The goal of this presentation will be to provide mainframe engineers with some insight into the complicated nature of managing mainframe data visualizations and how they provide practical business value in solving everyday problems. We will go over three main topics: 1. The pros and cons of managing your own data visualizations 2. A look at some "best bang for your buck" mainframe tower visualizations everyone should have 3. We'll end analyzing a z/OS Connect API performance issue and how we used performance data visualizations to help us understand our problem Speaker(s): Chris Howerth