It has been some time since our last newsletter, but the quarterly Mainframe Newsletter is back!

The newsletter is aimed at mainframe professionals keeping you updated on the informative articles, product releases, learning opportunities, and insight about Software Europe’s mainframe solutions to help you better manage your mainframe computing environment.

Announcement: This year Software Europe celebrated its 20th Anniversary providing solutions to enhance the performance of mainframe operating systems, independently selected from the world’s leading developers for their high quality and commercial benefit.

The articles in this issue are:

• System z Storage Management: How can you get better performance from your existing hardware
• zJournal article: "New Best Practices for z/OS Storage Performance Management"
• Catalog Management: Restore and recover in time
• Batch Performance & Tuning: With very little effort, reduce CPU resources

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System z Storage Management: How can you get better performance from your existing hardware

Today’s economic environment is causing every area of IT to be scrutinised for more efficiency. Mainframe storage often represents an overlooked area of opportunity. How can you get better performance from your existing hardware AND spend less time understanding and managing performance? How can you avoid overspending on hardware configuration options that do not contribute to the performance requirements of your workloads?

IntelliMagic’s products are being used by vendors and by data centres to analyse and predict storage system performance and with deep expertise in the world of performance analysis and capacity modelling provide clear insight in storage system performance helping you monitor, manage and migrate disk and tape configurations "Software products developed by IntelliMagic are used every day by IBM's world-wide sales force." IBM Systems Group, Tucson, AZ

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zJournal article "New Best Practices for z/OS Storage Performance Management"

The October/November issue of zJournal contains an article by Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer and Brent Phillips from IntelliMagic entitled "New Best Practices for z/OS Storage Performance Management". This article describes new metrics and methodologies that are used to achieve the benefits of Storage Performance Management. Read the complete zJournal article here or email to discuss your storage performance issues with one of our team.

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Catalog Management

ICF catalogs are a critical link between your applications and the operating system. Catalog maintenance and diagnosing potential problems with ICF-catalogs is an important issue at every mainframe site as a damaged and unavailable catalog can very quickly interrupt your production or bring it to a complete halt. Valuable online time is lost, SLA’s cannot be met and large amount of manual effort is necessary in order to recover.

Restore and recover in time… My last day before I was taking time off to get married and go on a week-long honeymoon, I inadvertently deleted a catalog index for our TSO catalog, no less! With the help of CIM, I was able to restore the most recent backup of the catalog and then forward recover, using SMF records. The whole process took less than 30 minutes, and I was still able to get to the church on time.” - Global Tyre Manufacturing Company

Companies worldwide are choosing CIM as their solution to catalog management. On average, we have been able to save companies up to 70% annually over alternative catalog management solutions. CIM’s contemporary design gives you the assurances you need to support today’s ever-changing environments in a fast, secure and efficient manner.

Click here for more information on CIM, or email to request a competitive pricing proposal to replace an existing costly solution.

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Batch Performance & Tuning

If your IT Departments production challenges are associated with batch windows, online uptime, legacy batch system performance, or the development and deployment cycles of new business applications then you will be interested to learn more about SmartProduction, an innovative software product that dramatically reduce system resources utilization (e.g., CPU and I/O) and significantly cut job elapsed run times. With very little effort, SmartProduction will reduce the CPU resources required to run your batch workload by at least 15%.

Shrink the Batch Window "SmartProduction has been an invaluable cost- and time-saving tool for us," says the principal analyst for the company. "It not only provided us with a cost-effective means to identify and correct specific problems in our environment, its detailed recommendations and uncomplicated implementations allowed us to make the required changes very efficiently." A Global Utility Company

Click here for more information on SmartProduction or email to discuss how SmartProduction can reduce your batch workload.