2008 No. 6 (40 pages)
Management Summary
Focus: SMF – Part 4
- User Survey Results
- Obtaining SMF Counts
- Volume Configuration
- Volume Activity
- Non-VSAM Data Sets
- VSAM Data Sets & Catalogs
- Specialty Data Sets
- Total Activity
- Collection Recommendations
User Experiences
- Cooling Problem
- z/OS 1.9 SDSF Commands
IBM Announcements
- OSA-Express3 & Infiniband
- System Timer Protocol (STP)
- Software Price Increase
Reeder Feedback
- HyperPAV
- HiperDispatch on z10 BC
- z/OS 1.10 C/C++
- z10 Compression
z/OS 101
- Volume-related Records
- File-related Records
- Total I/O Activity
News
- New Function APARs
- HIPER APARs
- WSC News
- Publications
Cheryl’s List
- #128
2008 No. 5 (46 pages)
Management Summary
Focus: z/OS 1.10
- z/OS 1.7-1.10
- z/OS 1.8-1.10
- z/OS 1.9-1.10
- z/OS 1.10 Only
Focus: SMF – Part 3
- SMFPRMxx Update
- Address Space-related Records
- User Survey
- Obsolete Records
- SMF Type 6
- SMF Type 24
- SMF Type 26
- SMF Type 30
- Others
- Recommendations
User Experiences
- CICS APAR
- GRS Contention
IBM Announcements
- High Performance FICON
- z10 BC Processors
Reeder Feedback
- HiperDispatch
z/OS 101
- SMF Exits
- Life of an Address Space
News
- New Function APARs
- HIPER APARs
- WSC News
- Publications
Cheryl’s List
- #127
2008 No. 4 (44 pages)
Management Summary
Focus: z10 User Experiences
- HiperDispatch
- z10 Performance Results
- z10 Compression
- References
SHARE – San Jose
- Important APARs
- SVL Visit
- Interesting Sessions
- z/OS 1.9 Performance
- Hot Flashes #20
- This SHARE
User Experiences
- DVIPA
- z/OS 1.8 CPU Changes
- z/OS 1.8 Telnet Sessions
- zIIPs and zAAPs
Reader Feedback
- SMF Logger
- SMF Parameters
News
- New Function APARs
- HIPER APARs
- WSC News
- Publications
Cheryl’s List
- #125, #126
2008 No. 3 (52 pages)
Management Summary
Focus: SMF Update – Part 2
- SMF Logger Update
- SMFPRMxx Parameters
- Recommendations
- References
HiperDispatch
- Background
- z10 Hardware Design
- z10 HiperDispatch
- How to Use HiperDispatch
- Performance
- References
What’s New?
- IBM Buys PSI
z/OS 101
- SMF Introduction
- MVS Commands
- SMFPRMxx
User Experiences
- z/OS 1.9 Experience
- WLM Dispatching
News
- Red Alerts
- New Function APARs
- HIPER APARs
- Interesting APARs
- WSC News
- Publications
Cheryl’s List
- #124
2008 No. 2 (58 pages)
Management Summary
z/OS Performance
- z/OS 1.8 – 1.9 Results
- Large Page Data Sets
- Large Memory
SMF Update – Part 1
- SMF Buffers
- SMF Survey
- SMF Intervals
- Neat Presentation
- SMF Logger
SHARE Sessions
- Important APARs
- Library Server
Cheryl’s Hot Flashes
- Survey
- Other Topics
z/OS 101
- Advice for z/OS Techies
- Linda Mooney’s Tips
- And More
z10 Processors
- LSPR Analysis
News
- Red Alerts
- New Function APARs
- Interesting APARs
- HIPER APARs
- WSC News
- Publications
Cheryl’s List
- #120, 121, 122, 123
2008 No. 1 (48 pages)
In This Issue
News
- CA News
- New Function APARs
- Interesting APARs
- WSC News
- On the Web
- Publications
Q & A
- Linux and z/VM
- DB2 Performance
- Advice for New z/OS Techies
z/OS Performance
- SoftCap Tool
- IBM Performance Tests
- z/OS 1.6 – 1.7 Results
- z/OS 1.7 – 1.8 Results
- z/OS 1.9 Results
zPCR Experiences – Part 2
- zIIP and zAAP Benefits
- zAAP Overhead
- zIIP Overhead
- Book Overhead
- Workload Selection
- Summary
IBM Announcements
- New z/OS Chip
Cheryl’s List
- #119