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Mainframe Alternatives: Examples 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The presenter of this webcast gives examples of the benefits that customers have accrued from application modernization, and from reducing their dependence on mainframes.

Mainframe Alternatives: Why: John Pickett (Part 1 of 5) 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

HP has helped mainframe users reduce costs and improve business agility. The presenter of this webcast identifies some key business problems that mainframe users face, and how HP can help solve them.

Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.

Mainframe Alternatives: Innovation: Paul Evans (Part 3 of 5) 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Learn how HP is helping companies bring their IT architectures and application environments to a new state to increase allocation for innovation as funding for maintenance decreases.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture

Azul Systems - Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Drives Down Cost, Risk, and Complexity with Azul Compute Appliances 2006-12-01 16:10:28 Azul Systems

With trading volumes doubling every year, this multinational bank needed to find a way to support growth projections with its existing infrastructure or risk severe business consequences. To solve this challenge, the company had to find a way to make its Java™ environments run faster, while at the same time making it easier for the company to manage. It considered the traditional horizontal/scale-out or vertical/scale-up scaling models, but these approaches would have been costly and added huge amounts of IT complexity. Find out how Azul Compute Appliances provided unprecedented performance and scalability for the bank's Java-based applications, while offering revolutionary power, density, and cooling economics.

An Australian Freight and Transport Conglomerate Uses an IBM Solution to Clone Their SAP Environment 2006-11-29 IBM

An Australian freight and transport conglomerate needed to quickly build a usable production support SAP R3 DB2 environment from a point-in-time copy of the production environment taken using HDS ShadowImage. The client already had a solution in place but this was taking more than 12 hours to build the region. Compounding this was the fact that the target catalog changes that were required, had to be built outside of the DB2 suspend window. IBM DB2 Cloning Tool for z/OS software provides access to cloned data using a very fast and sophisticated technique to rename the cloned data as well as alter and correct any inconsistencies in the target catalog, VTOC, VTOCIX, and VVDS.

Tags: ERP, Database Applications

Performance Benefits of DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 With Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications 2006-11-15 IBM

IBM DB2 Universal Database for z/OS Version 8 is the twelfth release of DB2 for Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS). It brings synergy with the System z hardware and exploits the z/OS 64-bit virtual addressing capabilities. DB2 Version 8 offers data support, application development, and query functionality enhancements for e-business, while building upon the traditional characteristics of availability, exceptional scalability, and performance for enterprise class computing. This paper looks at specific features within the DB2 Version 8 product and the results of tests with PeopleSoft Enterprise application data. This paper helps to understand the performance implications of migrating to DB2 Version 8 with considerations based on laboratory measurements.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications

DBM1 Virtual Storage Tuning When Migrating SAP DB2 z/OS System to DB2 V8 2006-11-14 IBM

DB2 DBM1 address space virtual storage constraint has been an issue with SAP systems for a while, and as more function has been added to SAP applications, demand on DBM1 virtual storage has increased. Prior to DB2 V8, a number of SAP customers took advantage of dataspace bufferpools in order to move the virtual bufferpools out of the DBM1 address space, providing some virtual storage constraint relief. Other tuning items included maximizing the Extended Private Area virtual storage in the LPAR, by lowering common area allocations; such as Extended CSA and Extended SQA. DB2 V8 introduced 64-bit addressing for the DBM1 address space and moved many of the fixed block areas above the 2GB bar.

Tags: Storage Management, Database Management

Linux on System z, an End-to-End View: From Sizing to Performance Analysis to Capacity Planning 2006-11-10 IBM

Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers on IBM System z and zSeries servers. Sizing the server to support those critical workloads is especially important. Equally important is the on-going capacity planning of z/VM and the Linux workloads. The purpose of this paper is to provide information on sizing tools and provide guidance on sizing and capacity planning for Linux workloads that run on System z. One of the responsibilities of IBM Techline is to perform Linux on System z workload sizing. When presentations about Linux on System z sizing were made, questions were raised about the accuracy of the projections.

Top 10 Uses of SYSchange for z/OS by Pristine Software 2006-11-08 01:00:18 BMC Software

Top data centers continue to require higher automation and greater transparency in the world of systems software change management. There is a high demand for a centralized approach to system-wide auditing and change "Reconciliation" as opposed to arcane manual methods. Hence, the industry seeks a scalable Next Generation software solution like SYSchange for z/OS from Pristine Software, which tackles these challenges and beyond. Since different organizations have differing requirements, SYSchange for z/OS elegantly integrates many solutions into one product, thereby ensuring that the systems software change management objectives are met. SYSchange for z/OS achieves systems software security and reliability through advanced change management standards using a centralized approach to change management.

