SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence's data integration and visualization capabilities have helped improve operational outcomes by reducing the time to respond to incidents because it is a real-time monitor.
Learn what your peers think about SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
Sr. Analyst/Technology Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 25, 2018
This is our primary performance monitor; it replaced BMC Mainview and is much easier to install and maintain, with most of what we need in this single product.
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 19, 2017
It provides much more info regarding the mainframe and interfaces, with ease of use (menus); has many more options available compared to the previous product.
A long-term performance database in SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence would be beneficial to see historical performance for the long term and observe trends.
The things that I would think about would be in relation to JES3. However, I don't know if they'll be able to do much more with that because I don't know how much longer IBM is going to be supporting JES3. So I can understand not doing additional development. But if I were to suggest something it would be the JES3 initiators, the JES3 queues.
IT Systems Engineer Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 31, 2018
The documentation format could be better. I noticed with the last release that all of the manuals were bundled into one. It used to have a separate installation guide, user guide, etc.
Learn what your peers think about SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
If a unit of work ID is associated with a CICS, a DB2, and a MQ transaction, and having that capability correlate to those different technologies via one business application transaction which would be beneficial.
Enterprise Systems Engineering at First Data Corporation
Nov 26, 2017
They are already working on improvements. One of them is the operational intelligence, which is a lot of stuff I am trying to learn and work on right now, which SYSVIEW reports to that all the system things which are going on.
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 19, 2017
Perhaps the CPU usage: When SYSVIEW is accessed via VTAM, the CPU usage is higher than compared to when its accessed via TSO using exactly the same commands, e.g., Display active tasks.
The screen layout could be updated and be more modern looking. The product has a 1980’s interface and it seems no investment whatsoever has been made in this respect.
