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Webinar
Analysis and Monitoring of Db2 & CICS SMF Performance Data
Add Predictive & Prescriptive Value to Your CICS & Db2 Monitoring Process Get Notified of Webinars Db2 for z/OS, and CICS that often drives much of the Db2 usage, generate some of the most voluminous infrastructure operations data on the z/OS platform. The data is so massive and…
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Blog
The Circle of (Storage) Life
Lee LaFrese - 28 March 2019 Remember the Lion King? Simba starts off as a little cub, and his father, Mufasa, is king. Over time, Simba goes through a lot of growing pains but eventually matures to take over his father’s role despite the best efforts of his Uncle Scar…
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Video
Availability Intelligence for End-to-End SAN Performance & Capacity
End Availability Issues to Your Enterprise Data Storage You invested in your enterprise data storage systems because of their high-end performance and data integrity capabilities. In fact, reliably fast data access for your organization is like blood is to the body. If the data stops flowing, the rest of…
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Blog
Should I Turn WLM I/O Priority Management On or Off?
Jerry Street - 28 March 2019 I have lived in the same metropolitan area for my whole life. I have never had any compulsion to leave my beloved Colorado. And as such, I have had the opportunity to observe the successes and failures of the city planners as the Denver…
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Blog
Understanding How Logical Workloads Behave On Physical Hardware
Lee LaFrese - 28 March 2019 When large scale disk storage systems were originally introduced, a volume, as seen by the operating system, corresponded to a physical disk drive. The IBM 3390 is considered the last of these “SLEDs” (Single Large Expensive Disks) in the mainframe world. To this day,…
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Webinar
MQ: How to Extract Insights and Optimize Performance Using SMF Data | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Despite the fact that MQ is widely used across today’s z/OS environments and its SMF data offers rich potential insights for its management and operation, sites often report challenges in realizing the potential value of this data. This can arise from factors including the limitations of available MQ tooling, overwhelming…
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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
Reporting on Tailored Fit Pricing Software Consumption
Tracking MSU Consumption to Optimize Your TFP Contract It seems that most mainframe sites have already been approached by IBM with a Tailored Fit Pricing proposal. The most common and most popular option, Software Consumption (previously Enterprise Consumption), is a fundamentally different pricing model to the traditional Rolling 4-Hour Average-based…
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Blog
IntelliMagic Sessions at IDUG Charlotte 2019
Morgan Oats - 28 March 2019 Last week IntelliMagic sponsored our first IDUG Db2 User Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and had a great time at the show. After releasing our support for Db2 for z/OS earlier this year, we decided to sponsor the North American IDUG conference to meet…
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Blog
Troubleshooting WLM Missed Goals with CICS Transaction Data
Todd Havekost - 28 March 2019 In normal situations our two eyes work together to provide the many facets of visibility we typically take for granted. If a setback occurs that causes the loss of sight in one eye, studies show this negatively impacts our ability to accurately track moving…
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News
Near Real-Time processing of RMF and SMF data sources released in 8.14.2 of IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS
28 March 2019 IntelliMagic, innovator in intelligent IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) software, today expanded its world-class performance and availability solution, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, to support near real-time processing and loading of SMF and RMF data. With IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, companies have end-to-end z/OS infrastructure visibility to prevent service…