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Tune your processor configuration to increase the MIPS you get out of your mainframe hardware.
IntelliMagic Vision provides visibility into the widely-used transaction level metrics available in the RMF 72 records, including transaction rate, transaction response time, average concurrent transactions, CPU and I/O per transaction, and total CPU and I/O activity.
Obtaining key metrics for CICS, DB2, and IMS transactions has historically required processing massive volumes (often hundreds of millions or more) of SMF 110 records (for CICS), SMF 101 records (for DB2), and subsystem log records (for IMS). Extracting, transmitting, and processing these enormous volumes of records has typically been a very CPU-intensive task requiring many hours of elapsed time.
But now (as an unexpected “side benefit” of IBM’s Mobile workload pricing support) key transaction level metrics are available in the RMF type 72 records, at the service class or report class level. You can take advantage of this capability by mapping transactions of interest into a set of report classes using the wide range of classification methods available in WLM.
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.
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.
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.
Experience firsthand the deepest visibility into your z/OS systems, processors, network, disk and tape environments. Whether you’re in the early stages of product research, evaluating competitive solutions, or trying to solve a problem, we’re happy to help you get the information you need to move forward with your IT initiatives.
Tune your processor configuration to increase the MIPS you get out of your mainframe hardware.
Configure Coupling Facilities for optimal availability and proactively identify hidden health and performance risks
See Buffer Pool imbalances and proactively identify upcoming risks to your Db2 health and performance
Save time looking for problems and profile CICS transaction data and see transaction response time
Ensure sufficient capacity and consistent performance for IBM zEDC availability.
Monitor the health of your TCP/IP and analyze traffic from different perspectives.
Automated health check for workload manager (WLM) goals, improving performance and protect availability.
Compute and chart FICON Effective Channel Data Rate and rates if the value is good or not