Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 36 "Telum Like It Is"
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 35 "In search of EXCELence?"
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s New z/OS dependencies moved from Semeru 11 to 17 before November 2025 Manual of the Moment: MVS Extended Addressability Guide for learn...
Episode 34 "Homeward Bound"
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 34 "Homeward Bound" Mainframe - z/OSMF Software Management UUID What it is: ability to programmatically retrieve a unique value (UUID) whic...
Episode 33 "These Boots Were Made"
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 32 "Scott Free"
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 32 "Scott Free" What’s New Preview of z/OS 3.1 Mainframe - SMFLIMxx Parmlib Member IEFUSI exit replacement with a parmlib member, rel...
Episode 31 "Take it to the Macs"
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
Episode 30 "Choices Choices"
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 29 "Hello Trello"
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 28 "The Preview That We Do Anew"
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 27 "And Another Thing"
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 27 "And Another Thing" show notes. Long show note are here. Follow up Additional System Recovery Boost enhancements: Sysplex...
Episode 26 "Sounding Board"
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Episode 25 "Flit for Purpose"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 24 "Our Wurst Episode"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 23 "The Preview that We Do"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, V...
Episode 22 "Great App-spectations"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Episode 21 "Fits and Starts"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 20 "Two is One and One is None"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ar...
Episode 19 "You've lost that syncing feeling"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 18 "What we won't have in common anymore"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 remov...
Episode 17 "Two Good, Four Better"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 mor...
Episode 16 "Chapter and Worse"
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 16 "Chapter and Worse". The show is called this because our Topics topic is about adding chapter markers (and pict...
Episode 15 "Waits and Measures"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 15 "Waits and Measures". The show is called this because our Performance topic is about LPAR weights, and because ...
Episode 14 "In the Long Run"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 14 "In the Long Run". The show is called this because the episode ran much longer than usual, and it is of fitting...
Episode 13 "We'll Always Have Paris"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 13 "We'll Always Have Paris". The show is called this because both Marna and Martin reminisce about lovely times i...
Episode 12 "Baker's Dozen"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 12 "Baker's Dozen". The show is called "Baker's Dozen" because it is the thirteenth episode, after starting at Epi...
Episode 11 "XI-Ting"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 11 "XI-Ting". The show is called "XI-Ting" because, well, it is episode #11 and we had one shot at the Roman numer...
Episode 10 "234U"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 10 "234U". The show is called "234U" because: We are very happy that we can talk about z/OS V2.3 now that it's b...
Episode 9 "Back in Black"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 9 "Back in Black". The show is called "Back in Black" because: We've been away for a long time, traveling for Ma...
Episode 8 "Queue Me Up"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 8 "Queue Me Up". The show is called "Queue Me Up" because: Marna talks about moving up to higher z/OS releases.....
Episode 7 "We Were On a Break"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 7 "We Were On a Break". The show is called "We Were On a Break" because: It's been a very long time since we las...
Episode 6 "Expect the Unexpected"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 6 "Expect The Unexpected". The show is called "Expect The Unexpected" for two reasons: We really did...
Episode 5 "The Long Back from Munich"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 5 "The Long Road Back From Munich". The show is called "The Long Road Back From Munich" because we've both r...
Episode 4 "The Road to Munich"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 3 "Getting Better"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 3 "Getting Better". Follow Up Following up the Episode 1 "Topics" item on Markdown, Martin talked about Jo...
Episode 2 "Sound Affects"
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 2 “Sound Affects We had some follow up items. As you can see we do actually pay attention to feedback and ...
Episode 1 “A Luta Continua” (“The Struggle Continues”)
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 1 “A Luta Continua” (“The Struggle Continues”). Mainframe Our “Mainframe” topic is about the new...
Episode 0 “Sic Parvis Magna” (“Greatness From Small Beginnings”)
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 0 “Sic Parvis Magna” (“Greatness From Small Beginnings”). We’re structuring each podcast episode (...