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
Watson & Walker Technical Support Services
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
- Blog Entries