Reduce Latency and Lower Demand as You Create the Capacity Plan
Mainframe capacity planning is an important budgetary input. If you ensure your performance is in order or have mentioned some efficiency recommendations, you will help keep your organization lean and productive.
zERT: Breakthrough in Visibility for Managing Encryption of Network Traffic
This article provides a great introduction to zERT and ways to increase the benefit you can derive from this data.
Mainframe Security’s Latest Tool for Ensuring Encryption Standards are Met
zERT data can enable the mainframe security team to both evaluate ongoing adherence to security policies and programmatically provide data for required reporting to auditors and compliance officers.
zIIPing Along
Despite the benefits - zIIP processors are typically less expensive to purchase and also run at full speed on sub-capacity CPU models - zIIP processor usage may not always be what one hopes for.
2020 Vision into z/OS Infrastructure Operation and Availability
More than ever before there is a need to see faster, farther, and deeper into the operation and performance of z/OS infrastructure areas. View this webinar to learn how.
Avoiding High Asynchronous Replication Response Times on z/OS Disk
What to do when you have ongoing exceptions for high asynchronous replication response times on one of your primary disk subsystems.
Managing the Gap in IT Spending and Revenue Growth in your Capacity Planning Efforts
Capacity planning is important, but don’t let the importance of future capacity needs for the budget drive you to overlook opportunities to building a bridge toward better performance and longer term efficiencies.
Throwing out the Rolling Four-Hour Average with Tailored Fit Pricing, Software Consumption
The Rolling 4-Hour Average (R4HA) is a measurement of your average speed, over four hours; Tailored Fit Pricing measures precisely how far you drove.
Observability, Availability, Scalability and White Box Analytics
In this blog, we describe what observability means, how it relates to availability, how it impacts scalability and how IntelliMagic Vision fits into the observability landscape.
Intelligent Analysis of TCP/IP z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology Summary Data
TCP/IP’s z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) feature provides a single source of data to determine which traffic to and from your site is cryptographically protected by protocols like TLS, SSH, and IPSec, and which is not protected.
How to Use IBM’s zERT to Identify Unencrypted Connections
The primary use of the zERT data is likely to be the identification and remediation of unencrypted connections.
AIOps for Smarter CICS and Db2 SMF Performance Analysis
The massive volumes of CICS and Db2 SMF data and countless static reports can be overwhelming. Discover the benefits of modernizing how you understand and leverage SMF data for CICS and Db2 Performance analysis.