Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter
Cheryl’s List #93 – September 1, 2004
1. Last Day to Order z/OS 1.4 2. SHARE Presentations Online 3. Sample TUNING Letter Issues Online 4. 2005 TUNING Letter Rates Online 1. Last Day to Order z/OS 1.4 Please note that 9Sept2004 is the last day to order z/OS 1.4 or z/OS 1.5. Why does this matter? If you are running OS/390 R10, that release goes out of service at the end of this month (30Sep2004), and you need to order another release to stay in service. Your choices are one of the following: z/OS 1.4 - End of service...
Cheryl’s List #92 – August 11, 2004
1. SHARE Session Highlights for NYC 2. Another zAAP Clarification 1. SHARE Session Highlights for NYC Brian Peterson and Skip Robinson, SHARE MVS Program Managers, recently posted the following item on IBM-Main. We think it's a great summary of z/OS topics available during the week, especially for those people who are relatively new to SHARE. Greetings to all! It's time to start thinking about the Summer SHARE, August 15-20, 2004 in New York City. We have an excellent slate of sessions,...
Cheryl’s List #91 – August 4, 2004
1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2004 No. 4 2. SHARE in New York City 3. Correction to TUNING Letter 2004 No. 4 4. Correction to TUNING Letter 2004 No. 3 5. Correction to TUNING Letter 2004 No. 2 6. Important VLF Performance Fix 1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2004 No. 4 The forty-page 2004 No. 4 TUNING Letter was emailed to electronic subscribers yesterday. The print issues will be mailed within a week. You can purchase a printed copy of the current TUNING Letter for $95...
Cheryl’s List #90 – June 15, 2004
1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2004 No. 3 The forty-three-page 2004 No. 3 TUNING Letter was emailed to electronic subscribers last Friday. The print issues will be mailed later this week. You can purchase a printed copy of the current TUNING Letter for $95 at http://www.watsonwalker.com. The following "Management Summary" contains a summary of just some of the contents of this latest TUNING Letter. SMF Type 30 Record Problems In working with our BoxScore customers who are analyzing z990...
Cheryl’s List #89 – May 26, 2004
Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2004 No. 2 - z990 Performance vs Expectations Typo Correction to TUNING Letter 2004 No. 2 Important SAS V9.1 Fix New APAR for LPARs 1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2004 No. 2 - z990 Performance vs Expectations The fifty-eight-page 2004 No. 2 TUNING Letter was emailed to electronic subscribers yesterday. The print issues will be mailed within a week. You can purchase a printed copy of the current TUNING Letter for $95 at http://www.watsonwalker.com. Here's the...
Cheryl’s List #88 – April 7, 2004
1. 40th Anniversary of S/360 and IBM Announcements 2. Special Offering on Video Tape Performance Classes 3. Typo Correction 1. 40th Anniversary of S/360 and IBM Announcements Today, April 7th, IBM celebrated the 40th anniversary of the System/360 by announcing several major additions to the mainframe field. IBM has a separate Web page for this anniversary (www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/40years/) where you can read about the history of the mainframe and download a special PDF file...
Cheryl’s List #87 – March 31, 2004
1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2004, No 1 The fifty-page 2004, No. 1 TUNING Letter was emailed to electronic subscribers today. The print issues will be mailed next week. You can purchase a printed copy of the current TUNING Letter for $95 at http://www.watsonwalker.com. The following "Management Summary" contains a summary of just some of the contents of this latest TUNING Letter. z/OS 1.5 and z/OS 1.4 A large part of this TUNING Letter addresses some new facilities that became...
Cheryl’s List #86 – February 25, 2004
Announcing Cheryl Watson's GoalTender™ We are very excited to announce our latest product in our Advisor Series -Cheryl Watson's GoalTender™ and its included started task, Cheryl Watson's Tracker™. Cheryl Watson's Beginning with our free Quickstart Policy in 1995, we have been giving lots of advice in the area of the Workload Manager. Now our WLM analysis techniques and recommendations are available to you through this unique product. Tracker keeps a historical database of WLM service...
Cheryl’s List #85 – February 17, 2004
1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2003, No. 6 2. Some Typos 3. z/OS 1.5 Announcement 4. SHARE Sessions 1. Cheryl Watson's TUNING Letter 2003, No. 6 The forty-four page 2003, No. 6 TUNING Letter was emailed to electronic subscribers on February 13. The print issues will be mailed this week. You can purchase a printed copy of the current TUNING Letter for $95 at http://www.watsonwalker.com. The following "Management Summary" contains a summary of just some of the contents of this latest...
Cheryl’s List #84R – January 20, 2004
1. TUNING Letter 2003, No. 5 Updates The forty-two page 2003, No. 5 TUNING Letter was emailed to electronic subscribers on January 9. The print issues will be mailed this week. There are three corrections we would like to bring to your attention. These will be corrected in the printed issues and Linda May will be sending out corrected PDF files to electronic subscribers within the next few days. Incorrect Session Number Jack Schudel from University of Florida pointed out that my WLM SHARE...