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Performance and Management Tools for AIX and Power Systems: Features and Use Cases

Jose Luis Ortega

December 7, 2021

While monitoring and management solutions perform somewhat similar tasks, they’ve traditionally served different enough functions to keep them from being optimally paired as a collaborative unit. Management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly or optimized and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, […]

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Function Usage Replaces Application Administration in New Navigator for i

Dawn May

November 29, 2021

In the Heritage Version of Navigator for i, Application Administration was used to allow or deny user access to functions—among them, the ability to customize what tasks were available to users in the Navigator console. Application Administration in Navigator for i had been ported from the original Client Access support and featured a very dated and cumbersome […]

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‘Being in a Minority of One Did Not Make You Mad:’ The Only Mainframer in the Room

Trevor Eddolls

November 29, 2021

How often have you been in a meeting where you explain the power and capabilities of the mainframe to a room full of intelligent people, who just don’t get what you are saying? And in your mind, you recall a similar meeting, perhaps three years previously, where a different group of people ignored your recommendation […]

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Interesting Points About the Power HMC

Jaqui Lynch

November 10, 2021

Jaqui Lynch on a real-life experience upgrading a 7063-cr1 HMC from 931 to 951, and new HMC upgrades

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Why Everyone Should Capture Performance Baselines

Dawn May

November 2, 2021

With most numerical data, a number requires a reference point for meaning, and performance data is filled with numbers. Baseline data provides reference points for numerical data and are essential for good performance management. A baseline is simply a collection of system performance metrics saved from a known point in time. Baselines are useful to […]

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Christian Jacobi, Chief Architect for IBM Z Processors, on the New IBM Telum Chip

Brianna Boecker

November 2, 2021

IBM’s new Telum chip fulfills clients’ business imperatives with a new cache infrastructure, optimized core and the ability to embed AI directly into enterprise workloads. First announced at the annual Hot Chips conference, this innovative processor chip enables IBM clients to leverage AI technologies and grow their workloads. Christian Jacobi, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect […]

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5 Quick Ways to Speed up Your z/OS Batch Without Application Changes

David Stephens

October 28, 2021

z/OS users understand that batch is still important. However, with pressure to reduce downtime and offer 24-7 online services, it seems we always need to reduce our batch window. Or in other words, make our batch jobs run faster. The good news is that z/OS has a lot of features that may speed up batch, […]

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How to Become a Happier Mainframe Professional

Trevor Eddolls

October 27, 2021

Some people might think that working on a mainframe every day is enough to make anyone happy, but as a mainframe professional, what could you do to make yourself happier? The usual response when people are asked what would make them happier is to suggest that they would like a higher salary and more time […]

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Monitoring Tools for Power Systems and AIX

Jose Luis Ortega

October 20, 2021

Monitoring tools improve service availability and productivity by proactively identifying, diagnosing and repairing slow or otherwise unstable connections. On the other hand, management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, and application performance impacts. For above-mentioned […]

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TechChannel E-book: How to Enhance Your Data Storage Strategy

TechChannel

September 22, 2021

Running an efficient data center requires constant monitoring and measurement. This means understanding everything from storage best practices and tools for maximizing performance. Data temperature, for example, often determines the percentage of budget that gets devoted to storing different types of data. Once you create process maps based on the data’s temperature, you can better […]

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