Abend-AID Products for DB2

Fault Detection and Diagnosis for DB2

Compuware's Abend-AID for DB2 and Abend-AID for CICS/DB2 options provide application programmers, MVS and CICS system programmers, DBAs, help desk and support staffs with a powerful, automated solution for DB2 fault management.

No matter how carefully you develop your DB2 applications or how extensively you test them, you can't protect them from faults—the unexpected conditions or exceptions that cause applications to fail. When a DB2 application fails in production—whether the fault is due to an incorrect SQL statement, invalid DB2 data or a problem with MVS or CICS—the resulting downtime can cause loss of revenue, productivity, credibility and customers.

To reduce the consequences of application and system downtime, you need a way to immediately respond to faults and quickly resolve them. Abend-AID for DB2 for batch and Abend-AID for CICS/DB2 in CICS transaction and region environments give you the tools to:

• detect all DB2, CICS, IMS and batch application faults.
• capture pertinent information about the application, system, stored procedures and DB2 environment
• notify appropriate help desk, DBA and support personnel that a fault has occurred
• report all DB2 fault activity across multiple MVS, CICS, IMS and DB2 images in a consolidated directory
• analyze DB2 reason and SQL return codes along with the captured information to pinpoint the problem; recommend corrective action.

Abend-AID and Abend-AID for CICS are part of a strategic Fault Management solution that includes MVS, OS/390, CICS, LE, PL/I, COBOL, IMS, CA-IDMS and DB2. Because of its Strategic Development Alliance with IBM, Compuware offers timely support for new releases of CICS, LE, IMS, OS/390 and DB2.