1. End of Service Dates IBM issued a very important announcement yesterday (to view #903-149 – go to http://www.ibm.com/news and pick Announcement letters at the left, then pick Announcements search at the left and enter the announcement number). They announced end-of-service (EOS) dates for OS/390 and z/OS R2 through R4, along with several other products. …
New Migration Offering Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 2003, No. 3 1. New Migration Offering We understand that IBM and IBM business partners are providing an exceptionally attractive migration offering to customers who are running on non-zSeries machines. The intention is to move customers from older systems to the current zSeries machines running z/OS. The offer…
Cheryl Watson’s zSeries CPU Chart Clarification on Cheryl’s List #77 1. Cheryl Watson’s zSeries CPU Chart Our May 2003 zSeries CPU Chart, which contains the latest zSeries processors, was sent out today to electronic subscribers. The chart will be mailed to print subscribers on June 9. If you’re a print subscriber and need the information…
IBM Announces New z990 Processors New Pricing Options z/OS Enhancements Enhancements to ESS Copy Services The Next Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, CPU Chart and BoxScore Release 1. IBM Announces New z990 Processors Yesterday, IBM announced a high-end extension to the zSeries processor family – the z990, available in 32 models. See announcement 103-142 at http://www.ibm.com/news. Depending…
1. Updated Quickstart Policy 2. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 2003, No. 2 1. Updated Quickstart Policy We’ve recently updated Cheryl Watson’s Quickstart Policy on our Web site. This downloadable service policy has been used in hundreds of installations as an easy way to move into WLM goal mode. There are still installations that haven’t made…
1. Why Are You Still Running OS/390 R10? 2. z/Architecture Terminology 3. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 2003, No. 1 Summary 4. TUNING Letter Updates 5. Updates to Our December 2002 CPU Chart 6. New z/OS RSU APAR 1. Why Are You Still Running OS/390 R10? We were absolutely shocked at SHARE to find that the…
1. SHARE Proceedings (almost) Available 2. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 2002, No. 6 Summary 3. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 2002, No. 6 – GRS Update 1. SHARE Proceedings (almost) Available SHARE has published the proceedings from the San Francisco August conference on their Web site at http://www.share.org. We don’t know what went wrong, but you…
1. We’re back from Japan 2. Please welcome Clark Kidd 3. TUNING Letter 2002, No. 6 4. Updated CPU Chart 5. SHARE in Dallas 6. Happy New Year! 1. We’re back from Japan We had such a great time touring the Japanese pottery towns that we extended our trip. We missed our home and work,…
1. New z/OS Migration Guide 2. New WLM APAR 3. New WLM Tool 4. Steve Samson’s New Book 5. Update to TUNING Letter 2002, No. 5 6. We’re still in Japan 1. New z/OS Migration Guide On September 27, IBM announced the availability of the OS/390 2.10 to z/OS 1.4 Migration manual, officially called z/OS…
1. We’re off to Japan! 2. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 2002, No. 5 Summary 3. Update to TUNING Letter 2002, No. 4 & Cheryl’s List #70 1. We’re off to Japan!! We’re about to leave (September 16th) for a two month trip to Japan. Tom’s got tickets for the fall sumo tournament and some sumi-e…
