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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