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MQ: How to Extract Insights and Optimize Performance Using SMF Data | IntelliMagic zAcademy

This webinar will introduce you to best practices for enhancing your analysis of MQ Statistics (SMF 115) and Accounting (116) data.

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Interactive FICON Topology Viewer Spotlights Configuration Errors

June 26, 2023 | IntelliMagic Vision's FICON Topology Viewer helps analysts identify configuration errors, ensure that the infrastructure is configured correctly, and reveal undesirable infrastructure changes.

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Where Are All The Performance Analysts? - A Mainframe Roundtable | IntelliMagic zAcademy

We have brought together industry experts from across the board to discuss the importance of having an efficient team managing the performance of their business applications.

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Mainframe Cost Savings Part 3: Address Space Opportunities

This final blog in the mainframe cost reduction series will cover potential CPU reduction opportunities that produce benefits applicable to a specific address space or application.

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How A Db2 Newbie Quickly Spotlights the Root Cause of a Db2 Slowdown

This blog explores how a non-Db2 expert quickly identified latch contention arising from a Data Sharing Index Split as the root cause of a Db2 delay/slowdown.

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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter

Benefits of Analysis Across SMF Data Types

No matter which z/OS subsystem you are primarily responsible for, this article will help you blur the boundaries between the SMF ‘silos’ for each product.

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A Performance Analyst’s Guide to Mainframe zERT Analysis | IntelliMagic zAcademy

This webinar recording will show real use-cases to introduce you to some of the ways to identify security risks and issues within network traffic.

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Mainframe Cost Savings Part 2: 4HRA, zIIP Overflow, XCF, and Db2 Memory

This blog covers several CPU reduction areas, including, moving work outside the monthly peak R4HA interval, reducing zIIP overflow, reducing XCF volumes, and leveraging Db2 memory to reduce I/Os.

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Using zHyperWrite to Improve MQ Logging Performance

In this blog we examine before-and-after measurements of a recent zHyperWrite implementation for MQ logging in a large z/OS environment.

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Translating Application Performance Data into Business Outcomes on z/OS | IntelliMagic zAcademy

In this webinar, we explore practical steps for identifying and prioritizing your business-critical applications, and how to protect and report on their performance.

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Mainframe Cost Savings: Infrastructure Opportunities Part 1: Processor Cache

CPU optimization opportunities applicable across the infrastructure can often by implemented without the involvement of application teams and can benefit a significant portion (or all) of the work across the system.

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How Mainframe Performance Teams are Solving Their Skills Gap Challenges | IntelliMagic zAcademy

This webinar discusses proven strategies being leveraged by companies to optimize mainframe availability and performance.

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