Challenge In 2008, Banorte Financial Group faced several production issues along its mainframe’s Logical Partitions (LPARs) that were negatively affecting operations and productivity experience, as well as leaving the company vulnerable to regulatory infractions. LPARs are individual systems created by dividing a mainframe processor’s memory and storage into multiple sets of resources. Each of these resources manages different functions within an operation. An LPAR’s size and speed are determined by the system’s Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS). The larger the output needed from a particular LPAR, the more MIPS would need to be added. The problem? Banorte was still operating with an outdated monitoring system consisting of Excel spreadsheets to identify workload

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