IBM System z9 HCD Migration 2006-10-01 IBM

The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate the process for migrating an existing processor definition into an IBM System z9 definition within HCD. It is intended to be brief and concise in order to provide an easy to follow step by step approach when modifying HCD in anticipation of a processor upgrade to an IBM System z9.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Mainframe Alternatives: Examples	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
The presenter of this webcast gives examples of the benefits that customers have accrued from application modernization, and from reducing their dependence on mainframes.
Mainframe Alternatives: Why: John Pickett (Part 1 of 5)	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
HP has helped mainframe users reduce costs and improve business agility. The presenter of this webcast identifies some key business problems that mainframe users face, and how HP can help solve them. Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.
Mainframe Alternatives: Innovation: Paul Evans (Part 3 of 5)	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Learn how HP is helping companies bring their IT architectures and application environments to a new state to increase allocation for innovation as funding for maintenance decreases. Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture
Azul Systems - Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Drives Down Cost, Risk, and Complexity with Azul Compute Appliances	2006-12-01 16:10:28	Azul Systems
With trading volumes doubling every year, this multinational bank needed to find a way to support growth projections with its existing infrastructure or risk severe business consequences. To solve this challenge, the company had to find a way to make its Java™ environments run faster, while at the same time making it easier for the company to manage. It considered the traditional horizontal/scale-out or vertical/scale-up scaling models, but these approaches would have been costly and added huge amounts of IT complexity. Find out how Azul Compute Appliances provided unprecedented performance and scalability for the bank's Java-based applications, while offering revolutionary power, density, and cooling economics.
An Australian Freight and Transport Conglomerate Uses an IBM Solution to Clone Their SAP Environment	2006-11-29	IBM
An Australian freight and transport conglomerate needed to quickly build a usable production support SAP R3 DB2 environment from a point-in-time copy of the production environment taken using HDS ShadowImage. The client already had a solution in place but this was taking more than 12 hours to build the region. Compounding this was the fact that the target catalog changes that were required, had to be built outside of the DB2 suspend window. IBM DB2 Cloning Tool for z/OS software provides access to cloned data using a very fast and sophisticated technique to rename the cloned data as well as alter and correct any inconsistencies in the target catalog, VTOC, VTOCIX, and VVDS. Tags: ERP, Database Applications
Performance Benefits of DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 With Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications	2006-11-15	IBM
IBM DB2 Universal Database for z/OS Version 8 is the twelfth release of DB2 for Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS). It brings synergy with the System z hardware and exploits the z/OS 64-bit virtual addressing capabilities. DB2 Version 8 offers data support, application development, and query functionality enhancements for e-business, while building upon the traditional characteristics of availability, exceptional scalability, and performance for enterprise class computing. This paper looks at specific features within the DB2 Version 8 product and the results of tests with PeopleSoft Enterprise application data. This paper helps to understand the performance implications of migrating to DB2 Version 8 with considerations based on laboratory measurements. Tags: Database Management, Database Applications
DBM1 Virtual Storage Tuning When Migrating SAP DB2 z/OS System to DB2 V8	2006-11-14	IBM
DB2 DBM1 address space virtual storage constraint has been an issue with SAP systems for a while, and as more function has been added to SAP applications, demand on DBM1 virtual storage has increased. Prior to DB2 V8, a number of SAP customers took advantage of dataspace bufferpools in order to move the virtual bufferpools out of the DBM1 address space, providing some virtual storage constraint relief. Other tuning items included maximizing the Extended Private Area virtual storage in the LPAR, by lowering common area allocations; such as Extended CSA and Extended SQA. DB2 V8 introduced 64-bit addressing for the DBM1 address space and moved many of the fixed block areas above the 2GB bar. Tags: Storage Management, Database Management
Linux on System z, an End-to-End View: From Sizing to Performance Analysis to Capacity Planning	2006-11-10	IBM
Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers on IBM System z and zSeries servers. Sizing the server to support those critical workloads is especially important. Equally important is the on-going capacity planning of z/VM and the Linux workloads. The purpose of this paper is to provide information on sizing tools and provide guidance on sizing and capacity planning for Linux workloads that run on System z. One of the responsibilities of IBM Techline is to perform Linux on System z workload sizing. When presentations about Linux on System z sizing were made, questions were raised about the accuracy of the projections.
Top 10 Uses of SYSchange for z/OS by Pristine Software	2006-11-08 01:00:18	BMC Software
Top data centers continue to require higher automation and greater transparency in the world of systems software change management. There is a high demand for a centralized approach to system-wide auditing and change "Reconciliation" as opposed to arcane manual methods. Hence, the industry seeks a scalable Next Generation software solution like SYSchange for z/OS from Pristine Software, which tackles these challenges and beyond. Since different organizations have differing requirements, SYSchange for z/OS elegantly integrates many solutions into one product, thereby ensuring that the systems software change management objectives are met. SYSchange for z/OS achieves systems software security and reliability through advanced change management standards using a centralized approach to change management.
IBM System z9 HCD Migration	2006-10-01	IBM
The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate the process for migrating an existing processor definition into an IBM System z9 definition within HCD. It is intended to be brief and concise in order to provide an easy to follow step by step approach when modifying HCD in anticipation of a processor upgrade to an IBM System z9.