In this issue, I’ll cover the following: IBM Announcement In the last TUNING Letter, I suggested that people look at WSC Flash W98044, which recommends that multi-system customers be on OS/390 R2.5 by January 1, 2000. At SHARE this week, most of the speakers at the IBM OS/390 sessions are stressing the point that multi-system…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 6 Summary 2. Important APARs 3. Good Web Site 4. SHARE in SF 1. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 6 The 1998, No. 6 TUNING Letter issue was mailed on February 11, 1999. The Management Issues section is included below…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. My Heart Attack 2. We’re Moving 1. My Heart Attack If you were a subscriber to Cheryl’s List on December 10, you are aware that we were robbed at gunpoint in our home. See http://www.watsonwalker.com/clist17.html. At the time I wrote Cheryl’s List #17 we were in the process…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Some Excitement in Our Life 2. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 5 Summary 3. CPU Chart Mailed 1. Some Excitement in Our Life First of all, we’ll be moving to different offices here in Sarasota sometime in January. As soon as we finalize our schedule, address,…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Correction on HDS Processor 2. Important Clarification on LE 3. New Amdahl Processors 4. Important Caution on Daylight Savings Time & Sysplex Timers 1. Correction on HDS Processor In our last Cheryl’s List, we included some new HDS processors. The Pilot B8S model was listed as having…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Hurricane Georges 2. Processor Updates 3. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 4 Summary 4. Request for Web Server Experiences 1. Hurricane Georges If you tried to call our office on September 24 or 25th, you would have found that we were forced to evacuate our office…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Nifty Updates to Our Web Page: Link of the Week and Getting to Goal Mode We’ve just added two items to our home page. The first is a LINK OF THE WEEK. Each week I’ll write about an interesting OS/390 site. The second new item is…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Our Last Class! May 17, 1999 2. Latest Amdahl Announcements 3. Latest IBM CMOS Processors 4. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 3 Summary (previously printed in issue 1998, No. 3, page 3) 5. Informational APARs of Interest 6. SHARE in Washington, DC in August 1. Our…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. Latest CMOS Processors 2. How TUNING Letter Subscribers Can Obtain the New MIPS Ratings 3. Correction to RESMIL Recommendation 1. Latest CMOS Processors On May 7th IBM announced their new G5 series of processors, the 9672-Rx6 series (announcement #198-115). This series consists of sixteen new CMOS processors,…
In this issue, I’ll cover the following: 1. JES2 R4 and R5 Caution 2. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 1 Summary 3. Updates to Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter, 1998, No. 1 4. LE and PL/1 Overhead 5. New Seminars on Parallel Sysplex 1. JES2 R4 and R5 Caution On page 13 of our 1998,…
