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Blog
Automating Analysis of z/OS Alerts
Jerry Street - 23 April 2018 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 - 23 April 2018 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 - 23 April 2018 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 - 23 April 2018 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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Best Practices for Managing your SAN Performance (Part 2: Reactive)
Brett Allison - 23 April 2018 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
23 April 2018 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…
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Blog
Six Practical Use Cases for AIOps on z/OS
Morgan Oats - 23 April 2018 As the complexity of Information Technology has accelerated, one reaction has been to apply machines to keep machines running smoothly. This phenomenon has been dubbed AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations), and it is basically how machine intelligence solutions are applied to IT operations…
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How to Diagnose IBM Spectrum Virtualize Replication Performance Issues
Brett Allison - 23 April 2018 In part 1 of this blog series, I wrote about how to select your Spectrum Virtualize replication technology that matches your business requirements, or more likely, your budget. Now we need to think about how you can monitor and diagnose Spectrum Virtualize performance issues…
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Blog
Soldiering through z/OS Outsourcing, Insourcing and Change
Jack Opgenorth - 23 April 2018 Despite the growing number of reports that raise concerns with maintaining your mainframe performance while outsourcing z/OS infrastructure, the appeal of outsourcing’s promised benefits has yet to wear off. While having a conversation with a former transportation industry IT executive, we observed over 40…