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Webinar
Enhanced Analysis Through Integrating CICS and Other Types of SMF Data | IntelliMagic zAcademy
This session expands beyond CICS-specific Transaction and Statistics data (SMF 110.1, 110.2) and examines ways CICS analysis can be enhanced through integration with SMF data from other components across the z platform. Gain a better understanding of how your analysis can be enriched by integrating insights from different z/OS data…
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Whitepaper
Reporting on Coupling Facility Health and Performance
Learn how to effectively monitor your z/OS Coupling Facility The Coupling Facility is used by most z/OS components and major applications so any delays in the coupling facility or CF links will impact just about any aspect of the performance of the mainframe. This white paper demonstrates how to effectively…
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Blog
AI: Too Much of a Good Thing
Jack Opgenorth - 26 January 2024 One of my first exposures to algorithms that made automatic adjustments was related to travel & transportation. Over three decades ago, deregulation drove airlines to introduce software in the availability and pricing of their inventory to maximize profit. The applications were ‘yield management’, and…
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Blog
Four Steps You Should Take to Identify, Resolve and Prevent IBM SVC Front-End Imbalance
Brett Allison - 26 January 2024 Did you know you could be at risk of a performance meltdown while you still have plenty of front-end bandwidth? An imbalanced front-end can cripple the performance of your IBM SVC system. An imbalanced front-end is another way of saying that too much workload is…
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Blog
Reduce MLC Software Costs by Optimizing LPAR Configurations
Todd Havekost - 26 January 2024 This blog was originally published on March 19, 2018. A prominent theme among IT organizations today is an intense focus on expense reduction. For mainframe departments, this routinely involves seeking to reduce software expense from IBM and other vendors, which commonly represents the dominant…
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Whitepaper
Monitor the Performance and Resource Usage of WebSphere Transactions
Get instant access to key WebSphere metrics IBM’s WebSphere is the webserver for z/OS. It has a long history, during which various monitoring records were developed. The SMF 120 subtype 9 is the culmination of this history for transactions: it provides the details on where the work runs (which cluster,…
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Blog
5 Reasons Why All-Flash Arrays Won’t Magically Solve All Your Problems
Brett Allison - 26 January 2024 In the last few years, flash storage has turned from very expensive into quite affordable. Vendors that sell all-flash arrays advertise the extremely low latencies, and those are indeed truly impressive. So it may feel like all-flash systems will solve all your performance issues. But reality…
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Brochure
Smarter IT Operations Analytics (ITOA)
Download the Brochure The availability of your business applications is very important. Your company has extensive business continuity measures in place, because down time is expensive and hurts the business. However, performance issues and configuration errors in your SAN or z/OS environment regularly cause incidents that bring down applications just like a…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Adds CICS Statistics Automated Analysis
26 January 2024 IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS release 10.9.0 includes major enhancements to reporting on CICS SMF data letting you monitor the performance and resource usage of your mission critical applications and transactions. CICS is the leading z/OS application server used by the majority of the Fortune 500 companies in…
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Video
Coupling Facility Request Rate: Automated Change Detection Use Case 5
Key coupling facility performance metrics at the structure level include synchronous and asynchronous request rates and service times, making them attractive candidates for Change Detection. In this use case, a significant increase in the rate of asynchronous requests occurred for a high-volume structure. View Db2 Getpage Rate View Batch…