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Blog
z/OS Application Performance Insights – Recapping SHARE St. Louis
Morgan Oats - 20 August 2018 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…
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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,…
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Webinar
New to z/OS Performance? 10 Ways to Help Maintain Performance and Cost | IntelliMagic zAcademy
In this session, our z/OS experts John Baker and Jerry Street share 10 essential strategies for optimizing performance and controlling costs in your mainframe environment. Whether you’re a seasoned mainframe professional seeking to refine or test your skills or a newcomer navigating the complexities of z/OS performance management, this webinar…
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News
What’s New with IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS? 2024.1
20 August 2018 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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Video
Db2 Accounting: Exploring Elapsed Time Profiles
The many timing buckets captured in the Db2 Accounting data enable great visibility into the elapsed time profiles of work executing within Db2. This is particularly powerful when combined with the capability to easily subset this data by criteria captured in these records including connection type, correlation ID, authorization…
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Blog
What’s Using Up All My Tapes? – Using Tape Management Catalog Data
Dave Heggen - 20 August 2018 Most of the data processed for IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Tape is performance, event or activity driven, obtained from SMF and the Virtual Tape Hardware. Did you know that in addition to the SMF and TS7700 BVIR data, IntelliMagic Vision could also process information…
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Blog
Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 3 “The Ugly”
Brett Allison - 20 August 2018 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 3 “The Ugly” In the first part of this three-part blog I introduced the SMI project and provided some reasons why it is a good thing. In the second installment I discussed some of the challenges with SMI project,…
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Blog
Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 2 “The Bad”
Brett Allison - 20 August 2018 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 2 “The Bad” In my first installment of this 3 part blog I discussed the reason for SMI-S and the goodness that it has brought to the world. SMI-S though, like my favorite dark chocolate, is often…
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Blog
Mainframe Cost Savings Part 2: 4HRA, zIIP Overflow, XCF, and Db2 Memory
Todd Havekost - 20 August 2018 Software is the primary component in today’s world that drives mainframe expenses, and software expense correlates to CPU consumption in almost all license models. In this blog series, I cover several areas where possible CPU reduction (and thus mainframe cost savings) can be achieved.…
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Blog
Stretched in 2020?
Jack Opgenorth - 20 August 2018 As a seasoned IT performance and capacity specialist, I’ve had to consider some unexpected challenges over the years. September 11th, 2001 and the impacts to travel & transportation that ensued might be similar to what we’re being confronted with today. Regardless, this certainly has…