Environmental Support

The organization must ensure that adequate levels of support are available for the online environments of choice (CICS, TSO, IMS/TM, or other in-house teleprocessing monitors). Usually, the addition of DB2 development to these environments adds considerable growth to the number of developers and end users of these monitors . Be sure that this explosion in use is planned and that appropriate staffing is available to support the growth.

Additionally, if performance monitors are unavailable for these environments, the addition of DB2 should cause your organization to rethink its position. When DB2 is added to the puzzle, tracking certain types of performance problems can be nearly impossible without a performance monitor available in each environment.