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2012 Tuning Letters

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2012 No. 6 (39 pages)
Management Summary
Exploiting z/OS – Part 2

  • Introduction
  • zIIPs & zAAPs
  • zFS
  • zHPF

What’s New?

  • IBM 5 in 5
  • z/OSMF Enhancements

z/OS 101 

  • zIIP Experiences

User Experiences

  • Java Compiler Improvements
  • Compiler Enhancements
  • Health Checker
  • Security & Integrity APARs

News

    • New Function APARs
    • SMF 
    • Information APARs
    • Miscellaneous APARs
    • ATS News
    • Publications 

2012 No. 5 (41 pages)
Management Summary
Note About zEC12 
Exploiting z/OS – Part 1

  • Introduction 
  • IBM Health Checker 
  • HyperPAV 
  • HiperDispatch 

Update on I/O Measurements

  • Introduction 
  • I/O Interrupt Delay Time 
  • zEC12 Enhancement 
  • I/O Response Time Review 
  • References 

z/OS 101

  • I/O Priority 

News

  • New Function APARs 
  • SMF APARs 
  • Information APARs 30 Miscellaneous APARs
  • ATS News 
  • Publications 

Cheryl’s List

    • #163

2012 No. 4 (52 pages)
Management Summary
Cheryl’s LAST Hot Flashes #28

  • Two-year Release
  • IBM Education Assistant
  • At This SHARE

Nuggets From SHARE

  • z/OSMF Enhancements
  • Important Sessions

Service Levels – Part 5

  • Other Types of SLAs

What’s New?

  • zEC12 Processors
  • Other Announcements

User Experiences

  • PARMLIB Recommendation
  • Training Courses

zEC12 Processors

  • zEC12 Models & Analysis
  • August 2012 LSPRs 

News

  • Red Alert
  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • Miscellaneous APARs
  • ATS News
  • Publications 

Cheryl’s List 

  •  #160 / #161 / #162

2012 No. 3 (42 pages)
Management Summary
z/OS 101

  • z/OS Dispatcher

User Experiences

  • IPCS Undocumented Functions
  • RSM Problem
  • Service Definition Coefficients
  • WLM Recommendations

Service Levels – Part 4 – CICS & IMS

  • Defining CICS
  • Measurements
  • CICS Considerations
  • Response Time Goals
  • Load
  • Availability
  • Quality
  • Setting SLOs
  • IMS

News

  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • HIPER APARs
  • ATS News
  • Publications 

Cheryl’s List 

    • #158 / #159

2012 No. 2 (57 pages)
Management Summary
Notes From SHARE

  • Hot Flashes #57
  • Highlights

User Experiences

  • CA Reclaim Experience
  • What’s an Appliance? 
  • Feedback on Part 2 – TSO

Service Levels – Part 3 – Batch

  • Turnaround Overview
  • Turnaround Challenges
  • Turnaround Options
  • Availability
  • Load
  • Quality

z/OS 101

  • Multi-Period Batch

What’s New?

  • New SHARE Website
  • New z/OS Version

News

  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • Miscellaneous APARs
  • ATS News
  • Publications 

Cheryl’s List 

    • #157

2012 No. 1 (41 pages)
Management Summary
Focus: WebSphere Message Broker

  • Introduction
  • WMB Overview
  • Runtime in z/OS
  • Measuring WMB From Outside 
  • Measuring WMB From Inside
  • SMF Type 117s
  • Using SMF Measurements

User Experiences

  • ROT for Page Fault Rate
  • WMB Response Time
  • WebSphere MQ Analysis
  • DB2 Analytics
  • Webcasts
  • CPU MF Update
  • CA Reclaim Update

Service Levels – Part 2 – TSO

  • Basic Measurements
  • Variances
  • Response Time Goals
  • Load
  • Setting TSO SLOs

News

  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • Miscellaneous APAR
  • ATS News
  • Publications 

Cheryl’s List 

  • #156


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