EPV Technologies: December 2024 Newsletter

The December 2024 edition of the EPV Technologies newsletter brings festive greetings and valuable insights into SMF data compression and performance optimization.

Key Highlights:

• Happy Holidays:

  • The EPV team extends warm holiday wishes to all newsletter subscribers.

• Compressing SMF Data – Part 2:

  • EPV introduces EPVlzf, a new tool designed to enhance SMF data compression.
  • EPVlzf inherits the operational characteristics of EPVzip but leverages the lzf compression library for improved speed, compression ratio, and reduced CPU and zIIP consumption.
  • Both EPVzip and EPVlzf now support direct data transfer via SFTP and SSH keys.
  • The newsletter includes results from internal and customer comparison tests, as well as guidance on setting up direct data transfers.

• Customer Query:

  • A detailed explanation on enabling queue statistics in SMF 115 subtype 216 records for MQ V9.3.3 users.

• Performance Insight:

  • A focus on the QR TCB Dispatch/Interval Ratio as a key indicator of CICS region performance.
  • IBM recommends maintaining this ratio below 50% to prevent bottlenecks and ensure optimal application performance.

EPV Technologies continues to innovate, providing tools and insights to optimize mainframe performance and efficiency.

Download the newsletter here or visit the EPV website for more details.