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Blog
AI and z/OS Performance and Capacity Analysis: 2018 Predictions
Brent Phillips - 24 January 2018 2018 is gearing up to be a watershed year for z/OS performance and capacity professionals. Industry analysts have been talking for some years now about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the role it will play in our work. But what that truly means, and its…
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Video
Identifying Root Cause in EMC VNX
This short video demonstrates how easy it is to quickly determine the root cause of performance issues within your EMC VNX storage environment using IntelliMagic Vision dashboards, ratings, and drill downs. This is important if you want to maximize the throughput of your VNX systems. Video Transcript Hi my…
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Reporting on z/OS Mainframe Application Performance
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer - 24 January 2018 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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Webinar
Lessons on Optimizing Processor Cache From z15 Upgrade Case Studies | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Now that significant cycle speed improvements are a thing of the past, delivered capacity on processors beginning with the z13 is more dependent than ever before on effective utilization of processor cache. Since it is likely that one-third to more than half of your total CPU cycles are spent waiting…
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High IOSQ Time in Mainframe IO Subsystem Leads to Credit Card Transaction Timeouts for Major Bank
Joe Hyde - 24 January 2018 Black Friday is one of the busiest transaction days of the year, and it often seems like an easy payday for most participating companies. But have you ever wondered what performance preparations must be made to accommodate the overly inflated volume of credit card…
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Video
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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The Perils of Complacency with Enterprise Storage Systems
Lee LaFrese - 24 January 2018 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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Understanding How Logical Workloads Behave On Physical Hardware
Lee LaFrese - 24 January 2018 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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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 - 24 January 2018 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…