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Technical |
Five New z/OS Technologies We Can No Longer Ignore
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2024 | My Five Best PC Tools for z/OS
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2024 |
Modernization Trends and Insights from a Mainframe Expert
CPT Global, Nov 2023 | How I Process SMF Records with Excel
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2024 |
Six Defining Characteristics of z/OS and Mainframe
TechChannel, Jul 2023 | Deciphering z/OS Messages
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2024 |
Eight Ways to Make z/OS Administration Easier
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2023 | Is Blocksize Still a Thing for Sequential Datasets?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov/Dec 2023 |
What Can We Get from IDEs?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2022 | Five I/O Avoidance Features That Every Site Should Use
LongEx Quarterly, Nov/Dec 2023 |
Websphere Application Server - Now An Essential Part of z/OS
Planet Mainframe, Apr 2021 | Ten Things I Can Find Out From SMF30
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2023 |
Sysplex For Resilience: More Than Just Systems
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2020 | Five Issues With SMF30
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2023 |
Disaster Recovery in Depth: More than Offsite Recovery
LongEx Quarterly, May 2019 | Three Letters To Help Problem Diagnosis
LongEx Quarterly, May 2023 |
Open Source and Mainframes: A Good Idea, or Craziness?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2019 | SRM vs WLM: They Really Aren't the Same
LongEx Quarterly, May 2023 |
A Beginners Guide to Exits
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2018 | Six z/OS Features to Reduce a Systems Programmers Workload
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2023 |
What is EAL, And Is It Any Use?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2018 | My RMF Monitor III Top Five
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2022 |
A Different Set of Goalposts for Application MQ Performance
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2018 | Performance Tuning vs CPU Reduction
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2022 |
Can DevOps Work With The Mainframe?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2017 | IDEs: Some Assembly Required
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2022 |
Why I Like DevOps: A Hypothetical
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2017 | How To Show a 10,000 Foot View Of z/OS Performance
LongEx Quarterly, May 2022 |
Capping: Its Really Not That Bad
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2017 | Ten Things I See With WLM Configurations: And Really Don't Like
LongEx Quarterly, May 2022 |
Where Do You Find Mainframe Information?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2017 | Does the Latest Enterprise COBOL Compiler Eliminate Coding Performance Errors?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2022 |
How to Measure Reliability
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2017 | How to Use TSO Transmit to Package Mainframe Datasets
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2022 |
How Much Do Abends Really Cost?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2016 | Hashes and How to Create Them on z/OS
TechChannel, Jan 2022 |
Who Still Makes Mainframe Disk?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2016 | Why You Should Use Eyecatchers
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2021 |
The Best Mainframe DASD and Dataset Innovations
LongEx Quarterly, May 2016 | Maintaining Code That Sucks
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2021 |
Eight Ways Chargeback Can Save Your Mainframe Costs
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2016 | 5 Quick Ways to Speed up Your z/OS Batch Without Application Changes
TechChannel, Oct 2021 |
How Fast is Your Mainframe?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2015 | Random and "Almost Random" Numbers on z/OS
TechChannel, Sep 2021 |
A Five-Minute Guide to Monitors
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2015 | Diagnosing C Storage Overlays on z/OS
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2021 |
How Good is Your Existing Code?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2015 | Using HEAPZONES to Fix C Storage Overlays on z/OS
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2021 |
Is Five Nines Availability Possible, or Even Needed?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2015 | The Problem With z/OS Strings and C
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2021 |
The Logistics of Output: Report and Output Management Products
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2014 | How to Use JSON in Your z/OS Program
TechChannel, Jul 2021 |
What to Do With AFP
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2014 | Node.js on z/OS: How Real Is It?
TechChannel, May 2021 |
Why Are You Tuning?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2014 | Batching CICS Syncpoints for Performance
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2021 |
Program Objects - Replacing Load Modules At Your Site Soon
LongEx Quarterly, May 2014 | Refresher: Syncpoints and Units of Work
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2021 |
What TADz Can and Cannot Do
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2014 | Adventures with Resilience: Looking at Resilience As An External Consultant
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2020 |
Software Products to Help Your Batch
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2013 | Let's Just Agree to Stop All Space Errors
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2020 |
Do You Still Need Assembler Skills?
