Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast

Here are the show notes for Episode 11 "XI-Ting". The show is called "XI-Ting" because, well, it is episode #11 and we had one shot at the Roman numeral to use and took it.  Mainframe Our "Mainframe" topic was Marna's experience in trying out the z/OSMF Workflow Editor. The z/OSMF Workflow Editor is a new function in z/OSMF to create your own Workflow, or change an existing Workflow. The Work...

Here are the show notes for Episode 10 "234U". The show is called "234U" because: We are very happy that we can talk about z/OS V2.3 now that it's been previewed on February 21, 2017. We liked the consecutiveness 2-3-4, and U added works nicely. Mainframe Our "Mainframe" topic was a highlight of some of the newly previewed z/OS V2.3 enhancements! We will surely talk a lot about z/OS V2.3 in podcas...

Here are the show notes for Episode 9 "Back in Black". The show is called "Back in Black" because: We've been away for a long time, traveling for Martin and on vacation for Marna. A vague reference to a BBC tv show about British fantasy author, Terry Pratchett Continuous Delivery Follow-up Announcements January 10, 2017 IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.3 is further enhanced with the contin...

Here are the show notes for Episode 8 "Queue Me Up". The show is called "Queue Me Up" because: Marna talks about moving up to higher z/OS releases...or releases "in the queue". Martin talks about the Coupling Facility list structures...or "queues". We had some follow up: IBM Doc Buddy - available for iOS and Android . The latest iOS level is currently 1.1.1. The latest Android level is currently 1...

Here are the show notes for Episode 7 "We Were On a Break". The show is called "We Were On a Break" because: It's been a very long time since we last recorded an episode. You should read nothing into other than our schedules and, in particular, Martin's long holiday put paid to recording for a while. But now we're back... We had one piece of follow up: IBM Doc Buddy - available for iOS and Android...

Here are the show notes for Episode 6 "Expect The Unexpected".  The show is called "Expect The Unexpected" for two reasons:  We really didn't expect to be recording an episode in this timeframe. The Performance topic lends itself to such a title. We had one piece of follow up:   IBM zEvent has been updated to 3.0.0 ("The Cat") on both Android and iOS . It has enhancements in lots of...

Here are the show notes for Episode 5 "The Long Road Back From Munich".  The show is called "The Long Road Back From Munich" because we've both returned from a successful z Systems conference 2016 IBM z Systems Technical University, 13 - 17 June, Munich, Germany .  Mainframe Our "Mainframe" topic was Marna's conference observations: IBM HTTP Server Powered by Apache : it seemed about 30-...

Here are the show notes for Episode 4 "The Road To Munich".   The show is called "The Road To Munich" partly in homage to the Road To... movies and partly because we're preparing for the 2016 IBM z Systems Technical University, 13 - 17 June, Munich, Germany .  Mainframe Our "Mainframe" topic was on a small z/OS V2.1 enhancement that few seem to be using: SMFPRMxx's AUTHSETSMF . This new...

Here are the show notes for Episode 3 "Getting Better".  Follow Up Following up the Episode 1 "Topics" item on Markdown, Martin talked about John Gruber's Daring Fireball Dingus page which lets you paste in Markdown and see the HTML generated from it (and how the HTML is rendered). Also following up on an Episode 1 item, but this time the "Mainframe" item, Marna talked about her personal prob...

Here are the show notes for Episode 2 “Sound Affects We had some follow up items.  As you can see we do actually pay attention to feedback and follow it up when we can. So keep sending it in.  Marna talked about the new SDSF panels and their commands’ responses being cut off. Use ULOG to see the whole response. BTW - for commands in z/OSMF there is a box for the entire command response y...

Here are the show notes for Episode 1 “A Luta Continua” (“The Struggle Continues”).  Mainframe Our “Mainframe” topic is about the new z/OS V2.2 ISPF 3.17 Mount Table enhancement. To try it out on z/OS V2.2: ISPF 3.17, then File_Systems pull down, then the new options are #1 or #2. Type “x” for toggling between expanding and contracting. Use the Help pulldown for more commands available. ...

Here are the show notes for Episode 0 “Sic Parvis Magna” (“Greatness From Small Beginnings”).  We’re structuring each podcast episode (loosely) in three parts:  Mainframe Performance Topics We’ll post useful links and supplementary information in each episode’s show notes.  Other things we discussed were: And if you think Naughty Dog made up “sic parvis magna” see here .  Mainf...