'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in z Systems Software R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software. Dear Rocky, I’m a Systems Programmer at a large financial institution – you may remember my question from several years ago regarding OMEGAMON for IMS.  Our system data is very important to us, but we want a way to view and analyze this off-platform, utilizing... [More]

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     'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in z System Software R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your z System monitoring software. By streamlining the product and simplifying the architecture, the latest version of OMEGAMON now serves its core customers better while reducing the total cost of ownership in terms of CPU and maintenance. OMEGAMON has been monitoring IBM z Systems for decades and with... [More]

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'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in IBM Z Systems R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software.   Dear Rocky, My team works for a large financial institution with over 100,000 employees and revenue of over 20 billion dollars in 2015.   We're so excited to start monitoring our enterprise applications with our recent purchase of the OMEGAMON(R) XE Management Suite for z/OS... [More]

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