Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

2001 Tuning Letters

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No. 6 (44 pages)

Management Issues
S/390 News
  • CMF Manuals
  • CICS Migration
  • IBM in the News
  • Hiper APARs
  • SCEERUN
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Pubs & APARs
Focus: StorageTek VSM
  • Introduction
  • General Structure
  • Data Sources
  • STK SMF
  • Recommendations
  • Summary
Coding Without Base Registers
CICS Performance Tips
  • CICS V4 vs TS Performance
  • CICS TS 1.3 & SMF
Q & A
  • CICS and WLM
  • Fewer But Faster CPs
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 5 (44 pages)

Management Issues
S/390 News
  • Hiper APARs
  • Other APARs
  • DSNUTILB
  • JES and z/OS R2
  • Linux
  • DFSORT
  • Tidbits from the Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Pubs & APARs
Focus: WebSphere Tuning – Part 1
  • History
  • IBM HTTP Server
  • WebSphere Application Server
  • Initial Performance Considerations
  • Bibliography
Application Environments
  • Overview
  • Defining Enclaves & AEs
Going to Goal Mode
Q & A
  • Software Pricing
  • TUNING Letter Search
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 4 (52 pages)

Management Issues
S/390 News
  • CICS
  • WLM
  • Hiper APARs
  • Tidbits from the Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Pubs & APARs
Focus: Software Pricing
  • ILM
  • WLC Pricing
  • Value Unit Pricing
  • Observations
  • Things to do now
  • Current Status
  • Additional Notes
  • Recommendations
  • Bibliography
WLM & Sub-CEC Charges
  • Introduction
  • Finding the Data
  • Softcaps in Action
  • Conclusion
SHARE Trip Report (7/01)
  • What’s New
  • z/OS V1R2
  • z/OS V1R3
  • Software Management
Q & A
  • CICS & IMS Goals
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 3 (44 pages)

Management Issues
S/390 News
  • RMF
  • WLM
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Pubs & APARs
Cheryl’s Hot Flashes
  • z900 Notes
  • z900 Compression
  • CPU Overhead
  • Mysteries
  • Miscellaneous
  • Good Reading
  • APARs
  • Other Items
  • WLM APARs
Focus: IRD
  • LPAR Clusters
  • DCM
  • CSSPQ
  • CPU Mgmt: Weights
  • CPU Mgmt: LPs
  • Defined Capacity
  • Feature Availability
  • Future Expectations
  • Bibliography
Q & A
  • What is I/O Priority?
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
Supplement
  • January 2001 CPU Chart update

No. 2 (44 pages)

Management Issues
S/390 News
  • Red Alert (Sysplex)
  • Recent APARs 
  • OS/390 R10 & CA-MIM
  • CA-PMO and PDSEs
  • WebSphere Notes
  • Tidbits from the Forums
  • WSC News
  • The Net
  • Pubs & APARs
CICS Performance Tips
  • CICS Releases
What’s New?
  • The Small Mainframe
  • Java
BoxScore Results
  • z900 Experiences
Q & A
  • z/OS R1 or OS/390 R10
  • R10 Overhead
  • Catalog Reorganization
  • Our MIPS Versus Theirs
  • Shared Memory/Storage
  • Using the TUNING Letter
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 1 (47 pages)

Management Issues
S/390 News
  • UIC in 64-bit
  • Interesting APARs
  • Tidbits from IBM-Main
  • WSC Flashes
  • The Net
  • Pubs & APARs
Focus: Tuning Catalogs
  • Introduction
  • CAS
  • Catalog Sharing
  • Other Factors
  • Monitoring Catalogs
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Notes from Cheryl
Focus: SHARE Trip Report
  • Cheryl’s Hot Flashes #5
  • R10 and z/OS
  • Miscellaneous
CICS Performance Tips
  • Loss of DB2 Defines
What’s New?
  • z/OS R2
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
Supplement
  • January 2001 CPU Chart
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