This IBM Redbooks publication introduces the IBM Problem Determination and Deployment Tools for z/OS and OS/390. The tools covered are:

-> IBM Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS Version 1 Release 1

-> IBM Debug Tool for z/OS Version 6 Release 1

-> IBM Debug Tool and Advanced Facilities for z/OS Version 6 Release 1

-> IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS Version 6 Release 1

-> IBM File Manager for z/OS Version 6 Release 1

-> IBM File Export for z/OS Version 1 Release 1

-> IBM Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390 Version 1 Release 1

This comprehensive suite of powerful yet easy-to-use tools helps developers to efficiently build, test, and service applications while minimizing errors and increasing cost-effectiveness. The tools allow users to quickly identify and resolve problems that occur in batch, IMS, DB2, CICS, and UNIX System Services applications.

For each tool, this book provides step-by-step instructions for installation and customization, a detailed discussion of the features and capabilities, and guidance for using the tool in your environment.

Part 1. Executive overview and summary

Chapter 1. Executive summary

Chapter 2. Overview of the Problem Determination and Deployment Tools

Part 2. Introduction to Problem Determination and Deployment Tools

Chapter 3. Introduction to Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS

Chapter 4. Introducing Debug Tool and Debug Tool Utilities & Advanced Functions

Chapter 5. Introduction to Fault Analyzer for z/OS

Chapter 6. Introduction to File Export

Chapter 7. Introduction to File Manager for z/OS

Chapter 8. Introduction to Workload Simulator

Part 3. Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS

Chapter 9. Application Performance Analyzer: settings and customization

Chapter 10. Application Performance Analyzer: creating a monitoring request

Chapter 11. Application Performance Analyzer: Performance Analysis Reports

Chapter 12. Application Performance Analyzer: analyzing a job with subsystem

Chapter 13. Application Performance Analyzer: more about reports

Part 4. Debug Tool and Debug Tool Utilities and Advanced Functions

Chapter 14. Debugging programs using Debug Tool

Chapter 15. Using Debug Tool under UNIX System Services

Chapter 16. Debug Tool and subsystems

Chapter 17. Debug Tool Utilities and Advanced Functions

Part 5. Fault Analyzer for z/OS

Chapter 18. Fault Analyzer settings and customizations

Chapter 19. Fault Analyzer interactive analysis

Chapter 20. Fault Analyzer real-time analysis report

Chapter 21. Fault Analyzer batch reanalysis report

Chapter 22. Fault Analyzer and subsystems

Chapter 23. Fault Analyzer additional information

Part 6. File Export

Chapter 24. Using File Export for z/OS

Chapter 25. Test data and File Export

Part 7. File Manager for z/OS

Chapter 26. Using File Manager

Chapter 27. File Manager/DB2

Chapter 28. File Manager/IMS

Chapter 29. Test data and File Manager

Part 8. Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390

Chapter 30. Workload Simulator and Workload Simulator Test Manager settings and customization

Chapter 31. Workload Simulator Test Manager

Chapter 32. Basics of scripting for Workload Simulator

Part 9. Scenarios

Chapter 33. Introduction to the scenarios

Chapter 34. Guided tour of the Trader application

Chapter 35. Scenario 1: Invalid VSAM data generating an abend

Chapter 36. Scenario 2: using Debug Tool

Chapter 37. Is the error in DB2 data or program logic

Chapter 38. Using Fault Analyzer and File Manager

Chapter 39. Using WSim to create workloads

Chapter 40. Using Application Performance Analyzer with the WSim workload

Part 10. Appendixes

Appendix A. ENV - common exit environment information

Appendix B. Additional material