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Blog
Observability, Availability, Scalability and White Box Analytics
Brett Allison - 5 December 2019 Understanding the latest marketing nomenclature in operational analytics The word ‘observability’ has been thrown around quite a bit in measurement circles over the last couple of years. In this blog, I will describe what observability means, how it relates to availability, how it impacts…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Introduces Automated Change Detection
5 December 2019 IntelliMagic Vision 9.22.0 provides Automated Change Detection. Whether it is a new application or an application behaving poorly, unexpected increases in workloads often lead to performance degradation and costly misuse of systems resources. By quickly identifying changes in workloads, the performance analysts can evaluate whether the increased…
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Video
z/OS Virtual Tape Bridge from Physical to Logical Activity
This video demonstrates the characterization of a problem flagged for a TS7700 (CPU Utilization) and shows the link to then discover the host activity present when the worst of the incident occurred. This information may allow you to adjust the scheduling of portions of this work to avoid too…
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Webinar
Understanding zHyperLink’s Benefits & Limitations to Mainframe IO
zHyperLink: The Holy Grail of Mainframe I/O? Get Notified of Webinars With the z14 processor, IBM introduced zHyperLink, a new way to connect processors and storage that provides very low latency I/O operations. This new technology comes with a set of promises and restrictions that will cause you to…
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Key Person
John Baker
John Baker, Senior z/OS Consultant at IntelliMagic, has been working with mainframes for over 25 years, both as a customer and consultant. His primary focus has been on system and application performance. As a customer, John designed, implemented and maintained many critical projects such as WLM Goal Mode, GDPS/Data Mirroring,…
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Blog
Lower MLC Software Costs with Processor Cache Optimization
Todd Havekost - 5 December 2019 This blog was originally published on March 12, 2018. It is common in today’s challenging business environments to find IT organizations intensely focused on expense reduction. For mainframe departments, this often leads to high priority expense reduction initiatives for IBM Monthly License Charge (MLC)…
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Webinar
Improve z/OS Storage Operations with Better Operational Intelligence
Focusing on z/OS storage operations and performance, this webinar will demonstrate how to leverage mainframe performance data to provide predictive intelligence that will enhance your availability and bring value to your z/OS ops and performance management teams. During the webinar, Lee and Burt will demonstrate how you can:…
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Video
How to Resolve Unequal Distribution of Infinidat Workloads
Troubleshooting Infinidat Performance Issues One of the most common issues with managing performance and capacity on Infinidat storage platforms is unequal distribution of the workload across the front-end ports. In Infinidat systems, the front-end ports are typically connected at two hosts in groups of 6 ports. In an optimally functioning…
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Whitepaper
TS7700 Performance Analysis
Learn how to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape performance This white paper demonstrates how you can achieve optimal performance on your IBM TS7700 virtual tape subsystems. Easily troubleshoot and resolve issues, and set up automatic monitoring for your virtual tape health and performance, allowing you to do…
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Blog
IBM TS7700 Replication – Is Your Data Safe? (Part 2 of 2)
One of the challenges in IT is getting your data replicated to a remote location for fail-over and data recovery if your main operations center is compromised. It is not sufficient to set up replication, you also have to watch closely whether your replication goals are met at all times.…