Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter
Cheryl’s List #133 – May 1, 2009
1. MTTR ITSO Residency - Help Please 2. Are You Running SMF Logger? 1. MTTR ITSO Residency - Help Please We sent this request out two weeks ago, and have been pleased with the replies we’ve received, but we could really use more responses. Can you take ten minutes and help out a little? Answering even a few of the questions below will give us help. And if anyone can send some start up or shut down logs for z/OS and the joblogs from any subsystem (especially CICS, IMS, and DB2), it would...
Cheryl’s List #132 – April 17, 2009
1. MTTR ITSO Residency 2. Correction in Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2009 No. 1 3. Hot Flashes Update 1. MTTR ITSO Residency While at SHARE, I heard about an interesting upcoming ITSO residency on reducing the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). IBM’s ITSO (International Technical Support Organization) is the organization that publishes Redbooks, and the objective of this four-week residency in May is to produce a Redbook showing ways to reduce the MTTR (the time to shut down a z/OS system and...
Cheryl’s List #131 – March 10, 2009
1. Cheryl’s Presentations at SHARE 2. Caution For RSU0901 3. Important z/OS 1.10 APAR 1. Cheryl's Presentations at SHARE Cheryl's presentations from last week's Austin SHARE conference are now available at http://www.watsonwalker.com/presentations.html. These are: Session 3117 - Can You Teach a New Capacity & Performance Specialist Old Tricks? Session 2509 - Cheryl's Hot Flashes # 21 Almost all of the SHARE presentations for this conference are now available on the SHARE Web site at...
Cheryl’s List #130 – March 1, 2009
1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2009 No. 1 2. Correction to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2009 No. 1 3. IBM Red Alert 4. Cheryl Blogs at SHARE 5. Our Software Products 1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2009 No. 1 The sixty-five page 2009 No. 1 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on February 28th. You may visit our Web site at http://www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information. The following is a summary of just some of the contents of this latest Tuning...
Cheryl’s List #129 – February 15, 2009
1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 6 2. Our New 'Free Tools' Section 3. IBM Red Alert 4. Clarification to Tuning Letter 2008 No. 6 5. Our Annual DVDs Have Been Mailed 1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 6 The forty page 2008 No. 6 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on January 20th. You may visit our Web site at http://www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information. The following is a summary of just some of the contents of this latest Tuning...
Cheryl’s List #128 – December 16, 2008
1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 5 2. Great Website for z/OS 1.10 Migration 3. IBM Red Alert 4. Putting z/VM to Sleep 5. Clarification to Tuning Letter 2008 No. 3 1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 5 The forty-six page 2008 No. 5 Tuning Letter was emailed to subscribers on December 5th. You may visit our Web site at http://www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information. The following is a summary of just some of the contents of this latest Tuning...
Cheryl’s List #127 – November 12, 2008
1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 4 2. IBM Announces New Processors 3. Cheryl Watson’s CPU Chart, October 2008 4. New IBM Red Alert 5. Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama 1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 4 The forty-four page 2008 No. 4 Tuning Letter was emailed to subscribers on October 2nd. You may visit our Web site at http://www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information. The following is a summary of just some of the contents of...
Cheryl’s List #126 – August 27, 2008
1. SHARE in San Jose 2. Hot Flashes Survey Results 2. z/OS 1.7 News 3. Looking for Help 1. SHARE in San Jose The SHARE conference held in San Jose on August 10-15 was as great as always. It’s like attending three simultaneous, week-long classes. There is so much to learn. I’m working on our next newsletter, which contains some of the highlights and other parts of the total SHARE experience. In the meantime, however, the public can access all of the presentations at the SHARE website...
Cheryl’s List #125 – August 6, 2008
1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 3 2. Updates to TUNING Letter & CPU Chart 3. SHARE in San Jose 4. 2009 Newsletter Rates 5. Humor from our Son-in-Law, the Engineer 1. Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2008 No. 3 The fifty-two page 2008 No. 3 Tuning Letter was emailed to subscribers on July 24. You may visit our Web site at http://www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information. The following is a summary of just some of the contents of this latest Tuning Letter: IBM...
Cheryl’s List #124 – June 19, 2008
1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2008 No. 2 2. SMF Results 3. New IBM Red Alert for DB2 1. Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2008 No. 2 The fifty-eight page 2008 No. 2 Tuning Letter was emailed to subscribers on May 23. You may visit our Web site at http://www.watsonwalker.comto obtain single issues for $155 each. The following is a summary of just some of the contents of this latest Tuning Letter: IBM Announcements On February 26th, IBM made two important announcements. The first was their...