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A Case Study: Measuring the Impact of Db2 for z/OS Buffer Pool Changes
Not long ago, a Db2 for z/OS administrator contacted me with a request. His team had made some changes to the buffer pool configuration in their production Db2 environment (the overall size of the buffer pool configuration was increased to reduce read I/O activity,...
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: A wake-up call Another interesting article from Planet Mainframe contributor Trevor Eddolls on...
Lost in translation? Why mainframers and non-mainframers need to communicate
In today’s connected world and with security high on the agenda, IT people across the enterprise have to understand each other. Mainframers need to be able to talk to non-mainframers with clarity, and vice-versa. Managers in the enterprise need to understand both...
Getting a Client in Trouble Out of Trouble
Recently, we helped one of our clients – a large investment bank of America – to “find” 30 million dollars per year – money that they weren’t able to obtain for technical reasons – when we helped them get it, it was like found money to them. Before our association,...
If It Ain’t Broke…
It was Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who made the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” popular by publicly urging the US government in mid-1977 to adopt it as a motto in order to save billions of dollars annually. He...
Securing data in transit
One way of looking at mainframe data is that it is either at rest or in transit. Data at rest is data that is not actively moving from device to device or network to network such as data stored on DASD or tape or some other way. Sometimes, data at rest is thought to...
Part II: Six ways to improve datacenter performance while saving on costs
Last week we looked at some of the most common reactions to the need for improved mainframe performance in the datacenter. Not all are great solutions, but this week we look at six truly great mainframe performance optimization solutions. Smart Technology Solutions...
Typical Techniques for Improving Datacenter Mainframe Performance
One common sense, and three less-than great Business has been booming, for the most part, for large enterprises in the US and across the globe for the last seven to eight years. The continuous growth in the Dow-Jones, the SSE Composite Index, DAX, Nikkei, FTSE, and...
The Mainframe versus the Server Farm – A Comparison
Google, Facebook, and Twitter own giant data centers all over the planet, and they are built with racks of commodity hardware. If thousands upon thousands of small servers networked together are good enough for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, then shouldn’t they be...
5 Ways to bridge the Millennial – Baby Boomer gap
For the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time. This is most profound in a technology like the Mainframe. Fortunately, today a lot of Organizations realize the importance of training the millennials with the aging mainframe...
