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How Attendance at a DTS Software Educational Webinar Led to an Exit Source Review and Software Purchase, Delivering Quick and Substantial ROI for a Fortune 1000 Communications Client
Like so many things in life, there are three givens working in expansive IT environments. Problems will arise. Solutions will be implemented…
A Quick Look Back as We Move Forward With Optimism and Announce the Coming of New Features for ACC Monarch in 2022
Aside from the obvious “big picture” issues, 2021 served up two headline-worthy topics of potential concern to DTS clients. In July, IBM® announced the release of z/OS® 2.5, describing it as…
How the Processing Power of the IBM® z16TM Magnifies the Need for Better Storage Management
The mainframe is dead. The mainframe is alive and well. The mainframe is dying. The mainframe market is growing at a rate of nearly 4.5% a year and should continue at that pace for the next several years at least. The simple truth is the…
DTS Webinar Recap: Understanding IDCAMS – Finding Information and Managing Data
Judging by the consistently high attendance of the DTS Software monthly educational webinar series, CTO Steve Pryor continues to present topics of great interest and import to today’s mainframer community.
DTS Webinar Recap: An Introduction to IBM® z/OS® Sort
In what can only be considered a masterclass series in z/OS storage management best practices, DTS Software’s monthly educational webinar series continues to present topics aimed at giving both seasoned and newer z/OS users and programmers new tools to help you get...
SHARE Dallas 2022: A Return to In-Person Events. Good for the Mind – Great for the Soul!
To say the last two years have been hard on most everyone may be the understatement of the year, so it is with much anticipation that DTS returns to live conferences at SHARE this week in Dallas (March 27-30). By name and nature, SHARE is an opportunity for industry…
DTS Webinar Recap: An Introduction to IBM® z/OS® Utilities
Whether you’re new to the mainframe space or a seasoned veteran, spending an hour with someone who is a walking knowledge base is never a bad idea. That’s exactly what happens each month in DTS Software’s educational webinar series. DTS CTO and z/OS storage management...
DTS Webinar Recap: We’ve Got a Problem — An Introduction to z/OS® Dumps and Debugging Tools
In large enterprises, the most complex and mission-critical business applications are entrusted to z/OS because of its unrivaled security and reliability. In any complex environment, however, unexpected errors and unplanned failures are bound to occur. When they do…
DTS Webinar Recap: Understanding IBM® z/OS® Disk Metadata: Catalogs, VTOCs, VVDSs, Indexes, and More!
The way that DASD (direct access storage device) data is stored on z/OS® is very different from distributed/open systems. An understanding of just how z/OS datasets are created, located, accessed, and deleted is as important…