100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Introduction Mainframe departments in larger enterprises are contending with three strong cross-currents. The challenge to keep up with rising data volumes from ever-changing applications running on a growing array of mobile and interconnected devices (IoT) causes continued pressure to squeeze more performance out of their existing mainframes to avoid or defer major upgrades. Obvious measures to get relief from these pressures revolve around the mundane processing tasks (sort, copy, merge, compression, report generation) that take up a large and disproportionate share of CPU processing time and related mainframe resources. Such chores typically consume 10% to 25% of total processor resources and 15% to 30% of total I/O channel resources. It’s important t

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