Take advantage of deeper visibility into your enterprise
IBM continually updates its products with enhanced capabilities that help systems management customers optimize their business flexibility using IBM’s premier monitoring and problem management family of products. But if you don’t stay up-to-date on the newest technology, you’ll miss out on some major improvements. We’ve made it easier for you to by developing this series of educational webcasts focused specifically on the latest technology available in the IBM suite of mainframe products.
Whether you’re an existing OMEGAMON® user, or you’re considering it, these webcasts will give you valuable information about greater visibility into the way services and applications are being executed across the enterprise. You’ll also learn how this helps you use fewer System z® resources and tackle enterprise-wide problems before they become outages. This webcast series is taught by subject matter experts from IBM Software Group who will share the most significant updates to the OMEGAMON product suite so you can:
- Pinpoint more effective ways to decrease costs and reduce risks
- Improve productivity, reduce outages and system overhead
- Decrease your maintenance window and exploit the full capabilities of System z — and zEnterprise™.
Register today for the entire series, or for any of the individual webcasts.
These webcasts were developed to address the educational needs of: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; system analysts; system programmers; and, operations managers
All sessions are one hour in length.
Webcasts
February 2: Get more from your mainframe with proactive end-to-end monitoring
If you moved to IBM zEnterprise or you’re planning a move, it’s a good time to learn more about what’s available today for optimizing your System z or your new zEnterprise and its capabilities. By exploiting the Unified Resource Manager, you have proactive end-to-end monitoring that can give you full visibility across a hybrid computing environment. Join us and learn how new and current workloads can be monitored and managed so you get the most value from your investments.
Speaker: Susan Rice, Tivoli Product Manager
February 9: Reduce costs based on faster problem solving with redesigned OMEGAMON
Is your IT organization under pressure to do more with less? Has your workload increased while staffing has decreased? This webcast will show how enhanced diagnostic capabilities in OMEGAMON can lighten your burden. We’ll discuss how you can more easily monitor and maintain your entire mainframe environment to find and fix problems quickly — before they become outages.
Speaker: Richard Burford, Tivoli OMEGAMON Development
February 16: Tuning tips lower System z costs with OMEGAMON monitoring
If you’re being pushed to increase System z utilization, what can you do today to help reduce costs? This webcast will show you how to lower your mainframe overhead while improving visibility and problem management using OMEGAMON. You’ll come away with practical tips and techniques that you can use immediately from a long-time performance expert. You’ll learn how to dig deeper into your OMEGAMON environment and tune it to improve performance and utilization. This webcast is all about saving money.
Speaker: Don Zeunert, OMEGAMON XE Performance and Tuning
February 23: Good news for maintenance windows: Install and configure OMEGAMON faster
Software maintenance can be a dreaded task, especially if your maintenance window is shrinking. New capabilities in OMEGAMON can eliminate that dread with greatly simplified installation, configuration and maintenance of all its products. Come hear about the new approaches available for significantly enhanced usability and improved productivity for IT operations. We’ll also show you how the latest enhancements to OMEGAMON configuration tooling can help.
Speaker: Cecile Day, Tivoli Monitoring z/OS Installation and Configuration Developer
March 8: See into the heart of CICS and resolve problems faster across LPAR boundaries
CICS® performance is important to every business — and quickly finding and fixing CICS problems is always critical. This webcast will give you an overview how greater visibility into CICS can help IT professionals resolve issues across Parallel Sysplex® and LPAR boundaries with fewer screens and keystrokes. This webcast will also discuss how to more easily monitor and maintain your entire mainframe environment — finding and fixing problems before they become outages.
Speaker: Mike Goodman, Software Product Manager, Tivoli Systems Management
March 15: The critical role of Service Management in moving to cloud on System z
If you’re thinking about moving to cloud on System z, or zEnterprise, good Service Management will be key to your success. In this webcast, we’ll discuss how to tie discovery and monitoring to performance and workload management, while considering capacity planning of your cloud environment on System z. We’ll show you how you can look across virtual servers— System z, System p® and System x® — and associated workload performance goals, to manage your System z resources. We’ll also discuss how Tivoli monitoring can leverage Unified Resource Manager insight at the virtual server and operating system levels. This gives you the Service Management needed to begin successful cloud implementations.
Speaker: Mike Baskey, Integration Architect and Chief Architect Management Standards
March 22: Shave time off application and service delivery with enhanced event management
If you’re already on System z or you’re moving to zEnterprise, you’ve taken the most important step. Now it’s time to make sure you’re taking advantage of recent improvements in performance. The best place to start is by quickly discovering all the applications and events on your mainframe. This webcast will show you how to improve event visibility using Tivoli Discovery and Integration, enabling big savings in time and cost for application and service discovery across zEnterprise, including Linux® on System z and zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension.
Speaker: James Moore, Product Manager, Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager