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2024 No. 1 (92 pages)

Management Summary

  • Cheryl’s Last SHARE
  • Ransomware? On z/OS? Surely not!
  • User Experiences and Tips
  • Introduction to Altair SLC
  • SMF’s Many I/O-related Fields
  • News You Can Use
  • “IntelliMagic, an IBM Company”

Cheryl’s Last SHARE Conference

Recovery at Scale – Part 3 (Ransomware)

  • Introduction
  • What Exactly Is a Ransomware Attack?
  • Stages of a Ransomware Attack
  • Initial Access
  • Post-Exploitation
  • Understand and Expand
  • Data Collection and Exfiltration
  • Ransomware Deployment
  • What To Do Now?
  • References
  • Summary

User Experiences and Tips

  • Synchronizing Your Type 23 and Type 7X SMF Records
  • Speaking of SMF Records and zEDC
  • Sending SMS Texts from z/OS
  • zPCR Tip

Introduction to Altair SLC

  • Introduction
  • Questions and Answers
  • References
  • Summary

Making Sense of the Many I/O Count Fields in SMF

  • Introduction
  • SMF 70 Fields
  • SMF 78 Fields
  • SMF 72 Field
  • SMF 74 Fields
  • SMF 42 Fields
  • References
  • Summary

News

  • IBM Z Hardware Alerts
  • Red Alerts
  • Preparing for z16
  • Upcoming Withdrawal from Marketing Dates
  • Preparing for z/OS 3.1
  • Recent APARs
  • z/OS Quarterly Continuous Delivery Announcements
  • New Function APARs Website
  • Using the Information in This Section
  • New Function APARs
  • News from IBM Techdocs
  • Conferences
  • GSE Nordic Region Conference
  • SHARE
  • IBM TechXchange 2024
  • GSE UK

Acknowledgments

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