Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

2003 Tuning Letters

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No. 6 (44 pages)

Management Summary
News
  • Interesting APARs
  • FICON APARs
  • Nuggets from Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Publications
IRD Update
FOCUS: CPU Reporting – I
  • CPU Utilization
  • Capacity Trending
User Experiences
  • Console Performance
  • SMF Type 30 CPU Time
  • z/VM in 64-Bit
  • WLM & SYSOTHER
  • VSAM
Q & A
  • Swappable WebSphere
  • DDF Enclaves
  • APPC Classification
What’s New?
  • Software Pricing
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 5 (42 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
S/390 News
  • SMB Addition
  • CICS TS 2.2 Extended
  • Retain Releases
  • Important APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • Nuggets from Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Publications
Focus: IRD CPU Management
  • LPAR Clusters
  • CPU Weight Mgmt
  • CPU Vary Mgmt
  • IRD Reporting
  • Other Considerations
  • Bibliography
User Experiences
  • VTS
  • VSAM
  • SMF Type 42
  • Module Fetch Monitor
  • Increasing CSTOR
  • CICS Threadsafe
  • CA-MIM and GRS
  • DB2 Query Parallelism
Q & A
  • Classification Rules
What’s New?
  • Product Withdrawals
  • Software Pricing
  • IBM SOD for z/OS
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 4 (52 pages)

Management Summary
S/390 News
  • HIPER APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • Nuggets from Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Publications
Hot Flashes #10
  • z/OS
  • VSAM RLS
  • Miscellaneous
SHARE Trip Report (8/03)
  • Console Restructure
  • GRS
  • Binder
  • DFSMS
  • VSAM Tuning
  • z/OS
System Managed Buffering
  • Floating Point Data
What’s New?
  • Software Pricing
  • WebSphere V5
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries
Supplement
  • zSeries CPU Chart – September 2003

No. 3 (62 pages)

Management Summary
  • Hot Flashes #25
  • Who is Cheryl Watson? 
  • SMF Type 113s
  • z196 Power Saving Mode
  • z/OS Releases
  • IPL Avoidance
News
  • HIPER APARs
  • CICS Tips
  • Interesting Tips
  • SQL Performance Tips
  • Adabas and WLM
  • WebSphere Update
  • LE Module List
  • DDF
  • From the Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Publications
What’s New?
  • New zSeries z990s
  • New Pricing Options
  • z/OS Releases
  • Capacity Upgrades
  • ESS Enhancements
User Experiences
  • SMS Trace
  • Page Fixing
  • RSU Parameter
  • Erase on Scratch
CICS Performance Tips
  • CICS and SDUMPs
  • High CPU
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
Dynamic ISPF: An Update

No. 2 (62 pages)

Management Summary
S/390 News
  • HIPER APARs
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Publications
Focus: WLM Update
  • New Quickstart Policy
  • Oracle and WLM
  • User Experiences
  • The Next WLM
SHARE Trip Report (2/03)
  • Hot Flashes #9
  • z/OS
  • Hardware
  • GRS
  • JES2
  • z/OS UNIX
  • DFSMShsm
  • Language Environment
  • Java on z/OS
  • Miscellaneous
What’s New?
  • WebSphere on z/OS
  • IBM Health Checker
Parallel Sysplex Update
  • System-Managed Duplex
  • SHARE Items
User Experiences
  • UNIX OBROWSE
  • Sorts
  • z/Architecture
  • CA-PMO
CICS Performance Tips
  • The CICS OTE
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 1 (40 pages)

Management Summary
S/390 News
  • IBMLink2000
  • TMON/MVS
  • HIPER APARs 
  • SMF Buffers
  • HFS 
  • Nuggets from the Forums
  • WSC News 
  • The Net
  • Publications
Focus: WLM/SRM Update
  • Interesting APARs 
  • IEAOPTxx in Goal Mode
  • Storage Controls
  • WebSphere Tran Class
  • Stored Procedures
Q & A
  • RSU
  • Update on MVS Email
  • Media Manager
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
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