Serving up Solutions

Features | WebSphere Application Server for z/OS provides a high quality Java application server on the mainframe platform.

September 2008

A Beginner’s Guide to the REXX Programming Language on z/OS

Tips & Techniques | Reading and Writing Files in the REXX programming language on z/OS.

September 2008

The Dos and Don’ts of RACF Performance

Tips & Techniques | Improve your RACF installations with these tips on RACF administrator tuning options and systems programming tuning options.

May 2008

Monitor 64-Bit Storage Allocations

e-Newsletter Exclusive | My RXSTOR64 REXX program can be used to see the MEMLIMIT and MEMLIMIT source for every address space even if there is no 64-bit usage.

March 2008

Lessons Learned on Workload Manager

e-Newsletter Exclusive | When I started at this shop, I was gung ho about converting to transaction goals, but after looking at response time, I realized that it wouldn’t make sense to do the conversion. I have mentioned this on various discussion forums and have been pilloried regarding this unconventional approach.

January 2008

Role-Based Access Control for RACF

Tips & Techniques | RBAC is increasingly popular and enhances the efficiency of the security analysts and administrators.

May 2007

gdb (GNU debugger): The Basics

Tips & Techniques

September 2003

Cycle of Life

January 2003