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From Taped Walls to Your PC: z/OS Configuration Made Simple with Topology | IntelliMagic zAcademy

In this webinar, we explore a technique that integrates diverse data sources from z/OS, presenting them in a clear, concise, and interactive visual format.

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How to Find Sick But Not Dead (SBND) TS7700 Tape Clusters

Rather than waiting for a remote VTS to fail, you should be reviewing these key TS7700 reports to determine if remote clusters are receiving replication data or not.

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How to Make the Best of IBM’s TS7700 Virtual Tape Solution | IntelliMagic zAcademy

Watch this webinar if you’ve ever experienced frustrating performance issues or just want to ensure your TS7700 environment is optimized per best practices.

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z/OS Virtual Tape Infrastructure Availability Monitoring

Ensuring performance and proper operation of the z/OS virtual tape infrastructure is mission-critical and provides secure and reliable offline storage for “air-gap” data protection.

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Best Practices for Managing z/OS Virtual Tape Performance

This webinar covers the best practices for managing your virtual tape environment, with particular focus on IBM TS7700 and Oracle VSM environment

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Application Design Issues Cause Low Throughput to Virtual Tape

IntelliMagic Vision proactively identifies risks in your virtual tape environment and highlights potential issues before they have fully developed.

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What’s Using Up All My Tapes? – Using Tape Management Catalog Data

In addition to the SMF and TS7700 BVIR data, IntelliMagic Vision can also process information from a Tape Management Catalog (TMC).

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Video

z/OS Tape Workload Distributions

If you have multiple Oracle VSM’s or multiple IBM TS7700 clusters, this video shows an example of how IntelliMagic Vision can easily let you see how well your tape workloads are balanced across the VSM’s or TS7700’s.

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z/OS Virtual Tape Bridge from Physical to Logical Activity

This session 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.

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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.

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Are my Tape RPO's Being Met?

This video demonstrates how IntelliMagic Vision identified the replication from two host clusters to a third DR cluster getting significantly behind and not meeting their SLA’s for Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Meet its Objectives? Analyzing TS7700 Tape Replication (Part 1 of 2)

This blog is the first in a series of two blogs on the topic of Mainframe Virtual Tape Replication.

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