LongEx Quarterly, August 2013 | Accessing Open VSAM: Is It Ever a Good Idea?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2020 |
How Many Software Products Are There?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2013 | Is It Crazy To Read a VSAM Dataset Open in CICS?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2020 |
Savings Options for Usage Based Mainframe Costs
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2013 | Do Your CICS/VSAM Datasets Have Full Read Integrity?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2020 |
Mainframe Software Pricing
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2012 | Get More Resilience From a CICSPlex
LongEx Quarterly, May 2020 |
What To Do When You Lose the Source
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2012 | Converting CICS/VSAM to RLS: Five Issues We Found
LongEx Quarterly, May 2020 |
Five Minute Guide to Omegamon
LongEx Quarterly, May 2012 | In-Order Delivery, MQ and Queue Sharing Groups
LongEx Quarterly, May 2020 |
How Has IBM Simplified the Mainframe?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2012 | Implementing CICS/VSAM RLS: How We Did It
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2020 |
How to Get Rid of that Mainframe Software Product
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2011 | Comparing CICS/VSAM Performance With and Without RLS
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2020 |
The Second Hand Mainframe Market
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2011 | Why Convert CICS/VSAM to CICS/Db2?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2019 |
Exactly How Big Is Your Mainframe?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2011 | Finding Unused CICS/VSAM Datasets: Maybe Not That Simple
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2019 |
Goodbye 3745: The End of the Communications Controller?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2011 | VSAM: Why Don't We Use Half-Track CI Sizes?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2019 |
So How Are the Other Mainframes Doing?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2010 | Load Library Performance
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2019 |
Mainframes: Where Are They Now?
ACS InformationAge, Oct-Dec 2010 (PDF 600k) | RECFM=U: What Exactly Is It?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2019 |
Is This The End of Tape?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2010 | Monitoring and Tuning Load Modules and Libraries
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2019 |
Nine Ways to Get More From an Outsourcing Arrangement
LongEx Quarterly, May 2010 | Improving REXX Performance
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2019 |
Mainframe Products for Monitoring Composite Applications
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2010 | Exits: My Five Best Practices
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2018 |
Is It Too Hard to Audit z/OS?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2009 | Do We Really Need Systems Automation Software?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2018 |
Oracle Database Abandons z/OS
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2009 | Do We Really Need Automated Job Scheduling Software?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2018 |
Become a Mainframe Rembrandt
LongEx Quarterly, May 2009 | Mainframe Security From the Inside
LongEx Quarterly, May 2018 |
Ten Ways to Reduce Your Mainframe Software Licensing Costs
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2009 | Practical Uses for MQ SMF Data
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2018 |
What Exactly is SOA?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2008 | Is Continuous Delivery a Good Idea?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2018 |
| How to Implement Capping Without Pain
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2017 |
| Converting CPU seconds to MSUs and MIPS
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2017 |
| The Right Documentation
LongEx Quarterly, May 2017 |
| Can You Trust What You Read?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2017 |
| Five Things That Stopped or Crashed z/OS
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2017 |
| Ten Ways IPCS Can Be Used As a Monitor
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2017 |
| DASD Mirroring Part 3: Putting a Solution Together
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2016 |
| Disk Mirroring Part 2: Performance
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2016 |
| Disk Mirroring Part 1: A Review of XRC, PPRC and Friends
LongEx Quarterly, May 2016 |
| SMT and Other Things to Hurt Your Chargeback
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2016 |
| How to Use RNI
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2015 |
| Monitoring by Sampling
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2015 |
| How to Check If You Have The Right Source
LongEx Quarterly, May 2015 |
| Five z/OS Problem Prevention and Analysis Tools You Probably Are Not Using
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2015 |
| Do You Still Need PSF?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2014 |
| Limiting the Damage from Loops and Spikes
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2014 |
| Tracking Software and Module Usage Without TADz
LongEx Quarterly, May 2014 |
| Find Out More About Your Load Module
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2014 |
| Why Your Batch is Running Slow
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2013 |
| Eight Ways to Improve Your Assembler Programs
LongEx Quarterly, August 2013 |
| Learning Assembler: Where Do You Start?
