As a data center manager, you know that reliability is everything. After all, it’s your reputation on the line when something goes wrong. In a 2019 survey by the Uptime Institute, 60% of respondents reported that their most recent…

In Mysteries of the Management Class, DTS Software CTO Steve Pryor offered viewers an in-depth look at the Management Class construct. Management Class determines the lifecycle of a dataset, but its construct has some mysteriousness about it that warrants a deeper dive.

In Mysteries of the Storage Class, DTS Software CTO Steve Pryor offered viewers a more thorough understanding of the Storage Class construct, which lies at the heart of System-Managed Storage and specifies whether a dataset is SMS-managed. The two dozen or so attributes that can be specified in the…

In Introduction to ISMF Test, DTS Software CTO Steve Pryor discussed IBM’s Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF), including the Naviquest feature (ISMF Option 11) and its advantages and disadvantages. The presentation began with an introduction to the ISMF Test component, which allows you to simulate…

Why? We want to provide some IBM storage management intel as well as get your input on your customer experience. The release of IBM® z/OS® V2R4 brought enhancements to SMS and DFSMS that will affect both storage administrators and end users. January’s Customer Forum…

As our favorite conferences shuttered their doors throughout 2020, DTS Software opted to offer similar learning opportunities virtually in the form of monthly webinars. We released nine webinars throughout 2020, and if you were unable to attend them live, we have…

As inquiries brought on by COVID-19 strained state unemployment systems past their breaking points, the Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) they were built with got an unfair share of the blame. It’s true that COBOL is legacy…

Organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, healthcare providers, and governments all have vastly different needs, but they often rely on the same operating system for their highly secure, mega-powered processing needs—IBM® z/OS®. Despite its age, z/OS remains…

Smart speakers like Alexa (70% market share) are nosing their way into a myriad of workspaces, raising a lot of curious eyebrows and generating a lot of excitement about the possibilities for increases in team productivity and cost-savings. Marketplace Feedback from...