Re: GUI for Performance Tools

I do not have all the answers, but hope I have been helpful ... this is a 
topic that interests me too for future implementation.

>  From:    drasch@mail.win.org (Dan Rasch)
>   
>  I have a client taking performance measurements, and I would like to
>  interface the results to a PC for colored graphics.  I thought I
>  remembered a PC interface to BEST/1, but am drawing a blank.
>  
>  Is there a specific product for presentation on a PC, or should I download
>  to a spreadsheet and do it manually?

IBM has some free services in which you capture performance data via PM/400, 
send it to IBM via the ECS line, then access their analysis in GUI format.

http://www.ibm.com/services/electronic

I need a service like that to interpret PRTSQLINF for me ... I have tons of 
messages that are Greek to me

There are tons of products out there, but data bases that I have used tend to 
index by name of vendor that is now selling the product, so if you cannot 
stay current (I can't), someone has to help us.

Best/1 is from BGS which transmits graphs to intranet 

Management Central uses AS/400 attached PC to graphically display performance 
information in real time

Simulator/400 from Rick Turner & Associates is a PC-based performance tool to 
help predict impact of expected corporate growth on AS/400 performance

You might check the archives of News/400 for Winter Quarter 1994 which had a 
comparative review of these kinds of products at that time ... no doubt all 
have improved & many have changed vendor names in the interim, but it is one 
starting point ... another is Appendix E of the book "Mastering AS/400 
Performance" from News/400.

http://www.as400network.com

You might check the archives of AS/400 Magazine for the June 1999 interview 
with Help Systems VP Tom Huntington on the evolution of tools for capturing 
performance data & advancement of tools to manage performance, changing what 
we need to be looking for ... example many major software providers have made 
poor provisions to support getting rid of old data & there are some specific 
programs we want to identify that are in need of re-write.

http://www.as400magazine.com

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