MQ: How to Extract Insights and Optimize Performance Using SMF Data | IntelliMagic zAcademy
This webinar will introduce you to best practices for enhancing your analysis of MQ Statistics (SMF 115) and Accounting (116) data.
Finding Hidden Time Bombs in Your VMware Connectivity
Seeing real end-to-end risks from the VMware guest through the SAN fabric to the Storage LUN is difficult, leading to many SAN Connectivity issues.
Interactive FICON Topology Viewer Spotlights Configuration Errors
June 26, 2023 | IntelliMagic Vision's FICON Topology Viewer helps analysts identify configuration errors, ensure that the infrastructure is configured correctly, and reveal undesirable infrastructure changes.
Where Are All The Performance Analysts? - A Mainframe Roundtable | IntelliMagic zAcademy
We have brought together industry experts from across the board to discuss the importance of having an efficient team managing the performance of their business applications.
Mainframe Cost Savings Part 3: Address Space Opportunities
This final blog in the mainframe cost reduction series will cover potential CPU reduction opportunities that produce benefits applicable to a specific address space or application.
How A Db2 Newbie Quickly Spotlights the Root Cause of a Db2 Slowdown
This blog explores how a non-Db2 expert quickly identified latch contention arising from a Data Sharing Index Split as the root cause of a Db2 delay/slowdown.
Benefits of Analysis Across SMF Data Types
No matter which z/OS subsystem you are primarily responsible for, this article will help you blur the boundaries between the SMF ‘silos’ for each product.
A Performance Analyst’s Guide to Mainframe zERT Analysis | IntelliMagic zAcademy
This webinar recording will show real use-cases to introduce you to some of the ways to identify security risks and issues within network traffic.
Compressing Wisely with IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Data compression in an IBM SVC Spectrum Virtualize environment may help regain capacity, but hidden performance problems can occur if compressible workloads are not first identified.
Platform-Specific Views: Vendor Neutral SAN Monitoring Part 2
Each distributed system platform has unique nuances. It's important for a solution to be capable of getting the detailed performance data capable of supporting vendor-specific architectures.
Mainframe Cost Savings Part 2: 4HRA, zIIP Overflow, XCF, and Db2 Memory
This blog covers several CPU reduction areas, including, moving work outside the monthly peak R4HA interval, reducing zIIP overflow, reducing XCF volumes, and leveraging Db2 memory to reduce I/Os.
Using zHyperWrite to Improve MQ Logging Performance
In this blog we examine before-and-after measurements of a recent zHyperWrite implementation for MQ logging in a large z/OS environment.