LongEx Quarterly, August 2013 |
| How to Find the Software You Have
LongEx Quarterly, May 2013 |
| Working With Large Quantities of SMF Records
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2013 |
| Using SMF Records to Identify High CPU Consumers
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2012 |
| Assembler Disassemblers
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2012 |
| z/OS Tracing for Beginners
LongEx Quarterly, May 2012 |
| Lost in Translation Part 3: Converting Between Codepages
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2012 |
| Lost in Translation Part 2: ASCII and EBCDIC on z/OS
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2011 |
| Lost in Translation Part 1: EBCDIC Code Pages
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2011 |
| How to Get System Information Without Being a Systems Programmer
LongEx Quarterly, May 2011 |
| Squeeze Information From a Catalog
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2011 |
| Pimp Up z/OS With USS for Free
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2010 |
| Understanding Reentrant Programming
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2010 |
| Cross Memory Communications for Beginners
LongEx Quarterly, May 2010 |
| The Challenges Monitoring Composite Applications
CMG MeasureIT, Feb 2010 (PDF 255k) |
| The Basics about ITM
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2010 |
| A Sample z/OS Disaster Recovery Plan
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2009 |
| How to Call HLASM from Java
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2009 |
| Why You Need a One-Pack System
LongEx Quarterly, May 2009 |
| Control Blocks for Beginners Pt 2
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2009 |
| Control Blocks for Beginners Pt 1
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2008 |
| Crossing the Border - Programming between native z/OS and z/OS UNIX
IBM DeveloperWorks, Sep 2008 (PDF 58k) |
| Opinion |
Presentations and White Papers |
Tips to Create Better Graphs
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2024 | Five z/OS Resilience Features My Clients Aren't Using
Perth Z Community, Nov 2021 |
A Beginners Guide to Creating Messages
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2024 | The Problems with RLS:
A User Experience Implementing VSAM RLS and CICS
Share Virtual, Feb 2021 |
Two Opposing Strategies for Systems Administration: Do Nothing or Do Something
LongEx Quarterly, Nov/Dec 2023 | CICSPlex From Scratch: A User Experience Moving CICS Applications to CICSPlex
Share Fort Worth, Feb 2020 |
Why All Mainframe Technical Groups Need SMF
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2023 | Using Compuware Strobe to Save CPU: 4 Real-life Cases from the Files of CPT Global (with Compuware and CPT Global)
Compuware Webinar, Dec 2016 |
Ten Reasons Why I'm a z/OS Geek
LongEx Quarterly, May 2023 | You Can't Win Them All: CPU Reduction Ideas That Did and Didn't Work
Share Atlanta, Aug 2016 |
What Old Skills Don't z/OS Systems Programmer Need to Know?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2023 | What Does a Mainframe Consultant Do?
ECC Poughkeepsie, Jun 2016 |
Why Every Site Needs a Few Good Dashboards
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2022 | When Should You Hire a Mainframe Systems Consultant?
Longpela Expertise Whitepaper, Sep 2009 |
Everyone Should Use an IDE: Everyone
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2022 | |
Do We Need to Care About WLM?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2022 | |
My Reality Check: I Really Dont Know Everything
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2022 | |
Does Too Much Change Management Actually Reduce Resilience?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2021 | |
What Is Mainframe Modernisation, And Should We Care?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2021 | |
Should Mainframe Modernisation Include COBOL Retirement?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2021 | |
Five Ways I'd Modernise My Mainframe
LongEx Quarterly, May 2021 | |
We Can't Have Resilience Without Attitude, Ability and Assets
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2021 | |
Can Patrolling of Source Code Improve Resilience?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2020 | |
Reliability is in the Details
LongEx Quarterly, May 2019 | |
Commitment Issues, And How They Risk Your Legacy Applications
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2019 | |
Six Ways to Keep Your Mainframe Staff
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2019 | |
Should We Package All Exits Using SMP/E?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2018 | |
Is Your Message Automation Current? (Probably not)
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2018 | |
No, Your z/OS Isn't That Secure
LongEx Quarterly, May 2018 | |
Do We Need All These DevOps Tools?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2017 | |
Reliability and Resilience: Only Important After Outages?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2016 | |
Why You Should Let Your ML1 Go
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2016 | |
Yep, DASD Performance is Still Important
LongEx Quarterly, May 2016 | |
Can Chargeback Invoices Help Win Over Your Business Units?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2016 | |
A Reason To Love z/OS: Recording
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2015 | |
How Much Monitoring Do You Need?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2015 | |
Why Don't We Use Source Metrics?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2015 | |
Seven Best Practices for z/OS Availability
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2015 | |
Stop Firefighting and Start Tuning
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2014 | |
Are IBM Mainframes Really Backward Compatible?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2014 | |
Better Manage Your Load Modules
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2014 | |
Why I Love Batch
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2013 | |
The End of Mainframe-Only Software
LongEx Quarterly, May 2013 | |
Do We Really Need to Compress Datasets?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2013 | |
Why Get an Expert to Look at Your Bill?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2012 | |
Who Needs Quality Staff?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2012 | |
Why You Don't Need a z/OS Monitor
LongEx Quarterly, May 2012 | |
Does the z/OS Management Facility Match the Hype?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2012 | |
A Consulting Example: Reducing CPU Consumption
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2011 | |
The Case for a Fresh Technical Opinion
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2011 | |
Is there a Mainframe Skills Shortage?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2011 | |
Why Do We Keep Our Software Up to Date?
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2011 | |
Who Bridges the Gap?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2010 | |
How to Move Off the Mainframe: A Mainframe Perspective
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2010 | |
Mentoring as a Technical Training Solution
LongEx Quarterly, Feb 2010 | |
How Much Do Architects Need to Know About Mainframes?
LongEx Quarterly, Nov 2009 | |
z/OS vs UNIX - Which Comes Out the Winner?
LongEx Quarterly, Aug 2009 | |
Why Can't Vendors Write in English?
LongEx Quarterly, May 2009 | |
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