The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 3
The first two parts of this article: The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 1 The Mainframe Lives and Thrives…
There could be major optimization opportunities under your nose
Have you tried any in-memory optimization techniques since transitioning to Tailored Fit Pricing? With the adoption of Tailored Fit Pricing comes new opportunity. Under the traditional Rolling 4 Hour Average (R4HA) model, the focus for optimization was solely on the peak 4 hours of the…
Latest updates for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics
In our previous update for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics in February, we detailed some important updates to aid capacity…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough…
Driving your AIOps journey by extending your APM solution to IBM Z
Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven Intelligence and automation to make quick and accurate decisions…
Db2 for z/OS: Clearing Up Some Matters Pertaining to PGSTEAL(NONE) Buffer Pools
I have written a few entries for this blog in which I provided information about Db2 for z/OS buffer pools defined…
Z ChatOps now available for Microsoft® Teams™
IBM Z ChatOps, which provides an intelligent chatbot that can surface information from your IBM Z environment in an enterprise…
Where do Db2 Containers Come From and How are they Used
In my last post, I wrote an overview of running Db2 in containers. Today, I’d like to talk a bit about…
The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 2
The first part of the article. Let’s Boot the Mainframe Out! Baby and Bathwater The paper below talks of the…
CPU Based Pricing Models
How well is your mainframe outsourcer managing capacity and performance? Part 5: CPU based pricing models This is the fifth…
A DevOps Approach to Building Batch Workflow Automation
Treating Artifacts as Code in DevOps “...there are still manual processes that take time and are error prone.” The DevOps…