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SCRT V25 Now Required For anyone that is involved in submitting Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) reports to IBM, it should be old news that, effective from November 1, IBM will only accept SCRT reports that were generated using SCRT V25 and Java. To be fair to IBM, they have been telling people for the last…
Cheryl Watson’s 2017 z Systems CPU Chart Available We just delivered the updated version of our IBM z Systems CPU Chart to our subscribers, with information about the capacity of the new z14 boxes from just about every perspective you could think of. Total MIPS, MIPS per engine, MIPS per MSU, High RNI MIPS, Low…
To coincide with the launch of our new Publications website, Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2017 No. 2 was published on July 24th. This and future issues will only be available on the new site, but we think that you will agree that this is a much more usable, and mobile-friendly, delivery mechanism than the single…
Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter will know that we normally create a DVD every year, containing the Tuning Letters and other Watson & Walker material since Cheryl’s first Tuning Letter was published in 1991. This year, to celebrate the universe-wide migration to ‘the cloud’, we are replacing the DVD with a new subscriber-only online…
