2001 Tuning Letters

2001 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 

• #59 

2001 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

• #57, 58

2001 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

• #56

2001 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

• #54, 55

Supplement:

January 2001 CPU Chart update

2001 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

• #53

2001 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

• #49, 50, 51, 52

Supplement:

January 2001 CPU Chart