-
Blog
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…
-
Blog
Viewing Connections Between CICS Regions, Db2 Data Sharing Groups, and MQ Queue Managers
Todd Havekost - 3 March 2022 One key success factor in managing today’s mainframe environments is having a good handle on the multitude of connections between CICS regions, Db2 data sharing groups and members, and MQ queue managers. Having good visibility into these complex configurations can help CICS, Db2, and…
-
Blog
nil sub sole novum – Vision 7 Support for IBM APAR OA39993
Dave Heggen - 3 March 2022 IBM APAR OA39993 available for the zEC12 processor introduced what could be considered a new Service Time component for devices, Interrupt Delay Time. This value measures the time from when the IO completes to when the z/OS issues Test SubChannel (TSCH) to view the…
-
Blog
4 Benefits of Implementing TS7700’s New Microcode Compression
Merle Sadler - 3 March 2022 Have you ever turned down free stuff? In my experience, the old saying, “Nothing in this world is free” is true more often than not. I’ve turned down enough “free (when you sit through our two-hour seminar on how to invest your money) dinners”…
-
Blog
What’s New with IBM DS8900F?
Lee LaFrese - 3 March 2022 This blog was originally published on February 10, 2020. IBM announced a code update to their all-flash, high-end storage array, the DS8900F, on August 11, 2020, and it became generally available in early September. This blog will take a closer look at what was…
-
Blog
z/OS Application Performance Insights – Recapping SHARE St. Louis
Morgan Oats - 3 March 2022 After a busy and exciting week in St. Louis, another successful SHARE conference is in the books. IntelliMagic presented seven sessions surrounding z/OS application performance topics and enjoyed meeting IT professionals and industry leaders dedicated to ensuring optimal z/OS performance and application availability and…
-
Customer Experience
KBC decided to ensure Data Storage Availability with IntelliMagic Vision
This testimony was originally created in Dutch. You can read the Dutch version here. It is crucial for any financial institution to be able to count on the availability and reliability of data at all times. This is no different for Belgian bank and insurance company KBC Group NV. Marc Van Hoof,…
-
Blog
How to Reduce the Risk of SAN Service Outages with Topology Views
Brett Allison - 3 March 2022 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…
-
Blog
6 Signs You Already Have a Skills Gap for z/OS Performance and Capacity Planning
Brent Phillips - 3 March 2022 The mainframe skills gap is a well-known issue, but most of the focus is on mainframe application development. A large z/OS mainframe organization may have thousands of application developers but only 20 or fewer performance & capacity planning staff. Even though fewer in number, these IT…
-
Blog
Db2 for z/OS Buffer Pool Simulation
Jeff Berger - 3 March 2022 For many years the price of z/OS memory has been decreasing, and IBM has been pushing the idea of large amounts of memory. Db2 for z/OS has virtually eliminated its virtual storage constraints. Db2 performs best when it has lots of memory (i.e. real…