1. Great z/OS News From IBM 2. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2012 No. 1 3. SHARE in Atlanta 1. Great z/OS News From IBM Today at SHARE, Jeff Magdall, z/OS Program Leader from IBM, described an upcoming SOD (Statement of Direction) for z/OS. Starting with z/OS 1.13, z/OS releases will now be available every other…
1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 6 2. Correction to Tuning Letter 2011 No. 6 3. RSM Problem? 4. HIPER APARs for DS8700/DS8800s 1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 6 The 40-page 2011 No. 6 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on December 29, 2011. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com…
1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 5 2. Correction to Tuning Letter 2011 No. 5 3. RSM Problem? 4. Two IBM Red Alerts 1. Cheryl Watson’s Tunig Letter 2011 No. 5 The 41-page 2011 No. 5 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on December 20, 2011. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com…
1. Correction for BPXPRMxx Recommendation 2. Caution on APAR for DB2 V10 3. Feedback on z114 Machines 4. Request for Experiences with PFA 5. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 5 6. Last Update on zPrime 1. Correction for BPXPRMxx Recommendation In our Tuning Letter 2010 No. 6 (page 11), we made a recommendation that…
1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 4 2. Neat Mainframe Study 1. Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 4 The 55-page 2011 No. 4 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on October 13. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the table of contents. The following is the…
1. Tuning Letter Survey 2. Personal Note & Next Tuning Letter 1. Tuning Letter Survey Recently we sent out a survey to our Tuning Letter subscribers. While our subscribers will be getting the full results, we wanted to share these with our Cheryl’s List recipients. We were pleased that the response to “How satisfied are…
1. Cheryl’s Hot Flashes #26 2. Update on z/OSMF 3. SHARE in Orlando 1. Cheryl ‘s Hot Flashes #26 You probably know that I give a presentation on the last day of every SHARE confer-ence called “Cheryl’s Hot Flashes.” This was my 13th year of giving these sessions where I bring up a few tidbits…
1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 3 2. IBM’s New z114 Processors 3. Correction for Free Tools Program, RNIHINT 4. Looking for User Experiences 5. Subscribe Now! 1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 3 The 48-page 2011 No. 3 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on July 8. You may…
1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 2 2. Analyzing SMF 113 Records 3. Upcoming Conferences 4. zPrime Conclusion 5. IBM Redbooks 6. Authors Wanted 1. About Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2011 No. 2 The 42-page 2011 No. 2 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on May 3rd. You may visit our website…
1. SMF Type 113 Records 2. SHARE in Anaheim 3. zPrime Update 1. SMF Type 113 Records In Cheryl’s List #147, we described two new tools that we created to show you your Relative Nest Intensity (RNI) and workload. These are available on our website (www.watsonwalker.com and select Free Tools on the left). But we…
