Episode 4 "The Road to Munich"

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 option controls whether you want to allow use of the SETSMF command, different from the SET SMF command, without tying it anymore to the specification of PROMPT. Exploiting this function is as easy as adding AUTSETSMF to your SMFPRMxx for the next IPL!

Performance

Our "Performance" item was a discussion on another of Martin's "2016 Conference Season" presentations: "He Picks On CICS".

Topics

Following up the Episode 3 "Topics" item on iThoughts and Mind Mapping, Martin wrote up how to make a (colour-coded) legend in iThoughts The Legend on his blog.  

Blogs

Martin's latest blogs:

Om Podcasten

Martin Packer (Principal z Systems Investigator) and Marna Walle (z/OS Development) are two IBMers talking about whatever z/OS topics come to mind.  Often guest experts weigh in on current technologies.  This podcast will give you timely, interesting, and entertaining z/OS topics.  Each episode comprises a “Mainframe” item, a “Performance” item, and “Topics” which is anything Martin or Marna care to talk about, which might or might not be related to their jobs.  So it goes…