I received a number of questions related to our IBM UrbanCode Deploy 7.0.4 announcement and IBM Db2® for IBM Z. Here is something a FAQ: What does the announcement say? “The UrbanCode Deploy backend database for Db2® for IBM Z is no longer supported. Existing clients using Db2 for IBM...
Executive Summary The I/O Operations (I/O Ops) component of System Automation for z/OS (SAFOS) has been used by z/OS clients to manage the FICON I/O switch configuration, make configuration changes and display status information. In July of 2014 the IBM System Automation for z/OS product team...
Executive Summary IBM recommends that clients exploit the “ Improved Channel Path Recovery ” (ICR) function , first delivered in z/OS 1.13 (2011), to quickly fence failing I/O resources and minimize any impact on the production work load. The ICR function allows clients to set a z/OS policy...
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The IBM Journal of Research and Development just published an issue dedicated to the IBM z14, IBM's latest generation of mainframe. The IBM DS8880 Storage allows clients to get the most value out of the z14 with the new zHyperLink technology for extreme low latency I/O. For readers with...
On December 8, 2017, IBM made the DS8886 zHyperLink support generally available. Today’s blog entry introduces a video demo of the zHyperLink technology. Story Board TL;DR , Clients can transparently cut their application response times in half. Pass this video along to your clients so...
Tariq Hanif Harry Yudenfriend Logging speed is a bottleneck for IMS performance, and the WADS I/O has been a bottleneck on logging speed. The enhancements in IMS Release 15 to exploit System z High Performance FICON (zHPF™) and zHyperWrite™ reduce the latency for writing to the WADS data set,...
Here is a new article describing the benefits of the DS8000 zHyperLink technology for IBM Z and the z14. DS8000 zHyperLinks for IBM Z and the z14 #Cloudstorage #Data-centricdesign #DS8000 #EnterpriseStorage #Flashstorage #ibmaot #IBMaotMainframeDS8000IBMz #IBMz ...