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Customer Experience
Colruyt Group IT opts for interactive mainframe analysis with IntelliMagic’s expert knowledge
This testimony was originally created in Dutch. You can read the Dutch version here. Colruyt Group is a retail company with a diversified portfolio, from clothing stores to green energy, with supermarkets as its core business. At Colruyt Lowest Prices, Colruyt Groupâs supermarket chain, the slogan is “The lowest price, for…
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Understanding Physical Sequential Datasets
Jeff Berger - 17 January 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…
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CICS Transaction Timing Analysis by High Level Components
Examples of CICS transaction response time analysis starting from high-level categories such as CPU, I/O Wait and Other Wait. View Transaction Response Time Analysis View Response Time Analysis Values Differing by System ID More CICS Transactions Videos CICS Timing Metrics – Overview Transaction Response Time Analysis Timing Analysis…
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How Far Behind is My Asynchronous Replication?
Lee LaFrese - 17 January 2022 Time is Not Always on Your Side In the 1960s the Rolling Stones had a hit song called âTime is On My Sideâ. Donât you wish it really was? Too often in our jobs and personal life time seems to be the enemy. Too…
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How to Manage Performance in Hitachi Enterprise Storage
Troubleshooting Hitachi VSP and HUS VM Performance Issues Managing performance in a virtualized storage environment can be tricky. See how you can troubleshoot performance across your Hitachi Enterprise Storage Environment (VSP, HUS VM, G-Series, F-Series) and easily identify the root cause of performance issues. In this video, we demonstrate how…
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Assessing and Analyzing CICS Storage Health
Automated assessments of key CICS Statistics Storage metrics facilitate proactive analysis and prevention of outages by identifying areas that may warrant investigation. These views also expedite learning by highlighting metrics that are important to understand and analyze. View Assessing CICS Transaction & Enqueue Health CICS Transaction Class Metrics …
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What Enterprise Storage system vendors wonât tell you about SSDs
Lee LaFrese - 17 January 2022 For some time, Enterprise Storage vendors have touted Solid State Devices (SSDs) as a true game changer. They talk about nearly infinite performance and little energy usage compared to spinning disk drives. They promote dynamic tiering software as the best way to assure that…
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Ensure Your Outsourced z/OS Mainframe Delivers Optimal Performance and Cost Efficiency
Brent Phillips - 17 January 2022 Itâs becoming increasingly common for organizations to outsource, or consider outsourcing, their z/OS mainframes. There can be compelling arguments for the business executives to outsource as an efficient way to cut costs, eliminate risks, and focus on core business competencies (which is not necessarily…
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The Attack of the Disk Clones
Lee LaFrese - 17 January 2022 When I first started working in the storage industry, the only way data was backed up was via tape. In the days of $10,000 per gigabyte of disk, there was no way any sane person would propose disk back-up. The best practice for Disaster…
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Breaking Through Hard-To-Diagnose SVC Bottlenecks
Brett Allison - 17 January 2022 Imbalances in an SVC environment can occur in different areas. If these imbalances are significant, they can cause bottlenecks, resulting in optimization and performance issues. Using IntelliMagic Vision, it is possible to quickly discover, diagnose and resolve even the most difficult-to-pinpoint SVC problems. Using embedded storage intelligence from our many years of…