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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
Job-level CPU Saving Opportunities in a Software Consumption Environment
Top CPU Saving Opportunities to Focus CPU Reduction Initiatives Instead of being driven only by CPU usage during the monthly peak four-hour interval as with the current R4HA model, under IBM’s Software Consumption solution (previously Enterprise Consumption) within Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP), software is charged based on the total accumulated…
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Blog
Avoiding High Asynchronous Replication Response Times on z/OS Disk
Dennis Moore - 1 June 2021 For large z/OS sites, daily performance monitoring is critical. Every minute of IT unavailability can be extremely costly to the business, so these sites employ the best staff and solutions available to keep their infrastructure always available. Through daily proactive performance reviews, one such…
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Webinar
End-to-End Storage Infrastructure Analytics with Topology Viewer
Get Notified of Webinars Most environments have hidden availability risks because getting insights in the end-to-end risks, from the VMware guest through the SAN fabric to the Storage LUN, is difficult to accomplish in practice. It requires many relationships from a variety of sources. It is time for a…
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Blog
How Far Behind is My Asynchronous Replication?
Lee LaFrese - 1 June 2021 Time is Not Always on Your Side In the 1960s the Rolling Stones had a hit song called “Time is On My Side”. Don’t you wish it really was? Too often in our jobs and personal life time seems to be the enemy. Too…
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Whitepaper
How to use the Application Groups in IntelliMagic Vision
Learn how to easily understand the performance and behavior of your z/OS applications IntelliMagic Vision allows you to view your z/OS data from the application perspective and comes with a rich default set to recognize major applications and consumers like DB2, IMS, CICS, MQ and VSAM RLS, and provides insight…
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Blog
Top ‘IntelliMagic zAcademy’ Webinars of 2023
Morgan Oats - 1 June 2021 As year-end approaches I wanted to continue the tradition of looking back on the IntelliMagic zAcademy webinars that resonated most with our mainframe audience. Since 2020, IntelliMagic zAcademy has offered free, educational z/OS webinars to the mainframe community. In 2023, we reached our 50th…
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Blog
IFCID 199 – “DNA” for Investigating Db2 Buffer Pool Performance
Todd Havekost - 1 June 2021 The article, “Thirty years of DNA forensics: How DNA has revolutionized criminal investigations” captures the fascinating story from 1987 of the first person to be apprehended for committing murder by leveraging DNA technology. It goes on to say that “DNA profiling has become the…
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Webinar
SAN Fabric 101: Storage Area Network Trends and Fundamentals
Get Notified of Upcoming Webinars This webinar provides insight into the key components of a storage network and helps you understand more about the history and trends in storage network technology. Topics include: Trends – historical trends as well as where the current trends are leading Switch Platforms –…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Adds SMF Field Name Mapping to Live Report Editor
1 June 2021 IntelliMagic Vision has long supported the ability to no-code and live-edit reports directly in our GUI. With version 12.1 IntelliMagic Vision provides the capability to reference and add variables by SMF field names, significantly enhancing analysis capabilities and explainability. This enables users to easily identify and investigate…
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Blog
AIOps, Mainframe Monitoring, MLC Optimization, Oh My: Hot Mainframe Topics of 2018
Morgan Oats - 1 June 2021 Okay, so it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “lions, tigers, and bears”, but one can try. As we are nearing the close of 2018, I wanted to reflect on the world of mainframe performance monitoring and RMF/SMF analysis and provide…