Analyzing CICS Performance with watsonx Assistant for Z and IntelliMagic Vision - Full Demo

This video demonstrates how IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS and watsonx Assistant for Z work together to enhance mainframe performance analysis and reliability.

The walkthrough includes the following steps:

• Starting an analysis of CICS transactions by asking the assistant to show the highest volume CICS transactions.

• Narrowing the focus to transactions with the highest response times.

• Using IntelliMagic Vision's context-sensitive drill downs to identify key contributors to response time spikes—specifically a dispatch delay caused by a Transaction Class (TCLASS) constraint.

• Shifting to region-level analysis using CICS Statistics data to see how frequently TCLASS limits are hit across regions.

• Identifying that nearly all TCLASS limit occurrences are tied to a specific TCLASS.

This demo shows how watsonx Assistant for Z helps quickly navigate to relevant reports, supporting faster root cause analysis. It represents an early step toward an assistant that understands both IntelliMagic Vision and z/OS performance, with future iterations expanding its expert capabilities.