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Capping capacity vs. capping demand (webinar)

Datacenter management and their staff are grappling with the realities of constraint driven service and performance. This webinar discusses the challenges and solutions that z/OS customers are...

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Breaking it down: How ThruPut Manager lowers the R4HA

In our last post, we explained the inner workings of ThruPut Manager, offering insight into how this technology effectively balances batch workloads. This week, we explore how TM works with...

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So why isn’t everyone capping?

Soft capping—the act of artificially constraining a system so the MLC bill cannot exceed the MSU level of the cap—offers excellent financial benefits. So why isn’t everyone doing it? The answer lies,...

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What happens if your R4HA exceeds your soft cap?

As system utilization grows, applications feel the effects gradually, sometimes starting to slow down as early as 70% CPU utilization and increasing gradually until saturation and timeouts are reached....

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Automated capacity management: The best of all worlds?

While there are definitely some advantages to manual capacity management, as we discussed last week, the most effective method of meeting both the capacity and financial needs of an organization is...

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z/OS capping and automation: What’s in your tool box? (webinar)

We all have our go-to tools. In z/OS, products associated with capping and automation are becoming more and more common -- capping because it offers the most effective method to control software costs,...

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Forget what you know about capacity controls

Were you burned over the years by recommended capacity controls, such as hard capping or memory fencing? If you’re a long-time mainframe capacity planner, you quite possibly experienced the cost of...

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Reduce MLC without capping: Automating Resource Groups (webinar)

WLM Resource Groups have been around since the introduction of Goal Mode. Their use is often discouraged as their static nature can work against the dynamic nature of Goal Mode. What if Resource Groups...

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CMP is here! What you need to know to minimize your MLC costs (webinar)

IBM’s Country Multiplex Pricing (CMP) became available last October. This is arguably the most significant software pricing announcement from IBM in ten years. Virtually every mainframe shop with more...

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