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A Single View for Managing Multi-Vendor SAN Infrastructure
Single Pane of Glass for Storage Performance, Configuration, and Capacity Information Managing a SAN environment with a mix of storage vendors is always challenging because you have to rely on multiple tools to keep storage devices and systems functioning like they should. With a unified storage monitoring tool, you…
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Reporting on z/OS Mainframe Application Performance
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer - 13 April 2022 One of the challenges of performance data is to interpret SMF and RMF data in terms of your applications. Yet, application performance is what really matters, so it is important to get that perspective. In addition to insight from the z/OS infrastructure perspective,…
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Understanding How Logical Workloads Behave On Physical Hardware
Lee LaFrese - 13 April 2022 When large scale disk storage systems were originally introduced, a volume, as seen by the operating system, corresponded to a physical disk drive. The IBM 3390 is considered the last of these “SLEDs” (Single Large Expensive Disks) in the mainframe world. To this day,…
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The Perils of Complacency with Enterprise Storage Systems
Lee LaFrese - 13 April 2022 We live in an amazing time. In many ways, technology has changed our lives in ways that were unimaginable a few decades ago. Of course, this has also made our lives more complex, but we leverage technology to shield us from that complexity. Take…
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Deriving Insights from SMF 115 MQ Statistics Data
Todd Havekost - 13 April 2022 [This is an abbreviated version of an article I wrote for Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2020 No. 1. Follow this link to read the entire article on “Learning From SMF – MQ Statistics” republished with Watson & Walker’s permission.] Brief Introduction to MQ and…
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A Better Mainframe Gearbox for your DevOps Environment
Jack Opgenorth - 13 April 2022 DevOps is a critical discipline that is focused on applying force multipliers in the right place at the right time to improve quality, velocity, and efficiency in Information Technology. The components of DevOps have been around for decades. Like all good mashups, DevOps seeks…
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Easy Storage Capacity Forecasting and Planning
Easy to Use Storage Capacity Forecasting Tool with Advanced Analytics With traditional storage burn rate and capacity planning tools, forecasting when you’re going to run out of storage is time consuming and challenging. By utilizing an interactive GUI interface with an advanced AI-based statistical analytics engine, IntelliMagic Vision for…
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MQ Statistics and Health Assessments Overview
Introduction to metrics found in MQ Statistics records and how automated assessments of key metrics can facilitate proactive analysis and prevention of outages by identifying areas that may warrant investigation. View Assessing MQ Buffer Manager Health View Assessing MQ Log Manager Health More MQ Statistics Videos Overview of…
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Deriving Value when Deluged with Data (aka CICS Transaction Reporting)
Todd Havekost - 13 April 2022 Most of us can identify with situations where we are deluged with data, and we face challenges wading through it all and pulling out the value. A scenario that comes to mind is the proliferation of TV shows now available. As if the shows…
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Understanding Physical Sequential Datasets
Jeff Berger - 13 April 2022 The focus of this blog is on Physical Sequential datasets. As the name implies, Physical Sequential datasets are usually accessed sequentially. These are datasets defined with DSORG=PS. The concept of Physical Sequential datasets is unique to z/OS and is one of the big advantages…