Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter
A Planet Mainframe Brand
2013 Tuning Letters
No. 4 (60 pages)
Management Summary
User Experiences
- Tuning Letter DVD
- More on BCPii
- Faster Processors?
- zHPF Update
More Parmlib Updates for z/OS 1.13
- AUTORxx, COUPLExx
- CTnccxx, DEVSUPxx
Parmlib Updates for z/OS 2.1 -Part 1
- ADYSETxx, ALLOCxx
- AUTORxx, BPXPRMxx
- CEAPRMxx, CEEPRMxx
- CLOCKxx, CNIDTRxx
- CNGRPxx, COFVLFxx
- CONFIGxx, CONSOLxx
- COUPLExx
- CUNUNIxx, DEVSUPxx
- DIAGxx, GTZPRMxx
- HZSPRMxx, IEASLPxx
- IEASVCxx, IEASYSxx
- IECIOSxx
- Letter to IBM Editors
RMF XML
- Introduction
- XML Toolkit
- Spreadsheet Reporter
- Other Interfaces
What’s New?
- PDSE
News
- New Function APARs
- New Function Subsystem APARs
- SMF APARs
- HIPER APARs
- News from Techdocs
- Social Media
- Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
- Blog Entries
No. 3 (69 pages)
Management Summary
- Passing the Baton
- What’s New in SMF?
- IOPs – the ‘Shrinking Violets’ of I/O Processing
- User Experiences and Tips
- News You Can Use
Focus: Exploiting z/OS – Part 4
- Introduction
- OPERLOG
- CEA
- CIM
Parmlib Updates for z/OS 1.13
- Comments
- AUTOR00
- CEAPRMxx
- DIAGxx
- GRSCNFxx
- IEAFIXxx/IEALPAxx
- IEASYSxx
- IKJPRM00
- IXGCNFxx
- LOADxx
- MPFLSTxx
- SMFPRMxx
IBM Education
User Experiences
- WLM Dispatching Priorities
- Update on COBOL 5.1
- Security APARs
- Mainframe Freebies
- Liberty Profile Update
Hardware Announcements
- zEC12 Enhancements
- zBC12 Processors
News
- New Function APARs
- SMF APARs
- Information APARs
- News from Techdocs
- Social Media
- Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
- Blog Entries
No. 2 (69 pages)
Management Summary
Exploiting z/OS – Part 3
- Introduction
- BCPii
- EAVs
z/OS 2.1 Preview
- Benefit of Requirements
- DASD Requirements
SMF Type 42.6
- SMF Type 42.6
- zFS and HFS Counts
What’s New?
- WAS Liberty Profile
- IBM Announcements
Parmlib Changes
- ALLOCxx
- IEAOPTxx
User Experiences
- DB2 zIIP Eligible Time
- DB2 10 Increased CPU Time
- MIPS per MSU
zBNA
- Background
- How Does zBNA Work?
- Other Uses for zBNA
News
- New Function APARs
- SMF APARs
- HIPER APARs
- Miscellaneous APARs
- News from Techdocs
- Social Media
- Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
No. 1 (68 pages)
Management Summary
Focus: zEC12 Enhancements
- Introduction
- Flash Express
- Transactional Execution
- zAware
- More zEC12 enhancements on z/OS 1.12
- More zEC12 enhancements on z/OS 1.13
z/OS 2.1 Preview
- Statements of Direction
- Available now on z/OS 1.12
- Available now on z/OS 1.13
SHARE Tidbits
- “Best Session Ever”
- The Standards
- And Other Neat Sessions
Large Memory Pages
- Introduction
- Virtual to Real Address Translation
What’s New?
- IBM Redbooks
User Experiences
- EAVs
- RMF and WLM Capping
- CA Update on zIIPs/zAAPs
Outsourcing
- Introduction
- Baseline Measurements
- Service Level Objectives
- Capacity Plan
- Benchmarks
- Reporting Plan
- Meeting Plan
- Right of Access
- Penalties
- A Final Note
News
- New Function APARs
- SMF APARs
- Information APARs
- HIPER APARs
- News from Techdocs
- Social Media
- Publications