Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) Filtering Capabilities & Benefits
The goal of analyzing Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) usage is to ultimately manage and reduce your MSU usage, and thus MLC costs.
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 avoiding MLC charges on unintended usage and much more.
Getting to Know Your WebSphere for z/OS Workload
There are many areas of WebSphere that can leave even a seasoned z/OS performance specialist scratching their head. The SMF 120-9 records give us a great way to measure and understand our WebSphere workloads like never before.
Imagine How Much You Can Learn from SMF Data | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Gain a vision for how rapidly you could leverage easy visibility into RMF and SMF data to expand your understanding of how the z/OS ecosystem operates.
Monitoring TCP/IP Performance for z/OS with SMF 119 Metrics
Gain visibility into the mainframe TCP/IP communications infrastructure performance with SMF 119 metrics. Numerous activity and utilization metrics are reported.
Avoid Inefficiencies with Store Into Instruction Stream (SIIS) Assessments
Programs that store data into the instruction stream introduce major inefficiencies into CPU performance. Updating SIIS programs can result in significant reduction of CPU utilization.
z/OS Virtual Tape Infrastructure Availability Monitoring
Ensuring performance and proper operation of the z/OS virtual tape infrastructure is mission-critical and provides secure and reliable offline storage for “air-gap” data protection.
Reduce Latency and Lower Demand as You Create the Capacity Plan
Mainframe capacity planning is an important budgetary input. If you ensure your performance is in order or have mentioned some efficiency recommendations, you will help keep your organization lean and productive.
zERT: Breakthrough in Visibility for Managing Encryption of Network Traffic
This article provides a great introduction to zERT and ways to increase the benefit you can derive from this data.
Mainframe Security’s Latest Tool for Ensuring Encryption Standards are Met
zERT data can enable the mainframe security team to both evaluate ongoing adherence to security policies and programmatically provide data for required reporting to auditors and compliance officers.
zIIPing Along
Despite the benefits - zIIP processors are typically less expensive to purchase and also run at full speed on sub-capacity CPU models - zIIP processor usage may not always be what one hopes for.
2020 Vision into z/OS Infrastructure Operation and Availability
More than ever before there is a need to see faster, farther, and deeper into the operation and performance of z/OS infrastructure areas. View this webinar to learn how.