IBM Z IntelliMagic

The design of many modern, business-critical Z applications involves components from multiple disciplines, including CICS, Db2, MQ, and IMS. This places a premium on having visibility into the rich SMF metrics produced by all these disciplines. Please join CICS expert Ezriel Gross and Todd Havekost as they explore how you can leverage the analysis of CICS data to improve performance and availability. Topics include: 🔶Methods for managing the approximately 100 transaction timing buckets to enable efficient response time analysis 🔶Insights into the detailed information within CICS regions provided by the Statistics data including by storage area, TCB pool and mode, and transaction class 🔶Leveraging automated assessments of key metrics to proactively direct your attention to potential risks to CICS region availability and performance Sign up ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eB6VPSTH #mainframe #ibmz #AIOps #cics

Optimizing mainframe transaction workloads for peak application performance is a key responsibility for today’s #mainframe performance analysts. Register 👉 https://lnkd.in/giVuKuZb and join Todd Havekost and Brent Phillips as they share actionable strategies for building robust processes that improve transaction performance management in your environment. Topics will cover: ▶️ Identifying key workload drivers to prioritize your analysis ▶️ Defining "normal" behavior: establishing baseline response times and activity levels ▶️ Systematic approaches to detecting anomalies for quicker root cause identification ▶️ Advancing performance management maturity with a focus on efficiency, proactive problem-solving, and workload balancing Don’t miss out! #ibmz #AIOps

APIs make it easy for developers to access #mainframe data and transactions through familiar interfaces, without the need to dive into z/OS details. This approach allows businesses to reuse mainframe functionality without altering applications or duplicating data. While many companies have integrated APIs and z/OS Connect as essential elements of their mainframe modernization efforts, many still lack full visibility into these calls. Gaining insight into these requests is crucial for delivering high-quality service and understanding which off-platform applications are driving demand for mainframe resources. https://lnkd.in/g6CyH4Fi #AIOps #ibmz #mainframemodernization

SMF data is rich with resource metrics, and workload manager has several classifications of aggregation (service class, workload, report class). Unfortunately, none of this makes sense to application owners and business owners. A good solution to this problem involves classifying this valuable z/OS SMF data into business and application subsets. Solutions that provide a seamless approach to that classification should be part of your toolkit for communicating with the business owners that rely on z/OS infrastructure. Sign up for our monthly newsletter👉https://lnkd.in/gYcM36-C #mainframe #ibmz #AIOps

Ensuring mainframe transaction workloads are optimized for optimal application service levels is a critically important function of today’s #mainframe performance analysts. 📅 Join Todd Havekost and Brent Phillips as they share practical strategies to establish healthy processes to enhance transaction performance management in your environment. Topics will include: ▶️ Identifying primary workload drivers to prioritize your analysis ▶️ Identifying “normal” behavior: baseline response time profiles and activity levels ▶️ Systematic approaches to isolating anomalous behavior to expedite root cause analysis ▶️ Next steps of performance management maturity including efficiency considerations, getting out in front of potential problems, and workload balance and distribution Register 👉 https://lnkd.in/giVuKuZb

Having insight into complex data is crucial to fully understanding what's happening in your installation. The processor topology view is a great example of simplifying complicated z/OS SMF data, making it easy to grasp. Read the full article https://lnkd.in/gm5Qejuy #mainframe #ibmz #AIOps

There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's webinar at 11AM ET! https://lnkd.in/gUUdSj5J https://lnkd.in/g3wZ_9V8 John Baker Nick Clayton #mainframe #zAIOps

By leveraging enhanced technologies like the PCIe bus and synchronous I/O, zHyperLink effectively reduces 📉 latency for applications to a significant degree. This improvement is evident💡in the RMF/SMF data and plays a crucial role in justifying new technologies and projects 👉 https://lnkd.in/gs-iY76H

The next-generation of IBM Storage DS8000 is the latest innovation in enterprise-class storage for IBM Z mainframe architectures. 📅 Join John Baker and Nick Clayton to learn more about: ▶ The latest enhancements in the new IBM DS8000 (enhancements made to reliability, performance, sustainability, capacity, security, and availability) ▶ How to unlock key performance, cost, and availability metrics from your - Storage hardware through SMF data ▶ An overview of key focus areas for DS8K Register 👉 https://lnkd.in/gUUdSj5J

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