VM/ESA Performance Reports

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VM/ESA Release Short Name Download In HTML
VM/ESA Version 2 Release 4.0 ESA240 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Version 2 Release 3.0 ESA230 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Version 2 Release 2.0 ESA220 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Version 2 Release 1.0 ESA210 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Release 2.2 ESA122 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Release 2.1 ESA121 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Release 2.0 ESA120 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Release 1.1 ESA111 PDF n/a
VM/ESA Release 1.0 ESA110 PDF n/a

VM/ESA Performance Reports, by Topic

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New Functions
Topic Reports
Coordinated Resource Recovery ESA110
VM Data Spaces (Use by SFS) ESA111
3990-3 DASD Fast Write Support ESA111
CMS Pipelines ESA111
Inter-System Facility for Communication (ISFC) ESA111 ESA122
ECKD Support ESA111
FBA DASD Support ESA120
CP Configurability ESA120
DIAGNOSE Code X'250' ESA120
Extended CMS File System Interfaces ESA120
Virtual Disk in Storage ESA121
Load Wait State PSW Improvements ESA121
REXX SAA Level 2 Architecture ESA121
Minidisk Cache Enhancements ESA122
Share Capping and Proportional Distribution ESA122
SPXTAPE Command ESA122
Improved CMS Block Allocation for Virtual Disk In Storage ESA122
OpenExtensions ESA210
OpenExtensions DCE ESA210
Open Systems Adapter Support ESA210
Removal of VMCF Master Processor Dependency ESA220
Record Level Minidisk Cache ESA230
MQSeries Client Support ESA230
fork() ESA230
Reusable Server Kernel ESA240

Special Environments
Topic Reports
Capacity of a Single VTAM/VSCS Virtual Machine ESA110
Effect of Real/Expanded Storage size ESA111
Effect of Virtual Machine Size ESA111
Effect of Virtual Machine Mode (370, XA, XC) ESA110 ESA111 ESA210
Minidisk to SFS ESA110 ESA111 ESA120
APPC/VM ESA110
APPC/VM VTAM Support (AVS) ESA110
LPAR Performance ESA120
RACF 1.9 ESA120
VSE Guests using Shared DASD ESA120
VMSES/E ESA120 ESA121 ESA122 ESA210
VSE/ESA Guest Performance ESA121
3745 Comparison to CTCA ESA121
ISFC ESA122
Processor-Constrained Environment ESA122
Comparison of VM/VTAM 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 ESA122
RAMAC Array Subsystem ESA210
370 Accommodation ESA210
RSCS 3.2 ESA210
DIRMAINT 1.5 ESA210
Storage-Constrained VSE Guest using MDC ESA210
VTAM 4.2.0 ESA210
OfficeVision 1.3.0 ESA220
Configuration of Storage as Central or Expanded ESA220
Migration to VisualGen from CSP ESA220
OfficeVision 1.4.0 ESA230
LIMITHARD Share Capping Option ESA240
Tivoli ADSM Version 3 ESA240

TCP/IP
Topic Reports
TCP/IP 2.4 (RPC) ESA220
TCP/IP 310 (Telnet, FTP) ESA230
Reduced TCP/IP Real Storage Requirements ESA230
Improved SMTP Server Capacity ESA230
Migration from VTAM to Telnet ESA230
TCP/IP 320 (Telnet, FTP, NFS) ESA240

Tuning Studies
Topic Reports
Recommended 9221 Tuning ESA111
GCS IPOLL Option ESA111
Using Expanded Storage for MDC on a 9121 ESA111
SET RESERVE ESA111
OfficeVision MSGFLAGS Setting ESA111
CMS File Cache for SFS ESA120
I/O Assist for Guests ESA120
Adjusting the Minidisk File Cache Size ESA121
VM/ESA Rexx Performance Guidelines ESA121
Minidisk Cache Tuning: Restricting the Arbiter ESA121 ESA122
Effect of IABIAS on Response Time ESA122
GCS TSLICE Option ESA210
Configuration of Storage as Central or Expanded ESA220

Processor Capacity
Topic Reports
3090-600J ESA110
9121-480 ESA111
9021-720 ESA111
9021-900 ESA120
9121-742 ESA121
9021-941 ESA122
PC Server 500 ESA210
9672-R53 ESA220
PC Server 520 and RS/6000 591 ESA220

Additional Studies
Topic Reports
Greater than 16M of Real Storage (370 Feature) ESA110
CMS Instruction Trace Data ESA110
Measurement Variability ESA120 ESA121
High Level Assembler Evaluation ESA121
CP Monitor Overhead ESA121
FS7F to FS8F Workload Comparison ESA122