Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

2010 Tuning Letters

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No. 6 (56 pages)

Management Summary
FOCUS: Parmlib Changes
  • All Parmlib Members
  • Members ALLOCxx, ANTMIN00, ANTXIN00, AUTORxx, AXRxx
  • Members BLSCECT, BLSCUSER, BPXPRMxx
  • Members CEAPRMxx CEEPRMxx, CLOCKxx, CNIDTRxx, COFVLFxx, CONFIGxx, CONSOLxx, COUPLExx, CSVLLAx, CSVRTLxx, CUNUNIxx
User Experiences
  • SMF Negative Values
Reader Feedback
  • CA-7 and PDSEs
  • VVDS Errors
  • VWLC
From the Forums
  • CS Increase on z/OS 1.11
  • MIPS
zManager Performance
  • zManager Review
  • Ensemble Overview
  • Ensemble Performance
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER & Performance APARs .
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications 
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 5 (47 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
User Experiences
  • z/OS 1.12 Message Change
  • PFA Experiences
  • VVDS Space Map
  • Low Private Storage
Reader Feedback
  • ALLOCxx Update
  • Solid State Drives
From the Forums
  • High CPU in CPUPAGTM
  • Comparative Products
  • z/OS 1.12 SDSF
  • New DFSORT/ICETOOL
  • PDSE Versus PDS
  • XCF AUTOALTER
  • New Address Space
  • VWLC
  • MQ, Sysplex, MEMSTALLTIME
  • Leap Seconds
What’s New?
  • z/OS 1.12 for Programmers
News
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • WSC News
Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 4 (62 pages)

Management Summary
SHARE Notes
zEnterprise
  • Overview
  • z196
  • zBX
  • IBM Smart Optimizer 
  • zManager
z196 Processors
  • z196 Models
  • Hardware Costs
  • Specialty Processor Costs
  • Software Costs
  • Larger Upgrades
  • LSPR Analysis
z/OS 101
  • IBM Non-z Hardware
  • IBM Non-z Software
  • More New Terms
User Experiences
  • CICS and MSO
  • DFSMSdss on z/OS 1.11
  • DB2 Lock Structure
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER/Performance APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 3 (35 pages)

Management Summary
  • Hot Flashes #25
  • Who is Cheryl Watson? 
  • SMF Type 113s
  • z196 Power Saving Mode
  • z/OS Releases
  • IPL Avoidance
z/OS 1.11 Experiences
  • SHARE User Experiences
  • Forums
  • More Notes
z/OS 1.12 Preview
  • SODs
  • Available Now
  • My Favorites
  • Summary
Reader Feedback
  • zHPF
  • SVC Dump Buffers
What’s New?
  • zFuture, zNext, or z11? 
From the Forums
  • DB2 Parallelism
  • BIG IRON Video
  • Which SVCs Are in Use? 
  • TIOT Usage by Job
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER/Performance APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 2 (47 pages)

Management Summary
z/OSMF
  • Introduction
  • Incident Log
  • User Experiences
  • Recommendation
z/OS Education
  • The New Face of z/OS
  • Marist IDCP
  • z/OS Basic Skills
  • More IBM Offerings
  • Interskill Learning
  • SHARE
  • Tuning Letter
  • Other Options
Reader Feedback
  • ALLOCxx Update
  • Java & Large Pages
  • DB2 Buffer Pools
Health Checker & PFA
User Experiences
  • HiperDispatch
  • Locked Out of SMP/E? 
  • BCPii
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER/Performance APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 1 (69 pages)

Management Summary
z/OS 101
  • Virtual Storage Introduction
  • Definitions
  • VSTOR Below the Bar
  • VSTOR Above the Bar
  • Summary
Focus: IEASYS – Part 2
  • IEASYSxx Parameters
  • Storage-Related Parms
  • All the Rest
  • Summary
Reader Feedback
  • IEAOPTxx Update – ECMB
Mean Time to Recovery
  • New Redbook
What’s New?
  • IBM Announcements
  • Mark’s MVS Utilities
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER/Performance APARs
  • SMF APARS
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
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