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Blog
Mainframe Security’s Latest Tool for Ensuring Encryption Standards are Met
Todd Havekost - 11 February 2020 With all the focus on securing customer data in today’s enterprises, one of the most challenging jobs is that of the network administrator who is responsible for ensuring that all data being transmitted (especially outside the data center) is encrypted as prescribed by corporate…
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CPUs, Cache, Nest and RNI report set
11 February 2020 Building on the z16 support released recently, IntelliMagic Vision version 11.8.0 provides additional insights into processor cache metrics through the new “CPUs, Cache, Nest and RNI” report set in the Processor Hardware focal point. The IBM z16 architecture is very different from the z14 and z15, but…
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White Box Analysis Vs. Black Box Statistical Performance Analysis
This short video discusses the differences between white box analysis and black box analysis for RMF/SMF performance management and is excerpted from a webinar. Watch the full webinar, “RMF/SMF Analysis – Get Ahead of the Curve with Statistical Analysis” here. Many new z/OS performance analytics solutions talk about black…
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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
Db2 Statistics – They’re Not Just for Buffer Pools
Understanding SMF 100 Statistics Records Db2 produces three types of SMF records with the type 100 records containing statistics data. When thinking of Db2 statistics records, many people first think of buffer pool tuning, and while tuning buffer pools provides a wealth of opportunity, this article covers the other aspects…
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High SAN Port Utilization
This video demonstrates how to identify hot ports in your SAN fabric. Related Resources Blog Performance Analysis Leads to Improved Mainframe Security Common views across technical silos helps foster effective communication and delivers timely responses to infrastructure and application changes without sacrificing safety. Read more Blog Mainframe encryption causes…
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How to Measure the Benefits of Db2 Buffer Pool Tuning
How to approach measuring the benefits of buffer pool tuning initiatives, which are likely to be primarily realized in this small set of average elapsed time metrics. View Buffer Efficiency from IFCID 199 and SMF 42 View Exploring Other Db2 Statistics Metrics More Db2 Statistics Videos Exploring Assessments…
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Getting to Know Your WebSphere for z/OS Workload
Dennis Moore - 11 February 2020 For many mainframe performance/capacity specialists, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) can be a bit of a mystery – a black box of resource consumption that’s hard to get your arms around. There are many areas of WebSphere that can leave even a seasoned z/OS performance…
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Detect z/OS Performance Anomalies, Patterns, and Trends
How to Compare z/OS Workloads to Previous Day/Week/Month Comparing workload profiles for a yesterday to the same weekday for a prior week often reveals optimization opportunities that could eventually become disasters looking for a date. Easy visibility to data offers the capability to quickly compare values from the current…
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z/OS Performance Availability and Cost Optimization Best Practices
Morgan Oats - 11 February 2020 Why is performance availability and cost optimization on z/OS so difficult? z/OS has a richer source of machine-generated performance and configuration data than any other enterprise computing platform in the form of RMF and SMF data, so the problem certainly isn’t a lack of…
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Game Changer for z/OS Transaction Reporting
Todd Havekost - 11 February 2020 Periodically, a change comes to an industry that introduces a completely new and improved way to accomplish an existing task that had previously been difficult, if not daunting. Netflix transformed the home movie viewing industry by offering video streaming that was convenient, affordable, and…