Stream: Virtual Room 8
Time: 12:30 - 13:15
Much of the mainframe industry is “stuck” doing SMF performance reporting the way they have done it for 30+ years, limited to a small, centralized group of tenured staff who are the only ones capable of using their complex tooling to generate the reports needed to satisfy analysis requests that may come in from across the organization. Many have not considered what they are missing out on with such a limited use of their rich mainframe data and are not aware any other model might even be feasible. This session will challenge that thinking by presenting (1) potential benefits of building a broad-based data-driven analytical culture and (2) action steps toward reaching a target state where personnel across I/T have self-service access to SMF data to make better and more timely decisions.
Todd Havekost is an IntelliMagic Z Performance Consultant with IBM. He has over 40 years of IT experience with a primary focus on system and subsystem performance across the IBM Z platform. He joined IBM in 2024 in conjunction with IBM's acquisition of IntelliMagic. Having experienced first-hand as a customer the visibility IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision provides into Z platform infrastructure, he now helps companies around the world recognize how they too can derive great value from their own SMF data to improve availability and performance.
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