Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

2014 Tuning Letters

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No. 4 (89 pages)

Management Summary
RLS-Managed Catalogs
  • A Little History Lesson
  • Why RLS for Catalogs?
  • Is This Right for You?
  • Implementation
  • Next Steps
  • References
  • Summary
Frank’s Viewpoint
  • Our Own Worst Enemies?
  • Mobile – This Week’s Fad?
  • Prod zEDC Users Wanted
Introduction to Mobile Workload Pricing
  • Why Mobile Workload Pricing
  • Another Layer of Complexity
  • Cost Control
  • Conclusion
  • References
User Experiences
  • XTIOT
  • Fine Tuning
  • zEDC Users
CFCC Enhancements
  • CF Level 15
  • CF Level 16
  • CF Level 17
  • CF Level 18
  • CF Level 19
  • CF Level 20
  • Summary
  • References
zPDT Overview
  • What IS zPDT?
  • Our Experiences With zPDT
  • Conclusions
  • References
News
  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • Sysplex/Availability APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • News From Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
Acknowledgments
  • Blog Entries
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 3 (137 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
Frank’s Viewpoint
  • Techdocs
  • Changing Job Scene
  • Security Concerns
User Experiences
  • Interesting Finds in SMF
  • Page Data Set Usage
  • SMF Type 14/15 Buffers
  • AUTOR Update
  • PDSE Update
What’s New?
  • Preview of z/OS 2.2 & Futures
  • z/OSMF SPE2
  • z/OSMF Update
SMT and System z
  • Background
  • Introducing SMT
  • Evaluating SMT
  • SMT and System z Hardware
  • SMT and z/OS, z/VM, Linux on z
  • Conclusion
  • References
IBM System z Batch Network Analyzer
  • Recent zBNA Enhancements
  • Reference 
  • Summary
IBM Technical Disclosure Meeting
Capping Options – Part 3
  • Introduction  
  • Capping-Related ISV Products 
  • BMC Software
  • zCost Management
  • zIT Consulting
  • Summary of Product Capabilities 
  • Related Products 
  • LPAR Capping Scenarios
  • Summary 
Warning Track Interrupts
  • What Issue Does This Address
  • Implementation 
  • Monitoring and Tuning
  • References 
  • Summary
Notes from SHARE in Pittsburgh
  • ALS 
  • Suggested APARs and Docs
  • Not To Miss Sessions
  • Our Sessions
News
  • New Function APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • Parmlib APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information and DOC APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • News From Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events/Conferences
Acknowledgments
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
  • Blog Entries

No. 2 (166 pages)

Management Summary
Frank's Viewpoint
  • Reader Survey
  • Every Cloud Has a Black Lining
  • Mobile and z/OS
  • Deleting TECHDOC
User Experiences
  • LPAR Overhead vs Risk in LPARs With One CP
  • Standalone or Internal Coupling Facility
  • Impact of Flash Express on Memory Usage
Controlling ‘Large’ Pages
  • 1MB Fixed Pages
  • 2GB Fixed and 1MB Pageable
  • How z/OS Uses Real Memory
  • Preparing for Large Pages
  • Monitoring and Managin
  • Exploitation Prerequisites
  • Reference
What’s New?
  • Interesting Announcement
  • Hardware Announcement
  • z/OS 2.1 Enhancements
  • Statements of Direction
  • z/OSMF Enhancements
Problem Management Tools
  • What To Do First
  • Opening a PMR
  • The Life of a PMR
  • Additional IBM Support
Capping Options – Part 2
  • Quick Intro to Soft Capping
  • Defined Capacity
  • Capacity Groups
  • Absolute Capping
  • Capacity Provisioning Manager
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Helpful Tool
zEDC
  • Compression Functions
  • Comparative Performance
  • Which Products Exploit zEDC
  • zEDC Setup
  • Managing zEDC
  • Monitoring zEDC
  • References
Coupling Thin Interrupts – Part 2
  • What Are Thin Interrupts?
  • A Little Background
  • Coupling Thin Interrupts & CFs
  • Prerequisites
  • Implementation
  • Summary
  • Reference
News
  • New Function APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • Parmlib APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • News From Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events/Conferences
Acknowledgments
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

No. 1 (110 pages)

Management Summary
Welcome Frank Kyne
Parmlib Updates z/OS 2.1 – Part 2
  • IGDSMSxx, IGGCATxx
  • IKJTSOxx, IOEPRMxx
  • IQPPRMxx, ISFPRMxx
  • IXGCNFxx, JES2PARM
  • LOADxx, SCHEDxx
  • SMFPRMxx, TSOKEY00
Parmlib Updates for z/OS 1.13
  • COUPLExx, IOEPRMxx, 
  • IGDSMSxx, PROGxx
Parmlib Updates in Service
  • IGDSMSxx, BPXPRMxx
  • IECIOSxx
Coupling Thin Interrupts
  • z/OS Exploitation
  • Enabling in z/OS
New Health Checks
Notes from SHARE
  • Suggested APARs
  • Favorite Sessions
Mainframe’s 50th Anniversary
System z Capping Options
  • Introduction
  • WLM Resource Groups
  • Varying CPs and Weights
  • Initial Capping
  • Intelligent Resource Director
What’s New?
  • DFSMS and zEDC
User Experiences
  • MAXEVENTINTRECS Parm
  • RLS-managed Catalogs
Frank’s Viewpoint
  • Smarter Defaults? 
  • Rolling Back New Functions
  • A z/OSMF Convert
  • Evening News?
  • Let’s Talk Scale
News
  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • News from Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
Acknowledgments
Cheryl’s List Blog Posts
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