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zHyperLink: The Holy Grail of Mainframe I/O?

This white paper will discuss IBM’s positioning of the new zHyperLink technology, and provides some considerations for installations that consider to deploy it.

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Predictive Intelligence for z/OS Systems Infrastructure

Learn how to apply predictive intelligence to your z/OS Systems infrastructure analysis.

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IntelliMagic Vision in GDPS Environments

This IntelliMagic White Paper provides a brief overview of how IntelliMagic Vision complements IBM’s Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) solution.

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How to use the Application Groups in IntelliMagic Vision

IntelliMagic Vision comes with a rich default set to recognize major applications and consumers like DB2, IMS, CICS, MQ and VSAM RLS, and provides insight in what keeps your mainframe busy.

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Intelligent Storage Capacity Management

An introduction to managing storage capacity in enterprise bloc-level storage environments. Learn about key activities in the area of performance capacity planning.

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Storage Performance Analysis for an IBM DS8000

This white paper discusses the I/O path for the IBM DS8000 series storage systems and offers tips for recognizing and understanding performance issues.

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Storage Performance Analysis for an IBM Storwize V7000

Examine several of the key metrics for the IBM Storwize V7000 storage system to see how IntelliMagic Vision easily identifies imbalances and service level exceptions.

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Get the Most Out of Dell EMC PAV Optimizer

Learn how to select the best candidates for Dell EMC PAV Optimizer, allowing you to implement it in phases, starting with the I/O operations with highest performance potential.

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z/OS Real and Virtual Storage Management

This white paper provides an explanation of the real, virtual, and auxiliary storage architecture used by the z/OS operating system, the associated metrics by SMF, and their meaning.

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Health Insights, Ratings, and Thresholds with IntelliMagic Vision

This white paper provides an overview of what the colors indicate, how the rating mechanism works, and the key health insights for effectively monitoring disk storage systems.

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TS7700 Performance Analysis

Learn how to automatically compare the hardware views (via BVIR data) with the workload metrics to get insight into how the gridded hardware is handling the work and replication between boxes.

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Planning and Monitoring IBM Global Mirror Configurations

Learn how to use IntelliMagic Vision to either plan or monitor a z/OS Global Mirror configuration.

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