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2014 Tuning Letters

Home Publications Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter Tables of Contents 2014 Tuning Letters

2014 No. 4 (89 pages)
Management Summary
RLS-Managed Catalogs

  • A Little History Lesson
  • Why RLS for Catalogs?
  • Is This Right for You?
  • Implementation
  • Next Steps
  • References
  • Summary

Frank’s Viewpoint

  • Our Own Worst Enemies?
  • Mobile – This Week’s Fad?
  • Prod zEDC Users Wanted

Introduction to Mobile Workload Pricing

  • Why Mobile Workload Pricing
  • Another Layer of Complexity
  • Cost Control
  • Conclusion
  • References

User Experiences

  • XTIOT
  • Fine Tuning
  • zEDC Users

CFCC Enhancements

  • CF Level 15
  • CF Level 16
  • CF Level 17
  • CF Level 18
  • CF Level 19
  • CF Level 20
  • Summary
  • References

zPDT Overview

  • What IS zPDT?
  • Our Experiences With zPDT
  • Conclusions
  • References

News

  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • Sysplex/Availability APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • News From Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications

Acknowledgements
Cheryl’s List #179-180

2014 No. 3 (137 pages)
Management Summary
Frank’s Viewpoint

  • Techdocs
  • Changing Job Scene
  • Security Concerns

User Experiences

  • Interesting Finds in SMF
  • Page Data Set Usage
  • SMF Type 14/15 Buffers
  • AUTOR Update
  • PDSE Update

What’s New?

  • Preview of z/OS 2.2 & Futures
  • z/OSMF SPE2
  • z/OSMF Update

SMT and System z

  • Background
  • Introducing SMT
  • Evaluating SMT
  • SMT and System z Hardware
  • SMT and z/OS, z/VM, Linux on z
  • Conclusion
  • References

IBM System z Batch Network Analyzer

  • Recent zBNA Enhancements
  • Reference 
  • Summary

IBM Technical Disclosure Meeting
Capping Options – Part 3 

  • Introduction  
  • Capping-Related ISV Products 
  • BMC Software
  • zCost Management
  • zIT Consulting
  • Summary of Product Capabilities 
  • Related Products 
  • LPAR Capping Scenarios
  • Summary 

Warning Track Interrupts

  • What Issue Does This Address
  • Implementation 
  • Monitoring and Tuning
  • References 
  • Summary

Notes from SHARE in Pittsburgh 

  • ALS 
  • Suggested APARs and Docs
  • Not To Miss Sessions
  • Our Sessions

News

  • New Function APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • Parmlib APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information and DOC APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • News From Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events/Conferences

Acknowledgements
Cheryl’s List 

  • #177-178

2014 No. 2 (166 pages)
Management Summary
Frank’s Viewpoint

  • Reader Survey
  • Every Cloud Has a Black Lining
  • Mobile and z/OS
  • Deleting TECHDOC

User Experiences

  • LPAR Overhead vs Risk in LPARs With One CP
  • Standalone or Internal Coupling Facility
  • Impact of Flash Express on Memory Usage

Controlling ‘Large’ Pages

  • 1MB Fixed Pages
  • 2GB Fixed and 1MB Pageable
  • How z/OS Uses Real Memory
  • Preparing for Large Pages
  • Monitoring and Managin
  • Exploitation Prerequisites
  • Reference

What’s New?

  • Interesting Announcement
  • Hardware Announcement
  • z/OS 2.1 Enhancements
  • Statements of Direction
  • z/OSMF Enhancements

Problem Management Tools

  • What To Do First
  • Opening a PMR
  • The Life of a PMR
  • Additional IBM Support

Capping Options – Part 2

  • Quick Intro to Soft Capping
  • Defined Capacity
  • Capacity Groups
  • Absolute Capping
  • Capacity Provisioning Manager
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Helpful Tool

zEDC

  • Compression Functions
  • Comparative Performance
  • Which Products Exploit zEDC
  • zEDC Setup
  • Managing zEDC
  • Monitoring zEDC
  • References

Coupling Thin Interrupts – Part 2

  • What Are Thin Interrupts?
  • A Little Background
  • Coupling Thin Interrupts & CFs
  • Prerequisites
  • Implementation
  • Summary
  • Reference

News

  • New Function APARs
  • Performance APARs
  • Parmlib APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • Information APARs
  • Red Alerts
  • News From Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events/Conferences

Acknowledgements
Cheryl’s List 

    • #172-176

2014 No. 1 (110 pages)
Management Summary
Welcome Frank Kyne
Parmlib Updates z/OS 2.1 – Part 2

  • IGDSMSxx, IGGCATxx
  • IKJTSOxx, IOEPRMxx
  • IQPPRMxx, ISFPRMxx
  • IXGCNFxx, JES2PARM
  • LOADxx, SCHEDxx
  • SMFPRMxx, TSOKEY00

Parmlib Updates for z/OS 1.13

  • COUPLExx, IOEPRMxx, 
  • IGDSMSxx, PROGxx

Parmlib Updates in Service

  • IGDSMSxx, BPXPRMxx
  • IECIOSxx

Coupling Thin Interrupts

  • z/OS Exploitation
  • Enabling in z/OS

New Health Checks
Notes from SHARE

  • Suggested APARs
  • Favorite Sessions

Mainframe’s 50th Anniversary
System z Capping Options

  • Introduction
  • WLM Resource Groups
  • Varying CPs and Weights
  • Initial Capping
  • Intelligent Resource Director

What’s New?

  • DFSMS and zEDC

User Experiences

  • MAXEVENTINTRECS Parm
  • RLS-managed Catalogs

Frank’s Viewpoint

  • Smarter Defaults? 
  • Rolling Back New Functions
  • A z/OSMF Convert
  • Evening News?
  • Let’s Talk Scale

News

  • New Function APARs
  • SMF APARs
  • News from Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications

Acknowledgements
Cheryl’s List 

  • #170, 171


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