For a mapping of previous Candle names and new IBM names, refer to: http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/product-matrix.html For more information about IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS and other members of the Tivoli Monitoring Services family, refer to: http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/sw-atoz/indexO.html 3.8 IBM IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS IMS Connect Extensions is an IBM DB2 and IMS Tools program product (program number 5655-K48) that extends and enhances the services of IMS Connect. The tool helps you tune IMS and IMS Connect performance, perform problem determination, and better manage workloads, user exits, and security. For monitoring and tuning, IMS Connect Extensions provides the following features: Event recording and reporting IMS Connect Extensions records details about IMS Connect internal events in journal data sets. They give information about these main points: ­ Performance and response time for IMS, IMS Connect, and user message exits ­ Availability for datastore and ports ­ Throughput information for different transaction types, for example, conversational, non-conversational, and send only ­ Resource availability