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Blog
How an Unexpected Drop in Response Time Led to a Quick Permanent Replication Improvement
Jack Opgenorth - 28 February 2023 When performance analysis often focuses on response time increases, why should I care about a response time drop? Capacity-driven-analysis tells us when we run out of CPU, memory, disk, and more. Another primary focus on increases looks for stress in the environment. These tendencies…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Version 12.0 Enhances Collaboration and Training with New Shareable Dashboard Templates
28 February 2023 For performance analysts and capacity planners of large enterprise environments, collaboration between the various infrastructure teams is essential. Designed with this in mind, IntelliMagic Vision makes it easy to share information between teams to facilitate faster issue resolution and cross-functional training. With the latest release, IntelliMagic Vision…
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Video
Avoid MLC Charges on Unintended Usage Data Using SMF 89 Records
The SMF 89 record type stores the CPU of each registered Sub-Capacity product over time. This is useful for finding out: which address spaces are registering which products on which systems product version product qualifiers (which relates to subsystem names for DB2 and MQ and components for IMS) CPU…
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Blog
Automating Analysis of z/OS Alerts
Jerry Street - 28 February 2023 You are nowhere near your workstation, and you receive an urgent text that z/OS has an unexpected increase in CPU utilization. While the alert is beneficial, it would be more helpful if you had all the information you needed to diagnose the issue in…
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Blog
How to Find Sick But Not Dead (SBND) TS7700 Tape Clusters
Merle Sadler - 28 February 2023 Head lights on new cars are really bright and look great for the driver. Because of this, it is nearly impossible to know while driving the car that one of them has stopped working. Everybody else on the road can tell though, and the…
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Video
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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Blog
What Will Happen to Your MICS or MXG Legacy When You Retire?
Brent Phillips - 28 February 2023 The deep experts on z/OS infrastructure performance are retiring in growing numbers. Their expertise cannot be replaced with new hires. When that golden day of retirement arrives for you, what will happen to that SAS and MXG or MICS reporting toolset that you spent…
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Blog
How are my Disk Storage Systems doin’?
Stuart Plotkin - 28 February 2023 Ed Koch was mayor of New York City for 12 years. He was famous for stopping people on the streets and asking them, “How am I doin’?” I have met many IT professionals who have asked the same question about their disk storage systems.…
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Blog
Best Practices for Managing your SAN Performance (Part 2: Reactive)
Brett Allison - 28 February 2023 Part one of this blog talked about being proactive – but that is not enough. There is too much uncertainty in the world, and you need to be reactive when things don’t quite go as planned. Once again, let’s look to the dictionary for…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Adds Time Interval Comparison Feature to z/OS Topology Viewer
28 February 2023 Optimal processor configuration results in optimized processor cache usage, which is important for lowering CPU costs. The IntelliMagic Vision Topology Viewer enables performance analysts to analyze and optimally configure their processor configuration with greater visibility and access to key data. IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS version 11.7.0 significantly…