New to z/OS Performance? 10 Ways to Help Maintain Performance and Cost [#57]

The z/OS world is trying to address the mainframe skills gap and backfill talent, but hiring is only the first step. How do we distill decades’ worth of experience into the next generation of performance analysts before it’s too late?

In this practical webinar, our z/OS performance experts John Baker and Jerry Street will unveil 10 essential strategies for helping analysts (new and old) uphold peak performance while managing costs effectively in your z/OS environment.

We’ll cover:
• Key Performance Metrics: Metrics that are key to business and availability goals
• Best-Practice Performance Strategies: Learn how to interpret, dissect, and correlate key performance metrics effectively to identify bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts.
• Best-Practice Cost-Reduction Strategies: Understand the key areas in your infrastructure driving costs and practical strategies for reducing costs or keeping them even while growing

Whether you’re a seasoned mainframe professional seeking to refine or test your skills or a newcomer navigating the complexities of z/OS performance management, this webinar offers valuable insights and actionable strategies to help you optimize performance, control costs, and drive operational excellence in your organization’s mainframe environment.

        
    

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April 25

2pm ET | 1pm CT

 

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Insights into Subsystem and Hardware Configurations through Topology Views [#58]

The proliferation of software and hardware components across today’s mainframe environments creates a web of connections that are increasingly complex to understand and to manage. This complexity extends across domains, including processor and system configurations, subsystem (CICS, Db2, MQ) configurations, FICON and storage frame/volume hardware configurations, and internal PR/SM LPAR CP placement configurations.

Many sites are becoming increasingly reliant on views that enable them to visualize their topologies and dynamically explore the detailed components and their connections, including CICS transaction IDs and Db2 DDF authorization IDs. Easy visibility into these relationships can be helpful across all teams that manage across the z/OS environment, particularly for staff in secondary support roles who only occasionally reference information outside their primary area of responsibility and who have previously relied on printed reference documents that can become out of date.

In this session, Todd and John will present several examples of these types of topology views and how they can be navigated dynamically to answer business questions including the extent to which the current configuration supports the desired level of application resiliency.

Topologies to be explored include:

Sysplex / System / Subsystem Topology
LPAR Topology
FICON Topology

        
    

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May 23

11am ET | 10am CT

 

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