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IBM Annual Software Price Increases

October 1, 2016frankCheryl's List

You may remember that back in August 2014 IBM announced that they were migrating to a strategy of annual price increases for their z Systems Monthly License Charge (MLC) software, and that the increase for each year (effective January 1) would be announced at least 90 days in advance. The objective of this strategy was…

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Upcoming DB2 Continuous Delivery Strategy Webinar

September 13, 2016frankCheryl's List

Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter will know that we had a large article about IBM’s Continuous Delivery strategy in the most recent issue (2016 No. 2).  You might think that this is a bit of a ho-hum topic, but that article stretched to nearly 20 pages.  And at the time we wrote that article,…

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JES2 CPU Increase in z/OS 2.2

August 18, 2016frankCheryl's List

For those of you that don’t follow IBMMAIN (Cheryl follows everything – I think the NSA follow Cheryl to reduce their own workload!), there has been some recent discussion about an issue in JES2 whereby it consumes 2-3 times as much CPU in z/OS 2.2 as in z/OS 2.1.  In an ideal world, you would…

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Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2016 No. 2 Published

August 18, 2016frankCheryl's List

We emailed Tuning Letter 2016 No. 2 to our subscribers on August 6. This issue covered IBM’s recent Continuous Delivery strategy, provided an introduction to Blockchain, introduced IBM’s Doc Buddy app for iPhone and Android that lets you look up most z/OS messages even if you don’t have access to the Internet, together with Brocade’s…

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Alain Maneville’s LPAR Design Tool Updated

July 25, 2016frankCheryl's List

Readers of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter will be familiar with Alain Maneville, from IBM France. Alain co-wrote an article about HiperDispatch for the Tuning Letter, and is also the author of the LPAR Design tool.  The LPAR Design tool allows you to enter your LPAR configuration and model the impact that changes in an LPAR’s…

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Nordic GSE Conference in Reykjavik

June 6, 2016frankCheryl's List

Cheryl and I just finished taking part in the 2.5-day Nordic GSE 2016 conference in Reykjavik.  We really enjoyed the conference.  Everyone made us feel so welcome, and it was great to have a chance to finally meet people that have subscribed to the Tuning Letter for many years.  The organization was flawless, and they…

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IBM Secure Electronic Delivery

May 24, 2016frankCheryl's List

On May 13, 2016, IBM Flash10863 was updated to inform users that all internet delivery of z/OS product and service orders must use a secured download method by May 22. A summary of the flash was provided on May 5 by Marna Walle in her SHARE blog, “Are you electronic delivery secure?”.  Essentially, you can…

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z Systems Technology Exploitation Survey Results

May 24, 2016frankCheryl's List

In our Cheryl’s List #190 (February 24), we sent a survey to our readers to determine how extensively some of the newer z/OS technologies were being accepted. The survey is still open if you’d like to take it or see the original questions – at www.surveymonkey.com/r/RJ57FBL. Thanks so much to the 220+ people who have…

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