacy applications as a “dirty word.” She added that by 2023, 90 percent of current applications will still be in use.
Our customers who are transforming – but doing so on top of existing systems – echo similar sentiments, asking for improvement and visibility into their legacy systems.
Similarly, Gartner suggests that “CIOs should build on their legacy systems. They should combine their modernized legacy applications and their digital platform for massive integration complexity on a massive scale,” notes a recent press release.
Visibility into existing legacy systems is critical when measuring the digital enterprise, precisely what AppDynamics does today for countless businesses. This visibility has become a reality as AppDynamics now has an answer for the Mainframe (thanks to our partnership with IBM), and it’s just what customers have been asking for. Our goal with this solution is not to create something which goes deep into Mainframe subsystems themselves, but one which eliminates the painful and lengthy triage process by getting teams on the same page. It also reduces unnecessary escalations.
The typical Mainframe z/OS team includes many specialists for each subsystem, including specialists for MQ, IIB, CICS, IMS, and DB2. These groups have specialists with their tooling and processes to handle issues. Our solution is not to replace or change those tools. In fact, the IBM team who built this new capability creates those diagnostic tools (IBM OMEGAMON). Instead, the goal is to provide an additional transactional layer of visibility which is missing within the Mainframe and across distributed systems that call the Mainframe.
This new solution, IBM Z APM Connect, is designed to give the end-to-end picture, allowing for unified monitoring and business measurement all the way back to the mysterious system of record – the Mainframe. Plus, there is no requirement to have IBM OMEGAMON tooling installed.
Mainframes are among the most reliable, secure, and available systems on the planet. Many customers report years of uptime, with 100% availability. What’s more, these technological marvels transact vast amounts of information and business logic with a high degree of efficiency compared to their distributed brethren. This means that attention to overhead when monitoring is critical. IBM has created an incredibly efficient way of tracking these transactions while keeping the additional resource utilization very low. Low overhead aligns with what makes AppDynamics unique in production environments for the world’s biggest enterprise production systems.
Learn more about this new offering from IBM along with more detailed information in the IBM announcement letter which slates this solution for general availability on December 8th, 2017.
You can also see a demo of the new solution at AppD Summit NYC. Register here to attend the session and the entire day’s conference free of charge.
