New Year Health Assessment for Your IT Systems
A suitable ongoing ‘health assessment’ for Coupling Facility activity provides a proactive stance and positioning to address the cost and complexity of your major mainframe applications.
How long is the line, and why? Practical Applications of Queueing Theory for The Rest of Us | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Look at the applications that are impacted as utilization increases, and whether you need more hardware or can optimize with tuning.
IntelliMagic Vision Supports Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) and Offers TFP Analysis Services
Dec 7, 2020 | IntelliMagic Vision supports Tailored Fit Pricing and TFP analysis services. The new reports and drilldowns address common questions for those customers already on TFP, and to those that are considering TFP.
Transparency in z/OS Infrastructure Performance Analysis | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Discover how to easily break down the silos one application at a time to achieve greater transparency and collaboration.
Reporting on Tailored Fit Pricing Software Consumption
Discover ways to track your MSU consumption, and how to identify and investigate situations where your actual consumption is out of line with the expected consumption.
Mainframe encryption causes higher demand in TCP/IP address space
Many shops are using IBM’s pervasive encryption to protect their mainframe's integrity, but how do we get in front of the mainframe impacts or know which encryption methods might meet security requirements at lower cost?
Stretched in 2020?
This year has certainly stretched everyone. Learn some ways to overcome some new and unexpected challenges that likely weren’t even on your radar in January.
Preparing for and Managing Peak Periods | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Ensure easy visibility and management of infrastructure workload peaks by quantifying risk and accelerating problem resolution times.
Your Datacenter Under TFP: The New Rules of Measurement | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Tailored Fit Pricing is no longer an abstract concept. In this webinar, Cheryl Watson and John Baker share their insights on managing and monitoring TFP.
Health Insights and Change Detection
To help enhance the value you can derive from that SMF data, IntelliMagic Vision provides two complementary types of automated anomaly detection: health insights and change detection.
CICS Max Tasks: Automated Change Detection Use Case 7
View a CICS Max Tasks use case where Change Detection and Health Assessments play complementary roles in flagging serious issues.
Batch Job Elapsed Time: Automated Change Detection Use Case 6
Elapsed and CPU times can be of interest for batch jobs, especially those on the critical path for key business job cycles. This use case reflects an abnormally long run time for a daily batch job, and illustrates how potential causes might be investigated.