IBM Data and Analytics Redbooks

The Value of Active-Active Sites with Q Replication for IBM DB2 for z/OS An Innovative IBM Client's Experience
Data and Analytics

Redpaper, published 23 Jan 2015

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Any business interruption is a potential loss of revenue. Achieving business continuity involves a tradeoff between the cost of an outage or data loss with the investment required for achieving the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). Continuous system availability requires scalability, as well as failover capability for maintenance, outages, and disasters. It also requires a shift from standby to active-active systems. Active-active sites are geographically distant transaction processing centers, each with the infrastructure to run business operations and with ... [more]

Getting Started with IBM InfoSphere Optim Workload Replay for DB2
Data and Analytics

Redbooks, published 18 Jan 2015

This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you install, configure, and use IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Workload Replay (InfoSphere Workload Replay), a web-based tool that lets you capture real production SQL workload data and then replay the workload data in a pre-production environment. With InfoSphere Workload Replay, you can set up and run realistic tests for enterprise database changes without the need to create a complex client and application infrastructure to mimic your production environment. The publication goes through the steps to install and configure the InfoSphere Workload Replay ... [more]

SIMD Business Analytics Acceleration on z Systems
IBM Z

Point-of-View, published 14 Jan 2015, last updated 14 Jan 2015

The new Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) accelerator is integrated into the latest IBM z Systems CPUs, starting with the new IBM z13, to enable workloads for acceleration by using new types of instructions that can act on multiple data elements simultaneously, even at the level of a single instruction. SIMD acceleration can help IT organizations meet shrinking batch window times and increasing data throughput requirements for mainframe workloads. It can also be applied to extract real-time insight from financial and consumer transactions, because with acceleration, the workloads can ... [more]

Reliable Analytics by Using IBM z13
Data and Analytics

Solution Guide, published 14 Jan 2015

Analytics projects mainly draw on mainframe-based transactional data. However, in the last two decades, analytics solutions have been deployed as departmental applications, based on very specific business needs of the requesting department. This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes how IBM z13™ can help organizations maximize their current IT investments while adding functionality and improved price and performance with z13 over IBM zEnterprise® EC12 (zEC12. With new z13 features, applications can gain increased throughput for distributed operational business intelligence (BI) and IBM ... [more]

Retain and Delight Your Customers by Applying IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence
Data and Analytics

Redguide, published 6 Jan 2015

What if you knew which customers would most likely respond to a campaign or marketing promotion? Or knew which customers are at risk for attrition and if given the chance could provide retention offers that significantly reduced the risk of customer attrition? What if you knew the best cross-sell/up-sell opportunities with your customers? What if you and your organization knew the best action to take with each customer right now? How would it help your business if you knew each customer’s lifetime value? What if you could easily find ways to increase customer repeat visits and grow loyal ... [more]