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News
IntelliMagic Vision Version 12.0 Enhances Collaboration and Training with New Shareable Dashboard Templates
6 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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Blog
Top ‘IntelliMagic zAcademy’ Webinars of 2022
Morgan Oats - 6 February 2023 With the final zAcademy webinar of the year concluded, I wanted to take the opportunity, as one does this time of year, to reflect on the webinars that resonated most with our mainframe audience of performance and capacity enthusiasts. Because who doesn’t love a…
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Blog
Impact of z14 and z15 Models on Processor Cache and MLC Expenses
Todd Havekost - 6 February 2023 This blog was originally published on April 2, 2018. Relentless pressure to reduce mainframe expenditures and the close correlation between CPU consumption and software expense (in both traditional peak four-hour rolling average licensing models and even more so for the increasingly prevalent consumption models…
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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 - 6 February 2023 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 - 6 February 2023 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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Key Person
John Ticic
John Ticic joined IntelliMagic as a consultant in 2008. He started as mainframe systems programmer in 1984 and maintained, tuned, and upgraded a large number of MVS-based systems. John has extensive experience in planning and implementing large XRC and GDPS/PPRC installations. Furthermore, he developed many STK/SUN VSM performance analysis tools.…