Mainframe service
Best practices to right-size consumption
CPU hours
- Maintain, optimize, and/or tune applications to increase efficiency of DB2 and CICS code
- Review and optimize frequency and scheduling of batch jobs
- Review rebinding SQL code in new version of DB2 optimizer
- Consolidate applications and CICS environments to lower CICS region management costs
- Long term: Migrate application code to servers where applicable and use mainframe as a database server to use less costly zIIP engine
- Consider hiring a third party to maintain, tune, and optimize applications and databases
Storage and backup
- Review and optimize storage capacity
- Review retention of backups and eliminate redundant backups
- Implement agency data retention plan for long-term data storage
Sources of information/reports
- Invoice Detail Report in ITFM
Steps to request service change
- Submit a request in the GETS Service Catalog to add, change, or remove applications and optical storage: Infrastructure Services > Mainframe
See also a glossary of GETS terms in the PDF below offering useful descriptions of elements referenced above: