IntelliMagic is a global provider of performance and availability management software and services for enterprise storage environments. IntelliMagic’s software suite for mainframe and SAN environments creates visibility and early warning into hidden risks in critical IT infrastructure  resources – enabling proactive performance management. 
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This webinar will present the benefits of modernizing how you understand and leverage SMF data for CICS and Db2 Performance analysis. Instead of being overwhelmed by massive volumes of CICS and Db2 SMF data and combing through countless static reports, discover how interactive analysis using an intuitive GUI interface with context-sensitive drilldowns can elevate your effectiveness to an entirely new level. And learn how rated health assessments of more than 100 metrics visualized in easy-to-use dashboards can help you identify potential performance and availability issues before they impact production.

We will also show:

How other z/OS metrics (data sets, service classes, coupling facility) can supplement detailed CICS & Db2 specific data
How to identify current and pending CICS & Db2 health issues
How to analyze Db2 and CICS Transaction response time profiles

AIOps for Smarter CICS & Db2 SMF Performance Analysis

In the beginning, you paid based on the size of the machine. Then came sub-capacity pricing, where you paid for what you used. Seemed reasonable except it was (is) based on extremely complex metrics and methods using a ‘rolling four-hour average’ of consumption.

That has basically been the way of things since 2002.

On May 14th, IBM announced ‘Tailored Fit Pricing’. This new model throws the R4HA/4HRA out the window. No longer do you need to worry about peak hours or even days. Your total MSU (CPU) consumption for the year, will determine your bill.

Seems simple enough right? Let’s take a closer look.

An Insider's Guide to Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z

Infrastructure and Storage teams assess a vast amount of information across Storage, Fabric, and VMware, and it is challenging trying to be proactive when faced with formidable issues such as multiple storage vendors, manual analysis, and a lack of resources.

In this webinar, Brett Allison, Director of Technical Services at IntelliMagic, will share some best practices for managing your storage infrastructure performance with a focus on:

Visibility into storage health-risks-trends
SAN expertise gap
Storage Monitoring Inadequacies

Modern Best Practices in Storage Infrastructure Performance and Capacity Managem

The Db2 SMF data is a rich and voluminous source of metrics about the operation of Db2. But the size and complexity mean it is also difficult to know when the metrics start to get into conditions that represent problems, risk and best-practice violations.

Fortunately, new algorithms are now available to continuously assess and rate the most important issues against Db2 expert knowledge to augment the human teams. This enables predictive and prescriptive analysis of the data, as well as intelligent navigation through the data with flexible views to significantly decrease the amount of time needed to zero in on the desired subset of the data to be analyzed.

This webinar will cover the design for this new type of approach to data analysis as well as a demonstration of:

Automated Db2 health assessment and identification of the most important issues
Intuitive navigation through the Db2 metrics for understanding issues
Flexible ways to analyze and view current and historical data for trends and anomalies

Modernize Db2 SMF Analysis with Smarter Algorithms

How often have you been stuck in traffic? In many cases, we slowly advance through the gridlock and eventually spot the offending accident or construction work, then off we go. What about when we see no problem? We slow down or stop (sometimes repeatedly), for no apparent reason, then resume just as mysteriously. Not understanding why, is often just as frustrating as the delay itself.
The z14 has vast throughput potential. With almost 200 Processing Units (PU's) and 32 TB of cache memory, this is a box designed for massive, parallel processing. So why do the same jobs sometimes take longer? Why do I need to turn on additional engines when transaction rates seems similar? Just as higher speed limits or more lanes don't always solve traffic problems, more MIPS or more memory is not always the answer.
In this session, John will share his insights from over 25 years of performance analysis. we will explore common sources of application delays and discuss practical solutions to reduce these delays. Stop the rage. Don't get mad; get moving.

Road Rage Against the Machine: Understanding & Dealing with z14 Traffic Patterns

Advanced statistical algorithms applied to the most meaningful metrics will automatically identify significant changes to the z/OS workloads and applications, and enable capacity planners to accurately forecast workload growth.
This statistical approach, combined with the predictive capabilities of Availability Intelligence, is the most advanced way to understand the performance and availability of the z/OS platform.

