2003 Tuning Letters

2003 No. 6 (44 pages)
Management Summary
News

• Interesting APARs
• FICON APARs
• Nuggets from Forums
• WSC News
• The Net
• Publications

IRD Update
FOCUS: CPU Reporting – I

• CPU Utilization
• Capacity Trending

User Experiences

• Console Performance
• SMF Type 30 CPU Time
• z/VM in 64-Bit
• WLM & SYSOTHER
• VSAM

Q & A

• Swappable WebSphere
• DDF Enclaves
• APPC Classification

What’s New?

• Software Pricing

Cheryl’s List 

• #83, 84

2003 No. 5 (42 pages)

Management Summary

S/390 News
• SMB Addition
• CICS TS 2.2 Extended
• Retain Releases
• Important APARs
• Red Alerts
• Nuggets from Forums
• WSC News
• The Net
• Publications

Focus: IRD CPU Management

• LPAR Clusters
• CPU Weight Mgmt
• CPU Vary Mgmt
• IRD Reporting
• Other Considerations
• Bibliography

User Experiences

• VTS
• VSAM
• SMF Type 42
• Module Fetch Monitor
• Increasing CSTOR
• CICS Threadsafe
• CA-MIM and GRS
• DB2 Query Parallelism

Q & A

• Classification Rules

What’s New?

• Product Withdrawals
• Software Pricing
• IBM SOD for z/OS

Cheryl’s List

• #82

2003 No. 4 (52 pages)

Management Summary

S/390 News
• HIPER APARs
• Red Alerts
• Nuggets from Forums
• WSC News
• The Net
• Publications

Hot Flashes #10

• z/OS
• VSAM RLS
• Miscellaneous

SHARE Trip Report (8/03)

• Console Restructure
• GRS
• Binder
• DFSMS
• VSAM Tuning
• z/OS

System Managed Buffering

Floating Point Data

What’s New?
• Software Pricing
• WebSphere V5

Cheryl’s List

• #79, 80, 81

Supplement:

zSeries CPU Chart – September 2003

2003 No. 3 (62 pages)

Management Summary

News
• HIPER APARs
• CICS Tips
• Interesting Tips
• SQL Performance Tips
• Adabas and WLM
• WebSphere Update
• LE Module List
• DDF
• From the Forums
• WSC News
• The Net
• Publications

What’s New?

• New zSeries z990s
• New Pricing Options
• z/OS Releases
• Capacity Upgrades
• ESS Enhancements

User Experiences

• SMS Trace
• Page Fixing
• RSU Parameter
• Erase on Scratch

CICS Performance Tips

• CICS and SDUMPs
• High CPU

Cheryl’s List

• #76, 77, 78

Dynamic ISPF: An Update

2003 No. 2 (62 pages)
Management Summary
S/390 News

• HIPER APARs
• WSC News
• The Net
• Publications

Focus: WLM Update

• New Quickstart Policy
• Oracle and WLM
• User Experiences
• The Next WLM

SHARE Trip Report (2/03)

• Hot Flashes #9
• z/OS
• Hardware
• GRS
• JES2
• z/OS UNIX
• DFSMShsm
• Language Environment
• Java on z/OS
• Miscellaneous

What’s New?

• WebSphere on z/OS
• IBM Health Checker

Parallel Sysplex Update

• System-Managed Duplex
• SHARE Items

User Experiences

• UNIX OBROWSE
• Sorts
• z/Architecture
• CA-PMO

CICS Performance Tips

• The CICS OTE

Cheryl’s List

• #75

2003 No. 1 (40 pages)
Management Summary 
S/390 News

• IBMLink2000
• TMON/MVS
• HIPER APARs 
• SMF Buffers
• HFS 
• Nuggets from the Forums
• WSC News 
• The Net
• Publications

Focus: WLM/SRM Update

• Interesting APARs 
• IEAOPTxx in Goal Mode
• Storage Controls
• WebSphere Tran Class
• Stored Procedures

Q & A

• RSU
• Update on MVS Email
• Media Manager

Cheryl’s List

• #73, 74