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2008 Tuning Letters

Home Publications Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter Tables of Contents 2008 Tuning Letters

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


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