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Written by Todd Havekost on May 31, 2021. IBM's introduction of the Enterprise Consumption (EC) solution within Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) brings with it a fundamental change in how sites ...
Written by Todd Havekost and Frank Kyne on September 2, 2021. IBM introduced Asynchronous duplexing for the Db2 Coupling Facility (CF) lock structure back in 2016. It took some time ...
Written by Todd Havekost on October 24, 2022. As parallel sysplexes have evolved, the amount of communication and sharing across the systems has increased dramatically. This communication ...
Written by Todd Havekost on November 16, 2022. As indicated in the last article in this series, XCF (Cross-System Coupling Facility) is a reliable but often taken-for-granted workhorse ...
Written by Todd Havekost on February 16, 2021. On z processors since the z13, machine cycles spent waiting for data and instructions to be staged into Level 1 processor cache represent ...
Written by Todd Havekost on February 19, 2020. IBM continues to make significant hardware and software investments across the Z platform to enhance data security, highlighted with the ...
Written by Todd Havekost on May 21, 2020. The mainframe platform produces an incredibly rich set of metrics that exceeds any other. This measurement data can provide a tremendous learning ...
Written by Todd Havekost on August 26, 2020. This article is one in a series, designed to introduce you to insights that are available through SMF data into various areas across the z/OS ...