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Blog
How’s Your Flash Doing?
Joe Hyde - 29 November 2016 Assessing Flash Effectiveness How’s your Flash doing? Admittedly, this is a bit of a loaded question. It could come from your boss, a colleague or someone trying to sell you the next storage widget. Since most customers are letting the vendors’ proprietary storage management…
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Blog
Viewing Connections Between CICS Regions, Db2 Data Sharing Groups, and MQ Queue Managers
Todd Havekost - 29 November 2016 One key success factor in managing today’s mainframe environments is having a good handle on the multitude of connections between CICS regions, Db2 data sharing groups and members, and MQ queue managers. Having good visibility into these complex configurations can help CICS, Db2, and…
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Blog
Conserving MSUs – Déjà vu All Over Again
Dennis Moore - 29 November 2016 This blog was originally published on October 18, 2021. With more and more customers moving to IBM’s Software Consumption (Previously Enterprise Consumption) solution within Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP), it may be time to revisit some of the old tried-and-true MSU tuning strategies. With Software…
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Webinar
Boost the Value You Derive from CICS and Db2 SMF Data through a Modernized Approach | IntelliMagic zAcademy
This session will present the benefits of modernizing how you understand and leverage SMF data for CICS and Db2 Performance analysis. Instead of being overwhelmed by massive volumes of CICS and Db2 SMF data and combing through countless static reports, discover how interactive analysis using an intuitive GUI interface with…
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Video
Who’s Using Up All My Tapes?
This video demonstrates the categorization of the tape library into application usage (Volume Groups) and then shows the detailed records of the present usage of tape for that application. From this information it may be reasonable to either justify or question the necessity of this usage. Related Resources Video…
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Whitepaper
NetApp Cluster Mode Architecture, Performance Analysis, and Best Practices
Best Practices for configuration, key performance metrics, and interpreting the metrics NetApp arrays have been a mainstay in most datacenters for over a decade – most companies have at least one NetApp cluster in production. While they are most well-known for serving NAS protocols, they are also quite capable in…
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Blog
IntelliMagic at SHARE Pittsburgh
Morgan Oats - 29 November 2016 After a week of informative sessions, networking, technical workshops, and overall fun, that’s a wrap on SHARE Pittsburgh. IntelliMagic continued our proud tradition of sponsoring SHARE and joined in on the “sharing” of knowledge with seven different sessions, covering topics from modernizing RMF/SMF performance…
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Blog
Mainframe Capacity “Through the Looking Glass”
Todd Havekost - 29 November 2016 With the recent release of “Alice Through the Looking Glass” (my wife is a huge Johnny Depp fan), it seems only appropriate to write on a subject epitomized by Alice’s famous words: “What if I should fall right through the center of the earth…
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Brochure
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS
Download the Brochure IntelliMagic Vision provides the performance and capacity team with all the information they need to make superior decisions and attain their goals of ensuring application availability. Everything you need to proactively prevent disruptions is there, hidden in the millions of SMF and RMF data points. To effectively leverage this data, you need the…
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Webinar
Imagine How Much You Can Learn Exploring MQ Statistics and Accounting Data | IntelliMagic zAcademy
Get Notified of Upcoming Webinars MQ Statistics and Accounting SMF data provides extremely useful insights into MQ management and operation. Unfortunately, extracting those insights from the SMF 115 and SMF 116 record types is challenging – and raw data pulls lack context or accessibility. Our learning journey will include:…