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Blog
What Good is a zEDC Card?
Dave Heggen - 9 January 2017 The technologies involving compression have been looking for a home on z/OS for many years. There have been numerous implementations to perform compression, all with the desired goal of reducing the number of bits needed to store or transmit data. Host-based implementations ultimately trade…
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Profiling zHyperLink Performance and Usage
Dennis Moore - 9 January 2017 Although zHyperLink has been available for several years now, many mainframe sites have yet to implement the technology into their production environment. In this blog, we’ll review one site’s recent production implementation of zHyperLink for reads, for Db2. We will provide examples of reporting…
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News
What’s New with IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS? 2024.2
9 January 2017 This month we’re introducing changes to the presentation of Db2, CICS, and MQ variables from rates to counts, updates to Key Processor Configuration, and the inclusion of new report sets for CICS Transaction Event Counts. Let’s dive right into these changes: Ability to Change the Presentation of…
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ESM Enterprise Executive Interview with Els Das and Brent Phillips
By Denny Yost Enterprise Executive recently caught up with Els Das, CEO and co-founder along with Brent Phillips, Managing Director, Americas and took the opportunity to chat with them about the company and its z/OS operations analytics solution. Enterprise Executive: IntelliMagic has established a presence at some of the largest…
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AI: Too Much of a Good Thing
Jack Opgenorth - 9 January 2017 One of my first exposures to algorithms that made automatic adjustments was related to travel & transportation. Over three decades ago, deregulation drove airlines to introduce software in the availability and pricing of their inventory to maximize profit. The applications were ‘yield management’, and…
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News
What’s New with IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS? 2024.1
9 January 2017 This month we’re introducing updates to the Subsystem Topology Viewer, new Long-term MSU/MIPS Reporting, updates to ZPARM settings and Average Line Configurations, as well as updates to TCP/IP Communications reports. Let’s dive right into these changes: Subsystem Topology Reports IntelliMagic Vision 2024.01 introduces major updates to the…
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IntelliMagic partners with Edge Consulting, combining z/OS performance analytics and consulting capabilities
Mar 19, 2018 Mainframe customers needing quick and efficient access to the most powerful z/OS infrastructure performance and optimization analysis on the market will benefit from the new strategic relationship between IntelliMagic, Inc. (IntelliMagic) and Edge Solutions and Consulting (ESC). These elite, special-forces capabilities result from a close working relationship and…
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Customer Experience
IntelliMagic and Watson & Walker: Partners in Mainframe Optimization
Company Overview Watson & Walker is a vendor-independent mainframe consultancy firm that provides practical mainframe performance and measurement advice. Founded by Cheryl Watson and Tom Walker in 1991, the Watson & Walker team is one of the best-known and respected z/OS performance and measurement advisory groups in the world. Cheryl…
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How to Reduce the Risk of SAN Service Outages with Topology Views
Brett Allison - 9 January 2017 From time to time you will need to upgrade firmware on your switches or your arrays. Additionally, there are sometimes unexpected hardware failures within the SAN environment. In both of these scenarios it is critical that you understand which hosts and applications are potentially…
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How to Create a Network Operations Center (NOC) for Your SAN Infrastructure
Brett Allison - 9 January 2017 How do you make Enterprise SAN performance, capacity and availability approachable for the Operations teams? You start by simplifying complex relationships between the VMware guests, associated fabric connections and external storage and summarizing the overall health into a few simple to understand dashboards. You…