Discussion Groups

MICS-L Discussion Group – CA MICS discussion group – post questions, items of interest, knowledge.  (Disclaimer: Scott Barry of SBBWorks is the moderator of this group!)
MXG Discussion Group – Barry Merrill’s MXG software product discussion archives.
IBM-MAIN Newsgroup – IBM Mainframe Systems discussion group archives.
ISVCOSTS – IBM Software Asset Management discussion group.
SAS Software Discussion Forums – subject-specific discussion forums sponsored by SAS Institute.

Reading and Research

Enterprise Strategies Newsletters – web site covering technical and management computing topics.
Eric Loriaux’s S/390 Web Site – technical reference information for MVS, VM and VSE/ESA operating systems’ users.
IBM System z Literature – business and technical information and papers related to System z.
IBM’s z/OS Hot Topics – z/OS and OS/390 newsletter from IBM.
IBM Redbooks – current IBM Redbooks, Redpapers, Redpieces and documents in development.
IBM Processor and SRM Constants/Coefficients – reference for IBM processor version codes and SRM constants, Service Units per Second (SU/Sec) values.
Large Systems Performance Reference for IBM System z – technical reference for System z processor workload processing capacity for z/OS, z/VM and supported Linux configurations.
IBM’s zFavorites for zSeries – a cornucopia of IBM links for the z endowed.
Mainframezone.com - web portal relevant to IT technical and management professionals.  Find z/Journal and Mainframe Executive magazines at this site.
MVS Help – technical reference for MVS operating system users.
CMG’s MeasureIT homepage – Computer Measurement Group’s periodical on leading and popular technology topics and focus areas.
T-Rexxers home page – a CA-sponsored mainframers’ web portal.

Industry Organization/Association Links:

Computer Measurement Group – user group for the measurement and management of computer systems.
Gartner Group – monitors and reports on trends in the Information Systems industry.
ITFMA – IT Financial Management Association
SHARE – association of Enterprise Technology professionals.
Isham Research and Consultancy – IT industry analyst and services group.
Project Management Institute – resources to support project management initiatives and professionals.
IQPC – International Quality and Productivity Center for technology papers and conference topics.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – web portal for information technology professionals and students.
 

IT Industry Products and Services

CBT Tape – freeware productivity tools and utilities for IBM mainframe professionals. Check out the newly added Yahoo! Group cbt-tape for topic discussion.
CA

CA MICS Product Support Web Site – CA MICS product suite homepage.

CA SMF Director – automated SMF data management product.

CA JARS Resource Accounting – processes and maintains utilization metrics to track how your IT resources are being used.

CPExpert – software to automate the routine of computer performance evaluation.
Demand Technology Software’s Performance SeNTry or NTSMF – Windows server performance monitor software.
Enterprise Performance Strategies – IT systems performance consulting and training services.
HP’s Enterprise Computing Solutions – network and systems management solutions.
IBM

IBM System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) – Overview of features

IBM System z Literature – including guides and FAQs

IBM System z Software Pricing – overview, news and tools about IBM Software Pricing

IBM System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP) – overview of features

IBM zAAP Processor Considerations IBM WSC paper on zAAP processor for specialized mainframe workloads

IBM Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) for sub-capacity workload-based licensing and reporting

IBM Integrated Facility for Linux – IFL Product page

IBM z/VM – Product Page

IBM z/OS – Overview Page

IBM’s z/OS Home Page – one of IBM’s current mainframe operating system.

IBM’s RMF Home Page – information about IBM’s software for measuring z/OS  systems performance and capacity management.

IBM’s zSeries Processor Home Page – latest information about IBM’s mainframe-class computing environment.

IBM’s z/OS Unix System Services (previously OpenEdition/MVS) – IBM’s homepage for their z/OS mainframe Unix solution.

IBM’s Workload Manager Documents – current source for IBM documentation and discussion briefs on Workload Manager for z/OS environments.

IBM’s zSeries  LSPR reference – IBM’s Large Systems Performance reference information.
I/S Management Strategies – large systems’ capacity and performance management consulting, and LCS software for software pricing comparison methodologies.
Multi-Edit Lite for SAS – enhanced PC-based editor productivity resource for SAS coders.
OS/390 (and z/OS) Freeware – useful productivity tools developed by Lionel Dyck.
Performance Associates – hardware and systems performance consulting and software.
SAS

SAS Institute’s Activity Based Management (ABM)- framework to support Activity-Based Costing (ABC)

SAS Institute’s Business Intelligence (BI) solution – enterprise business information analysis and reporting

SAS IT Resource Manager and associated chargeback product – IT resource management software product

Vista TN3270 emulator – an economical, yet full-featured 3270 emulator at a very affordable price.
Watson & Walker

Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Newsletter

GoalTender – tool for management of WLM mode

BoxScore – tool for comparing CPU capacity and speed

WPS  (from World Programming WPC) – an alternative solution to SAS for management, processing, reporting and data analysis.