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 and Reports
- Invoice Detail Report in ITFM
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:
