Ensure Sufficient Capacity & Consistent Performance for IBM zEDC
One challenge many mainframe sites experience with their legacy SMF reporting is keeping up with emerging technologies. IBM’s z Enterprise Data Compression (zEDC) is one of those emerging technologies that represent a new component in your infrastructure that must be properly managed.
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Systems provides the visibility you need to effectively manage zEDC (along with all the other critical aspects of your z/OS infrastructure). With this solution, you’ll be able to:
- Ensure sufficient capacity and consistent performance
- Access flexible drilldowns to see data at various levels
- Visualize a comprehensive set of reports to effectively manage performance
Monitor zEDC Usage & Optimize Performance
zEDC hardware compression has numerous benefits:
- Relatively straightforward and inexpensive to implement
- Can be leveraged by numerous widely used access methods and products
- Reduces disk storage requirements and I/O elapsed times
- Minimal CPU cost since almost all the processing is offloaded to the hardware.
However, without proper visibility and management, these benefits can largely be lost. In addition to card utilizations, IntelliMagic Vision provides a comprehensive set of reports including compression ratios, service and queue times, and request rates and throughput. And using the highly flexible drill-down capabilities of IntelliMagic Vision, this data can be viewed at the processor, system, card, or address space level.
Key Features
Consolidated Health Viewpoint
Visualize the health and performance of your entire environment through high-level dashboards, with drilldowns into hundreds of rated reports and metrics
Interactive Data Navigation
Accelerate performance analysis through GUI-based, intuitive, context-sensitive drilldowns
Global Filtering
Streamline navigation and problem resolution by filtering reports and variables based on dozens of criteria and applying changes globally to all reporting
Historical Reporting and Analysis
Get historical context of workloads and metrics by comparing dashboards with any previous time interval; easily display monthly trends
Customizable Reports
Easily customize charts, combine variables to analyze correlations, code-free to quickly access and visualize relevant data for your needs
Flexible Report Sharing & Exporting
Easily and safely share reports with colleagues and management to highlight issues, accelerate resolutions, or export reports or data
Automated Report Analysis
Setup fully automated processing and reporting so that a chosen set of daily reports can automatically be emailed or placed on a shared location
Health at a Glance
Ratings based on criteria including hardware specifications and best practices (e.g., from IBM Redbooks) reflect upcoming risks and current performance exceptions
Root Cause Analysis
Numeric ratings indicate risk severity and include explanations and recommendations to quickly identify and resolve root cause
Get in Touch
Have questions about our capabilities for zEDC and other z/OS Systems areas or want to set up a demo? Our experts are more than happy to answer any questions you have!
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