Abend-AID Usage Collector: Assess the Total Value of Ownership

Now more than ever, executives are demanding hard evidence of increased productivity and return on investment. With the cost of IT under constant scrutiny, you have been asked to justify value and prove ROI.

Request Usage Collector  Contact us if you are interested in assessing the impact a change could have in your environment, by capturing actual usage data. A Usage Collector is also available for File-AID, Hiperstation, Strobe and Xpediter.

That may seem like a tall order, but you can now get this information from the best possible source: the tools themselves. Compuware Abend-AID products are equipped with usage collectors that tell you exactly what you need to know to measure the return on your software investment. This is a no-charge service offered by Compuware.   

The Abend-AID Usage Collector accrues actual product usage data and information about the type of abend, frequency and error conditions that occurred on your systems for Abend-AID, Abend-AID for CICS, Abend-AID for DB2, Abend-AID for IMS, Abend-AID for IDMS and Abend-AID for WebSphere MQ.

Value Analysis

Analysis based on the collected data is used for computing potential productivity as well as a summary of actual usage. These metrics, provided via graphs, charts and spreadsheets take the guesswork out of determining productivity and resource utilization savings.

Release requirements

• Abend-AID (DB2, IMS, IDMS) 9.5 or higher
• Abend-AID for CICS 4.5 or higher
• Abend-AID for WebSphere MQ 2.0 or higher