RMF/SMF Analysis - Get Ahead of the Curve with Statistical Analysis

This webinar will discuss the best practices for managing your replicated tape environment, with particular focus on IBM TS7700 and Oracle VSM environments, so you can properly monitor the performance of your z/OS Tape infrastructure and prevent performance problems before they occur.

Best Practices for Managing z/OS Virtual Tape Performance

This webinar will discuss the potential benefits and implications of this revolutionary change to mainframe I/O and help sites determine how zHyperLink fits into the roadmap for their environments.

zHyperLink - The Holy Grail of Mainframe IO

This webinar, which had the highest number of registrations in IBM System Magazine history, discusses and demonstrates the benefits of modernizing how you understand and leverage the SMF data for CICS and Db2 Performance analysis.
It highlights how the IntelliMagic approach with automatic health checks and dashboard technology identifies potential performance and availability issues before they impact production.

CICS & Db2 Performance Analytics Based on SMF Data

This session will examine the historical reasons why the performance and financial cost impact on the z/OS infrastructure has been difficult to test in DevOps organizations. We will also discuss an architecture and modernized methodology to utilize built-in (artificial) intelligence on the vast infrastructure performance and configuration data (RMF/SMF).
This modernized approach can significantly improve release quality as it relates to the z/OS infrastructure’s ability to efficiently deliver the service levels required by specific applications.

Easy z/OS Application Performance Testing from the Infrastructure Perspective

Outsourcing of z/OS mainframes is not uncommon. Yet there are common application infrastructure performance and capacity related issues for the business that arise in outsourcing situations.

IntelliMagic partners, Cheryl Watson of Watson & Walker and Charles Hinkle of Edge Solutions and Consulting join us in this CMG-hosted webinar to explore these issues and more.

Performance and Capacity Insights for your Outsourced z/OS Mainframe

Enterprise class data storage technology continues to advance with amazing capabilities, so why do storage problems still disrupt production apps?

Led by IntelliMagic's Director of Technical Services, Brett Allison, join us to learn how these issues can be solved.

Strategies for SAN Data Storage Infrastructure Predictability in 2018

2018 is a watershed year for how RMF (or CMF) and SMF data is used by Performance and Capacity teams. This webinar covers the smarter analytics trends taking root in the mainstream.

2018 RMF/SMF Analytics - Status and Predictions

24x7 performance from the z/OS infrastructure is more important than ever, but also more difficult than ever using reporting tools designed decades ago. Evolve to intelligent analytics to reduce performance risk, optimize infrastructure costs, and bridge the skills gap.

Predictive Analysis from RMF/SMF for Enhanced Performance & Capacity Planning

his session will examine the historical reasons why the performance and financial cost impact on the z/OS infrastructure has been difficult to test in DevOps organizations. We will also discuss an architecture and modernized methodology to utilize built-in (artificial) intelligence on the vast infrastructure performance and configuration data (RMF/SMF).
This modernized approach can significantly improve release quality as it relates to the z/OS infrastructure’s ability to efficiently deliver the service levels required by specific applications.

Agile z/OS Application Infrastructure Performance Testing for DevOps

The mainframe skills gap makes a difficult job harder, especially in the area of z/OS performance and capacity planning which requires deep expertise across all the areas of the infrastructure.
Modernizing how you analyze and interpret your RMF/CMF & SMF data using AI techniques makes the best use of your current deep experts, and helps newer staff get up to speed sooner.

Bridging the z/OS Performance and Capacity Planning Skills Gap

New insights are obtained by automatically interpreting the RMF and SMF data using embedded expert knowledge about the I/O workloads within the context of the specific storage infrastructure in use. 
This session will demonstrate the method and benefits of modernizing the status quo way of understanding the data, which is still typically an internal PDB and custom-coded reports that require manual interpretation of unrated, static reports to discover what is important in the data.

Modernize RMF/SMF Analysis for Superior z/OS Storage Infrastructure Management

Most environments have hidden availability risks because getting insights in the end-to-end risks, from the VMware guest through the SAN fabric to the Storage LUN, is difficult to accomplish in practice. It requires many relationships from a variety of sources. This webinar will cover: • What is the topology viewer? • Requirements for the topology viewer? • What kinds of end-to-end infrastructure storage problems are discoverable with the topology viewer? • How can you diagnose issues with it? • How can I get ahold of it?

End-to-End Storage Infrastructure Analytics with Topology Viewer

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