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IBM z/OS 2022 Software Prices

September 30, 2021cherylCheryl's List
If you've been working from home and haven't made it into the office, you might not have seen the August 24 snail mail from IBM announcing a price increase of 5% on MLC (Monthly License Charge) prices. We want to bring this up because many people are completing their budgeting process for 2022, and they...
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Free GSE UK Conference and IBM Techdocs Snafu

November 4, 2020cherylCheryl's List
Free GSE UK Conference Some of our favorite times have been at the GSE (Guide SHARE Europe) UK region conference. Due to Covid-19, they’ve gone to a no-charge Virtual Conference that is being held between November 2 and 12, 2020. They do ask that you donate to a charity, but that’s only fair. They expect...
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IBM Red Alert and Upcoming Webinar on Managing TFP

September 12, 2020cherylCheryl's List
IBM Red Alert We think this is important enough to let all of our subscribers know about. If you've downloaded HOLDDATA between 1:15AM ET on Sept 10 through 7:30PM ET on Sept 11, you should redo it, as shown below in IBM's recent Red Alert. Red Alerts: Red Alert / z/OS family - all hardware,...
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Cheapest z/OS Training Available!

August 2, 2020cherylCheryl's List
SHARE is Now Virtual (and Cheap!) Note: Temporarily paused due to technical difficulties! Will notify you of new schedule when it becomes available. For only $199 (SHARE members & faculty) or $399 (non-members) or free (students) you can virtually attend SHARE this month. We don't understand why everybody isn't taking advantage of this great training....
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Tuning Letter 2019 No. 3 Published

November 7, 2019cherylCheryl's List

Good news for all our Tuning Letter subscribers – the 131-page 2019 No. 3 issue of the Tuning Letter is now available on our Publications website.  This issue includes: IBM announced the z15 family of mainframe processors on September 12th, 2019.  On first glance, the announcement looked like a rehash of all the IT industry buzzwords du jour…

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SHARE in Pittsburgh

August 3, 2019cherylCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Frank Kyne, Pittsburgh, SHARE, software costs

The next SHARE conference will be held in the Pittsburgh Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Sunday, August 4th to Friday, August 9th. You can get more information about the conference here: https://event.share.org/. Cheryl and I will be presenting a double-session on the latest news about IBM’s container pricing initiatives (DevTest Containers and Tailored Fit Pricing), as well as…

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Red Alert for Time Change

October 29, 2017cherylCheryl's List

Red Alert for Time Change IBM has just released a new Red Alert relating to the time change, which is scheduled in the USA for November 5 and Europe this weekend:  2017.10.27 – Daylight savings time adjustment may not be reported correctly by Language Environment (LE) callable services if PTFS UI48771 / UI48801 / UI48802…

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IBM’s z14 and z/OS 2.3 Announcements

July 27, 2017cherylCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, CPU Chart, IBM, z/OS 2.3, z14

IBM’s New z14 By now you’ve all heard all the marketing hype about IBM’s newest mainframe, the z14. What we’d like to do is look at the announcement from the techie’s point of view. First, there is a lot of confusion over the difference between the z14 and ‘IBM Z’. This confusion is easy to…

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SHARE Presentations Added to Website

March 19, 2017cherylCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, EXECUforum, mainframe blog, mainframe blogs, mainframe conference, mainframe news, MLC Reduction, performance, SCRT, SCRTPro, SHARE, software costs, Watson & Walker, z/OS, z/OS news

We had a great week at the SHARE conference in San Jose.  Frank had 125 sessions that he decided he wanted to attend (he didn’t quite achieve that goal!).  We had a vendor session for our new SCRTPro service, presented two EXECUforum sessions in addition to our zRoadshow session on Friday (thanks to all those that…

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Newly Scheduled “Containing z/OS Software Costs” Class

February 8, 2017cherylCheryl's List

We’re happy to announce that we’ve scheduled a new Containing z/OS Software Costs class. This class will be held in Sarasota, Florida, on August 28-30, 2017. With IBM’s latest 4% increase in z/OS software, we’re sure that this class will help you contain that increase. This 3-day class discusses a multitude of ways to reduce…

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