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  Hot Topics #21
  GA22-7501-17

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #21 (PDF 4.28MB)
August 2009

Featured topic: z/OS Simplification


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.

  

  Web article
11/10/09

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
11/10/09

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
10/20/09

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
10/20/09

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.


Previous z/OS Hot Topics and Hot Spotlight articles

  Web article
4/17/09

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.

  Hot Topics #20
  GA22-7501-16

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #20 (PDF 5.94MB)
February 2009

Featured topic: 10th Anniversary Special - Memories of a mainframe

  Hot Topics #19
  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.

  Hot Topics #18
  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

  Hot Topics #12
  GA22-7501-08

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #12 (PDF 2.45MB)
February 2005

Featured topic: Hidden treasures: Making the most of your 64-bit SVC dumps

  Hot Topics #11
  GA22-7501-07

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #11 (PDF 2.99MB)
August 2004

Featured topic: Infrastructure simplification

  Hot Topics #10
  GA22-7501-06

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #10 (PDF 2.02MB)
February 2004

Featured topic: z/OS download for dummies

  Hot Topics #9
  GA22-7501-05

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #9 (PDF 1.46MB)
August 2003

Featured topic: Tools

  Hot Topics #8
  GA22-7501-04

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #8 (PDF 1.02MB)
February 2003

Featured topic: Migrating to z/OS

  Hot Topics #7
  GA22-7501-03

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #7 (PDF 5.84MB)
August 2002

Featured topic: Security

  Hot Topics #6
  GA22-7501-02

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #6 (PDF 4.26MB)
February 2002

  Hot Topics #5
  GA22-7501-01

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #5 (PDF 1.60MB)
August 2001

  Hot Topics #4
  GA22-7501-00

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #4 (PDF 0.49MB)
February 2001



Previous OS/390 Hot Topics

  Hot Topics #4
  GA22-7501-00

OS/390 Hot Topics Newsletter #4 (PDF 0.21MB)
February 2001

  Hot Topics #4 supplement
  GA22-7501-00

OS/390 Hot Topics Newsletter #4 supplement
(PDF 0.77MB)
February 2001

  Hot Topics #3
  GA22-7431-02

OS/390 Hot Topics Newsletter #3 (PDF 2.47MB)
August 2000

  Hot Topics #2
  GA22-7431-01

OS/390 Hot Topics Newsletter #2 (PDF 0.58MB)
February 2000

  Hot Topics #1
  GA22-7431-00

OS/390 Hot Topics Newsletter #1 (PDF 0.42MB)
August 1999




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Errata

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Ask Mr. Catalog (141KB)

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Stop spinning your storage wheels (36KB)