Abstract for Resource Measurement Facility User's Guide

The Resource Measurement Facility™ (RMF™) is the strategic IBM® product for performance management in a z/OS host environment.

This document describes RMF, what it can do, and how to use RMF sessions. For information about analyzing the various reports that RMF produces, see z/OS RMF Report Analysis.

Who should read this information

This document is intended for use by:

System administrators and programmers responsible for installing RMF and modifying its functions
Performance analysts responsible for measuring and improving system performance,
System operators

Because RMF is a product for measuring system performance of a z/OS system, this document assumes that the reader has extensive knowledge of the z/OS system.

The z/OS RMF library

This table shows the full titles and order numbers of the books in the RMF library for z/OS.

Table 1. RMF Library
Title	Order Number
Books available as Hardcopy and Softcopy
z/OS z/OS RMF User's Guide	SC34-2664
z/OS z/OS RMF Report Analysis	SC34-2665
z/OS z/OS RMF Messages and Codes	SC34-2666
z/OS z/OS RMF Programmer's Guide	SC34-2667
z/OS z/OS RMF Reference Summary	SX33-9034
Softcopy documentation as part of the z/OS Collection (SK3T-4269 (CD-Rom) and SK3T-4271 (DVD))

Related information

For additional information on z/OS, see the z/OS Information Roadmap, SA23-2299.