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White Papers
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Expanding the Ever-Shrinking Batch Window
Today’s 24/7/365 world demands the highest levels of reliability and availability that we have ever seen. This white paper demonstrates VSAM’s ability to share datasets between jobs in four different ways – saving time and expenses. |
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The Realities of Cost-Effective File Management
Effective file management presents challenges to the IT department and the end-user community alike. This white paper provides background on the environment, identifies challenges, and provides advice based upon expertise and best practices. |
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Turning Raw Data into Useable Information
All corporations have two things in common—more data than they can handle and the information that they require is not readily accessible.
The future of your business could be determined by your lack of a data mining/data analytics strategy.
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Data Mining for the IT Department
The chances are that your organization has a tool that could be used for data mining, such as a reportwriter
or 4GL. Although used extensively in the business side of most operations, these tools are often
neglected in the IT department, and yet they can be an invaluable aid in many areas.
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Data Mining-Rapid Access to Buried Information
What is data mining? In layman's terms it is simply a systematic rummaging though potentially unrelated
files of data to retrieve some type of information-preferably information that is of use to you. It is
important to remember, though, that producing a message saying, "NO MATCHES FOUND," is often more
valuable than producing an unmanageably large listing of matching information.
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CSI's V-Share - Overcoming the VSAM Bottleneck
For years,VSAM has been the backbone of many application systems. Properly implemented, it is efficient,
flexible and easy to use. It can share files between applications, with certain limitations, and can let
your files grow with no effort on your part by inserting records and allocating extra extents. Did you
notice the “with certain limitations” in that last sentence? Those limitations are VSAM's Achilles' heel,
and have probably caused more database conversions and platform changes than were really necessary. |
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CSI's VSUM = VSAM Optimization
The results of poor VSAM parameters include higher hardware costs (you have to pay for disk drives
whether they are full or empty), slow performance and repeated reorgs that serve no useful purpose.
Given that everyone is trying to contain costs, a software tool such as CSI's VSUM can identify datasets
that are causing problems and help decide on better definition parameters to ensure efficient use in the
future. VSUM works both online or in batch. |
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