Mainframe, Performance, Topics

Passing reference to Blondes Have More Fun – Or Do They?.

Question: What’s brown and sticky?

This post is about gleaning start and stop information from SMF – which, to some extent, is not a conventional purpose.

I’ve just had my first brush with SMF from z15’s System Recovery Boost (SRB).

A recent episode of the Mac Power Users Podcast was a round up of clipboard managers – on iOS and Mac OS.

This post follows on from Anatomy Of A Great iOS App.

For normal people making a presentation is as simple as opening PowerPoint and starting typing.

It’s “Sun Up” on Conference Season – and I have a new presentation.

When I examine Workload Manager for a customer a key aspect is goal setting.

This isn’t following on from Three Billboards?

You could consider presentations as advertising – either for what you’ve done or for what something can do.

I wrote How I Look At Virtual Storage in 2014.

This post follows on from my 2019 post A Slice Of PI.

This is one of those posts where I have to be careful about what I say – to not throw a customer under the bus with over-specificity.

This was a fun episode to make, not least because it featured as a guest Miroslava Barahona Rossi.

I wrote about Automation with my Raspberry 3B in Raspberry Pi As An Automation Platform.

(Originally posted 2 March, 2021.)

(First posted February 21, 2021) As I recall, the last time I wrote about SMF 70-1 records in detail was Engineering – Part Two – Non-Integer Weights Are A Thing.

(First posted 14 February, 2021) Recently I bought a touch screen and attached it to one of my older Raspberry Pi’s (a 3B).

It’s been quite a while since I last wrote about Coupling Facility performance.

This post follows on from A Note On Velocity from 2015.

As I said in Automating Microsoft Excel, I thought I might write some more about automating Excel.

So this is one of our longest episodes yet, but jam full of content which is very us.

Every so often I get to work with a SAP customer.

(This post is about automating Excel on Mac OS.

mdpre Markdown Preprocessor A few days ago I released md2pptx, a Markdown to Powerpoint converter on GitHub as an open source project.

It’s been a long time since I started writing md2pptx.

I just produced a new chart, which I think is worth sharing with you.

After a long hiatus, I’m back with a new screencast.

I previously wrote about SMT in Born With A Measuring Spoon In It’s Mouth in 2016 – before z14 was announced.

Back in May (2020) I published filterCSV, An Open Source Preprocessor For Mind Mapping Software.

In Episode 25 I said it had been a long time since we had recorded anything.

(This post follows on from Engineering – Part Two – Non-Integer Weights Are A Thing, rather than Engineering – Part Three – Whack A zIIP).

A few years ago I built a presentation on zIIP Capacity Planning.

Every year I try to write one new presentation.

(I’m grateful to Dougie Lawson for correcting a few errors in the original version of this.)

There have been a number of WLM Service Definition formatters over the years.

I have a number of ideas for things I want to open source, some directly related to the day job and some not.

If you want really good Db2 performance you follow the guidelines from Db2 experts.

I’ve been experimenting with invoking services on one machine from another.

Ten years ago in Channel Performance Reporting I talked about how our channel-related reporting had evolved.

With z/OS 2.4 you can now run Docker containers in zCX address spaces.

It’s been a long time since Marna and I recorded anything.

I’m sat in a nice coffee shop in Wallingford, relaxing after an interesting few weeks.

(Originally posted 2019-08-25.)

(Originally posted 2019-08-11.)

(Originally posted 2019-08-04.)

(Originally posted 2019-08-02.)

(Originally posted 2019-06-18.)

(Originally posted 2019-06-18.)