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z/OS Hot Topics issue 25 is now available!

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GA22-7501-21,
Issue 25

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #25 (PDF 3.41MB) August 2011 GA22-7501-21

Featured topic: z/OS: a smarter operating system for a Smarter Planet.

Hot Spotlight

Our Hot Spotlight section features Web articles (not included in the latest issue of the z/OS Hot Topics newsletter) that provide great information on a host of System z topics.

Previous z/OS Hot Topics and Hot Spotlight articles

GA22-7501-20		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #24 (PDF 12.5MB) January 2011 Featured topic: zEnterprise gets you where you are going.

GA22-7501-19		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #23 (PDF 10.6MB) August 2010 Featured topic: Face to Face with business resiliency and problem determination.


GA22-7501-18		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #22 (PDF 4.50MB) March 2010 Featured topic: Nothing gets past z/OS! Security and auditing See answers to the issue 22 crossword puzzle.

Web article 03/01/10		Driving home the mainframe memories: Forty-four years of disk-drive development (PDF 103KB) John Eells continues his mainframe retrospective with our third installment about the history of IBM disk drives.

Web article 03/01/10		Ask Mr. Catalog: Answers to common ICF catalog questions (PDF 99KB) Another in a set of questions and answers about catalogs from Stephen Branch, Mr. Catalog himself.

Web article 03/01/10		Mirror, mirror (on the site): Deployment scenarios for TPC-R on z/OS (PDF 212KB) Learn how to deploy TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R) in your z/OS enterprise by Nick Clayton.

Web article 03/01/10		Life begins at 40... Happy birthday, CICS (PDF 105KB) Celebrate 40 years of CICS with a birthday salute from David Reynolds and Nick Garrod.

Web article 10/20/09		Latch onto better contention resolution (PDF 142KB) Learn about how to handle latch contention in z/OS V1R11 with global resource serialization (GRS) from Chris Brooker, Nick Matsakis, and Steven Partlow.

GA22-7501-17		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #21 (PDF 4.28MB ) August 2009 Featured topic: Simplification

Web article 08/30/09		Enhance your I/O performance with IBM System z (PDF 136KB) Read about the latest enhancements to I/O performance including FICON I/O operations and the IBM System Storage DS8000 solid state drive (SSD) technology by Harry Yudenfriend.

GA22-7501-16		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #20 (PDF 5.94MB) February 2009 Featured topic: 10th Anniversary Special - Memories of a mainframe

GA22-7501-15		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #19 (PDF 6.05MB) August 2008 Featured topic: On to V1R10 - And a greener data center

Web article 10/03/08		z-the Difference: Sysplex availability (PDF 44KB) Read about how the System z sysplex makes all the difference when it comes to availability.

Web article 10/03/08		Please DO touch that dial: zFS performance tuning (PDF 68KB) Find out how the zSeries File System provides the best in performance tuning of zFS.
GA22-7501-14		z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #18 (PDF 4.22MB) February 2008 Featured topic: RAS to the Rescue - Stand-alone dump best practices

Hot Topics #17
GA22-7501-13

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #17 (PDF 4.10MB)
August 2007

Featured topic: Meet zIIP and zAAP IBM's specialty processors

Hot Topics #16
GA22-7501-12

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #16 (PDF 3.71MB)
February 2007

Featured topic: All things data

Hot Topics #15
GA22-7501-11

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #15 (PDF 3.19MB)
August 2006

Hot Topics #14
GA22-7501-10

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #14 (PDF 9.27MB)
February 2006

Featured topic: z/OS: Simply secure

History of the mainframe poster

History of the mainframe poster (PDF 0.32MB)
February 2006 bonus PDF

Hot Topics #13
GA22-7501-09

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #13 (PDF 2.28MB)
August 2005

Featured topic: An apple a day . . . keeps the PMRs away! An overview of IBM Health Checker for z/OS