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The "Gas Gauge" was indeed more than a gimmick
Back in April this blog entry incorporated a picture of the z9 HMC display that includes the "gas gauge" (or "power meter" if you prefer). This press release details a rather more serious purpose for the thing. And thanks to John McKown for pointing out the press release in IBM-MAIN Listserver.
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Late To The Party
I'm towards the end of revamping our analysis code to support (z9) and z/OS R.8. What took us so long? :-) I'm telling you this for two reasons: So you know what there is that might slow you down. So you have some view as to whether we can competently process your data. :-) System z9 About the only change in instrumentation between z990 and z9 is the separation of specialty engines into pools. But... [More]
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An Excellent Paper on Uniprocessor Performance Management
My good friend Linda August (of the IBM Washington Systems Center and previously of the global Performance Management team I was a member of) has written a very good paper (and an accompanying presentation she gave at SHARE in February). The theme is highly topical: The management of uniprocessor LPARs. Topical because of the increased uniprocessor speed of the z990 and particularly the z9... [More]
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