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2020 Tuning Letters

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2020 No. 4 (123 pages)

Management Summary

User Experiences and Tips

  • IBM Withdraws CMP From Marketing
  • IBM Withdrawal From Marketing of z/OS-Related IPLA Products
  • IWS Workload Automation Programming Language Tip
  • SMF Fun With R
  • Really Fine Tuning
  • Unterse for Distributed Systems
  • COBOL V4.2 to V6 Migration TIps
  • Put Some Zip in SMP/E’s Steps
  • New WLM Health Check
  • Zowe and ZEBRA

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Potential Infrastructure CPU Reduction Opportunities in an Enterprise Consumption Environment

  • Opportunities With System-wide Benefits
  • Opportunities With Benefits for Many Address Spaces
  • References

Spring Clean Your Data Sets With DCOLLECT and a Little SMF

  • Non-VSAM Data Sets
  • References

News

  • Red Alerts
  • Recent APARs
  • News from IBM Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events / Conferences

Acknowledgements

Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

 

2020 No. 3 (140 pages)

Management Summary

User Experiences and Tips

  • Experiences With UNIX Version of DD DUMMY
  • How to Find SHARE Publications
  • Cheryl’s SHARE Favorites
  • Predicting RNI Changes
  • Health Checker and z/OS 2.3 Transport Class Changes
  • Breakthrough Improvement in z/OSMF Startup Times
  • New Home for CICS WLM Videos

z15 Sort Accelerator

  • What Is Z Sort?
  • Z Sort Performance Considerations
  • Z Sort Implementation Considerations
  • Prerequisites
  • References

What’s New in SMF?

  • What’s New in SMF in z/OS 2.3?
  • What’s New in SMF in z/OS 2.4
  • Summary Recommendations

Reporting on Tailored Fit Pricing Enterprise Consumption

  • Introduction
  • Tracking Your MSU Consumption – Top-level Views
  • Visibility Into Top CPU Consumers
  • Gaining Early Notification of CPU Increases
  • References

Watson & Walker Technical Support Services – A New Offering

System Recovery Boost Gets a Boost

  • System Recovery Boost Stage 2
  • System Recovery Boost Possible Futures
  • Prerequisites
  • References

News

  • Red Alerts
  • Recent APARs
  • News from Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events / Conferences

Acknowledgements

Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

 

2020 No. 2 (158 pages)

Management Summary

User Experiences and Tips

  • Honor Priority by Service Class
  • Experience with DFSMSdss Dump to Disk
  • Compuware zIIP Exploitation

z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and Navigator

  • What Are They?
  • What do the Correlator and the Navigator Do?
  • How to Setup the Correlator
  • Prerequisites
  • References

XCF Transportation Class Simplification

  • Background
  • Transport Class Changes in z/OS 2.4
  • Prerequisites
  • References

Learning From SMF – MQ Accounting

  • Generating MQ Accounting Data
  • Interpreting and Deriving Value from MQ Statistics Data
  • References

What’s New in SYS1.PARMLIB?

  • z/OS 2.4 Parmlib Enhancements

Best Practices for Hardware Acquisition – Part 2

  • During the Negotiation Phase

Watson & Walker Technical Support Services – A New Offering

News

  • Red Alerts
  • Recent APARs
  • News from Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • Events / Conferences

Acknowledgements

Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

 

2020 No. 1 (134 pages)

Management Summary

IBM’s TFP – Update

  • Current Status of TFP
  • Recent Changes to TFP Requirements
  • A Full Pricing Example
  • Continued Cautions

MLC Conversion to OTC

  • Introduction
  • What Are the Differences Between MLC and OTC?
  • What to Know If You Are Offered an MLC Conversion to OTC
  • What If You’re Already Running VUE?

Focus: IBM z15 T02

  • Introduction
  • z15 Summary
  • z15 T02 Highlights
  • New Functions
  • References

Understanding Open Source Support

Learning From SMF – MQ Statistics

  • Introduction
  • Brief Introduction to MQ and MQ SMF Data
  • Interpreting and Deriving Value from MQ Statistics Data
  • References

Important Messages Health Check 1.3

  • What is the Important Messages Health Check?
  • What’s New?

News

  • Red Alerts
  • Recent APARs
  • News from Techdocs
  • Social Media
  • Publications
  • IBM Redbooks Publications
  • Events / Conferences

Acknowledgements

Cheryl’s List Blog Posts

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