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Key Person
John Baker
John Baker, Senior z/OS Consultant at IntelliMagic, has been working with mainframes for over 25 years, both as a customer and consultant. His primary focus has been on system and application performance. As a customer, John designed, implemented and maintained many critical projects such as WLM Goal Mode, GDPS/Data Mirroring,…
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Webinar
Insights into New XCF Path Usage Metrics | IntelliMagic zAcademy
XCF Transport Class simplification functionality was implemented in z/OS 2.4, with an objective to eliminate the need for separately managed transport classes at most sites. This new functionality has generally been well-received and has been effective in accomplishing its objective of minimizing the XCF customization activity required by systems programmers.…
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Customer Experience
The Core of Storage Performance Management Processes at Finanz Informatik
Finanz Informatik, one of the largest banking IT service providers in Europe, relies on IntelliMagic Vision, a DASD performance monitoring solution, as a fundamental component of their storage performance management processes. This has enabled service level agreements at Finanz Informatik to be successfully and efficiently enforced during the previous years.…
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Blog
The Storage Management Initiative (SMI): the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 1 “The Good”
Brett Allison - 12 November 2018 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 1 “The Good” In 1966, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach starred in the epic western, “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” where three very diverse and dubious characters worked at times…
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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
zEDC Metrics Changes on z15 and z16 Processors
How Moving zEDC to NXU Enhanced Compression Throughput and Elapsed Time Facing well-known limitations on potential improvements to cycle speed, IBM has been actively pursuing other approaches to achieve throughput and performance improvements in new generations of Z processors. The focus of this Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter article is on…
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Webinar
Use Cases Leveraging Db2 Accounting Data to Optimize Your Environment | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Db2 Accounting data can provide a very rich source of insights into your workloads and performance. This recording will present several real-life examples where good visibility into Accounting data enables issues to be detected and resolved or insights to be derived. Examples will include: Ways to get to the bottom…
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Blog
You Can’t Do Performance Analysis with SMI-S and Other Myths
Brett Allison - 12 November 2018 Some vendors are perpetuating the myth that SMI-S is not designed for performance management. Recently some of our customers asked a vendor to surface additional performance metrics through SMI-S. They received a response along the lines of: “SMI-S is not supposed to handle performance…
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Blog
Beat the Annual MLC Software Price Increase
Todd Havekost - 12 November 2018 In August, IBM announced their annual 4% increase in z Systems Monthly License Charge (MLC) software prices. It was indicated in the announcement letter that the timing of the announcement is designed to give customers sufficient lead time to adjust their budgets for the…
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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
Making Sense of the Many I/O Count Fields in SMF | Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter
Discover why different fields in SMF records have different values SMF is often used as an example of a z/OS capability that is still unmatched by other platforms. Even diehard UNIX or Windows fans salivate when they see the insights SMF provides into what is happening on z/OS. The SMF…
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Video
Is Coupling Facility Using Too Much CPU?
Identify Root Causes of Coupling Facility Configuration Issues This video demonstrates how you can identify performance issues and root causes for issues in your z/OS Coupling Facility configuration. Addressing these issues could save you precious CPU. Doing more for less money is the goal of every business, and this…