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Many businesses concentrate more on running their day-by-day operations than
on planning for or anticipating critical situations. Thus, the implementation of
these systems management disciplines is frequently driven by critical situations
such as unacceptable response time, client complaints, problems that are not
being solved in a timely manner, changes in software or hardware that create
problems, changes in the business environment that require more computational
resources, and so on.
However, most of the information about how a system is performing, which is
needed for systems management, already exists. z/OS monitors, collects, logs
and registers a great deal of valuable system information. Reporter