BMC AMI Strobe

Mainframe application performance monitoring, built for developers who need answers—not guesswork.

Stop digging through logs and chasing theories. BMC AMI Strobe gives you precise, code-level insight into inefficiencies, so you can solve mainframe application performance issues fast and move forward.

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Expose hidden performance issues sooner

Expose hidden performance issues sooner

BMC AMI Strobe enables you to shift left by taking mainframe performance measurements in CI/CD pipelines, helping developers and performance analysts pinpoint CPU-intensive program statements and reduce production bottlenecks before they happen.

  • Get comprehensive application coverage with specialized solutions for CICS, Db2, IMS, and Java.

  • Use iStrobe’s browser-based analytics to view program statements that consume excessive resources.

  • View treemaps of CPU usage and Wait Report details for quick root-cause discovery.

  • Monitor JVM activity in your applications via the new Java dashboard.

  • Use BMC AMI Strobe's Global Monitoring SMF collection to automatically identify and initiate measurements on the highest-consuming jobs.

  • Identify access paths used by SQL statements and relevant catalog statistics with BMC AMI Strobe Advisor.

  • Perform “what if” analysis, identify high-cost SQL with Db2 cost information, and more.

Create easy and repeatable measurement processes

Create easy and repeatable measurement processes

BMC AMI Strobe streamlines measurement processes by letting you schedule and reuse automatic performance tests, ensuring issues are caught and resolved before they affect service levels.

  • Easily configure targeting, sampling, and reporting with a user-friendly interface.

  • Suggestions help users of all experience levels to easily create repeatable measurements.

  • See the most important tuning targets in categories like COBOL®, Db2®, Java, IBM® Language Environment, and file access.

  • Automatically trigger measurements in Jenkins, Azure, or other CI/CD tools via the available plugins, extensions, REST APIs, and JCL Cards.

Boost productivity with predictable measurements

Boost productivity with predictable measurements

AutoStrobe boosts productivity and increases flexibility by making the measurement process predictable and repeatable. 

  • Global Batch Monitoring automates problem detection by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed time metrics.

  • When an issue is encountered, Batch Global Monitoring measures the job so you can see what’s happening and correct it.

  • Query SMF data to determine what jobs should be measured.

  • Gain insight into R4HA MSU usage with soft capacity peak time reporting. BMC AMI Strobe uses SMF data to pinpoint peak periods and show exactly what ran, regardless of LPAR.

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Customer Success

What our customers are saying

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It is important for us to keep our MIPS consumption as low as possible. BMC AMI Strobe helped us accomplish this by enabling us look at the resource consumption and identify actions we could take to reduce that consumption.

Head of Mainframe System Services

IT Solutions Austria