Sampling Techdocs - up to March 2013

It's been some months, but here I am again with an overview of interesting TechDocs documents I came across while browsing through the latest publications. If you're completely unfamiliar to Techdocs, here's an introduction to it.

• Cheat Sheet : IBM drives to storage systems cheat sheet
  It doesn't always have to be a long document to come in handy. This one-pager shows the currently offered drive types for current IBM storage systems.

• Technical Document : DS8000 System Storage: Device Reserves with HyperPAVs
  "The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate what can occur when device reserves are used with HyperPAV enabled". Or, why you can still have IOSQ time.

• White paper : Move Secondary PPRC box to different location with as little impact as possible to primary volumes
  Well, the title says it all. Interesting read with extra material with scripts, JCLs ...

• Presentation : TS7700 Introduction Presentation
  This is nothing more than a very good introduction to the TS7700 family and its functions.

• Presentation : CICS Transaction Server V5 Technical Overview, Upgrading to CICS Transaction Server V5 and CICS - What's in it for the Application Programmer
  Here's a couple of Share presentations on CICS TS V5 starting off with a technical introduction. The second one describes the upgrade scenario from CICS TS V4.2 to CICS TS V5 and the last one asks the question : "In today's environment with many application servers available, why would an application programmer choose to develop applications for CICS? How does CICS benefit the application programmer?" Take a look at the presentation for the answers.

• Presentation : z/OS Workload Manager: What Are you Thinking?
  "This session will review many of the common definition mistakes seen by IBM. The session will provide recommendations for finding these mistakes and provide alternatives for better performance, or avoiding potential problems".

Well that's it for now. And, as I always say : just check them out !