Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

2009 Tuning Letters

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No. 6 (42 pages)

Management Summary
Focus: IEASYS – Part 1
  • General Notes
  • IPLing the System
  • LOADxx
  • IEASYMxx
  • IEASYSxx
How to Influence IBM
  • SHARE Requirements
  • What Are Requirements? 
  • How to be a Voting Member
  • Viewing Requirements
  • Creating Requirements
Reader Feedback
  • Changes in ALLOC
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER & Attention APARs
  • SMF APARS
  • Other Interesting APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 5 (53 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
APARs
  • Why Read This
  • Life & Death of a Problem
  • How to Read an APAR
  • Recommendations
User Experiences
  • Software Pricing
SHARE Trip Report
Reader Feedback
  • SMF Type 99s
  • CICS Compression
  • Solid State Drives
  • Neon’s zPrime
What’s New?
  • z/OS 1.10 and Earlier
  • z/OS 1.11
Cheryl’s Hot Flashes
  • z/OS iPhone Apps
  • IBM Survey
  • Mean Time to Recovery
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER & Attention APARs
  • SMF APARS
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 4 (46 pages)

Management Summary
SMF Update — Part 6
  • User Survey Results
  • Security — Types 80-83
  • WLM — Type 99
  • CICS — Type 110-111
  • DB2 — Types 100-102
User Experiences
  • WLM & z/OS 1.10
Reader Feedback
  • SMF Management
What’s New?
  • zPrime
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER & Performance APARs 
  • SMF APARs
  • WSC News 
  • Publications
  • Announcements/Red Alerts
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 3 (46 pages)

Management Summary
  • Hot Flashes #25
  • Who is Cheryl Watson? 
  • SMF Type 113s
  • z196 Power Saving Mode
  • z/OS Releases
  • IPL Avoidance
z/OS 101
  • Terminology
  • References
  • System Logger
  • Logstreams
  • Defining Logstreams
  • Offloading Logstreams
SMF Update – Part 5
  • BUSIZMAX Parameter
  • Writing SMF to Data Sets
  • SMF Statistics – Type 23
  • SMF Logger Update
  • Writing SMF to Logstreams
  • Dumping SMF Data
  • Splitting GDGs
  • Logger Recommendations
User Experiences
  • SMF Logger
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 2 (53 pages)

Management Summary
SHARE in Austin
  • My Blog at SHARE
  • Important APARs
  • WSC Short Stories
  • Performance Hot Topics
  • z/OS 1.9 Update
  • z/OS 1.10 Update
Hot Flashes #21
  • Survey Results
  • z/OS 1.10 Getmains
User Experiences
  • High DB2 zIIP CPU
  • ISPF in z/OS 1.10
Reader Feedback
  • IEAOPTxx Correction
  • New IEAoptxx Parameter
  • Dispatching Priorities
  • Type 19 SMF Records
  • HiperDispatch APAR
  • Cooling on System z
What’s New?
  • Predictive Failure Analysis
  • Solid State Disks
  • z/OS 1.11 Preview
News
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER APARs
  • Performance APARS
  • APARs from MXG Forum
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 1 (65 pages)

Management Summary
Parmlib Analysis: IEAOPTxx
  • Introduction
  • Parameters
  • Summary
WLM Update
  • Free Tools
  • z/OS 1.9 Enhancements
  • z/OS 1.10 Enhancements
  • Storage Shortage Mgmt
User Experiences
  • HiperDispatch Experiences
Reader Feedback
  • SMF Type 42
  • MS Outlook
  • Nice Comments
  • More zAAP Exploiters
News
  • z/OS Information Center 
  • New Function APARs
  • HIPER APARs
  • WSC News
  • Publications
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
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