Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast

Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast

Marna Walle

Episodes 37
Avg. Duration 36m
Activity Declining
Since Mar 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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Quarterly
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

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…

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Recent Episodes

S2E36 Episode 36 "Telum Like It Is"

Apr 08, 2025 38m

Episode 36 "Telum Like It Is"What’s Newz/OS dependencies moved from Semeru 17 to 21. EOS for Semeru 11 is 30 Nov 2025.Manual of the Moment: z/OS 3.1 Planning for Installation refresh, Software…

S2E35 Episode 35 "In search of EXCELence?"

Oct 28, 2024 47m

What’s New z/OS dependencies moved from Semeru 11 to 17 before November 2025 Manual of the Moment: MVS Extended Addressability Guide for learning about address spaces, data spaces, and…

S2E34 Episode 34 "Homeward Bound"

Dec 06, 2023 35m

Episode 34 "Homeward Bound" Mainframe - z/OSMF Software Management UUID What it is: ability to programmatically retrieve a unique value (UUID) which can then be used to find out installation…

S2E33 Episode 33 "These Boots Were Made"

Jul 05, 2023 40m

Episode 33 "These Boots Were Made" What’s New Preliminary z/OS 3.1 Upgrade materials Python 3.1.1 zIIP enablemment OA63406 and PH52983 Mainframe - Requires: z/OS V2.5 with PTFs, IBM z16 with…

S2E32 Episode 32 "Scott Free"

Apr 21, 2023 41m

Episode 32 "Scott Free" What’s New Preview of z/OS 3.1 Mainframe - SMFLIMxx Parmlib Member IEFUSI exit replacement with a parmlib member, related to storage and limits that can be specified.…

S2E31 Episode 31 "Take it to the Macs"

Jul 11, 2022 44m

Episode 31 "Take it to the Macs" show notes. This episode is about our After Show. (What is that?) Long show notes can be found here. What’s New New news for CustomPac removal date, it is July 10,…

S2E30 Episode 30 "Choices Choices"

Mar 16, 2022 35m

Short show notes - long show notes here We have a special guest joining us for the performance topic, Scott Ballentine. What’s New New news for CustomPac removal date, which has been extended…

S2E29 Episode 29 "Hello Trello"

Apr 20, 2021 59m

This episode is about how to be a better z/OS installation specialist, z/OS capture ratios, and a discussion on using Trello. We have a special guest joining us for the performance topic, Miroslava…

S2E28 Episode 28 "The Preview That We Do Anew"

Mar 02, 2021 49m

This episode is about several of the z/OS V2.5 new functions, which were recently announced, for both the Mainframe and Performance topics. Our Topics topic is on Martin's Open Source tool filterCSV.…

S2E27 Episode 27 "And Another Thing"

Nov 16, 2020 56m

Episode 27 "And Another Thing" show notes.  Long show note are here. Follow up Additional System Recovery Boost enhancements: Sysplex partitioning recovery: Boosts all surviving systems…

S2E26 Episode 26 "Sounding Board"

Jul 06, 2020 56m

Here are the show notes for Episode 26 "Sounding Board". The show is called this because it relates to our Topics topic, and because we recorded the episode partly in the Pougkeepsie recording studio…

S2E25 Episode 25 "Flit for Purpose"

Mar 22, 2020 41m

Here are the show notes for Episode 25 “Flit for Purpose”. The show is called this because it relates to our Topic, and also can be related to our Mainframe topic (as a pun for “Fit for…

S2E24 Episode 24 "Our Wurst Episode"

Mar 22, 2020 42m

Here are the show notes for Episode 24 “Our Wurst Episode”. The show is called this because we both attended the IBM TechU in Berlin, Germany, and our Topics topic is our trip report. Mainframe…

S2E23 Episode 23 "The Preview that We Do"

Mar 22, 2020 33m

Here are the show notes for Episode 23 “The Preview That We Do”. The show is called this because we talk about the newly previewed z/OS release, V2.4, in the Mainframe section. This is our 24th…

S2E22 Episode 22 "Great App-spectations"

Mar 22, 2020 42m

Here are the show notes for Episode 22 “Great App-spectations”. The show is called this because we talk about app expections in our Topics topic. Mainframe: PI99365 Two enhancements in z/OSMF…

S2E21 Episode 21 "Fits and Starts"

Mar 22, 2020 33m

Here are the show notes for Episode 21 “Fits and Starts”. The show is called this because we talk about fitness devices, and the Performance topic that had work submitted after a one minute…

S2E20 Episode 20 "Two is One and One is None"

Mar 22, 2020 36m

Here are the show notes for Episode 20 "Two Is One And One Is None". The show is called this because our Topic topic is trying to figure out how to archive family photos and videos.  Mainframe: zFS…

S2E19 Episode 19 "You've lost that syncing feeling"

Mar 22, 2020 26m

Here are the show notes for Episode 19 "You've lost that syncing feeling". The show is called this because our Topic topic is about losing the Xmarks URL synchronization tool.  Mainframe Our…

S2E18 Episode 18 "What we won't have in common anymore"

Mar 22, 2020 26m

Here are the show notes for Episode 18 "What we won't have in common anymore". The show is called this because our Mainframe topic is about some removals in common storage planned for the release…

S2E17 Episode 17 "Two Good, Four Better"

Mar 22, 2020 30m

Here are the show notes for Episode 17 "Two Good, Four Better?". The show is called this because our Performance topic is about aspects of whether more LPARs in the same CECs in a sysplex is better…

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