If you support z/OS and have access to the Internet, you almost certainly have been impacted by a sweeping website redesign that IBM is currently implementing. To say that we, and much of the z/OS community, are unhappy is a massive under-statement – if you don’t normally follow IBM-MAIN, you should take a few minutes…
Good news for all our Tuning Letter subscribers that were wondering what you could find to keep you busy over the weekend. Just when you thought that you might ‘have’ to go to the beach, or do some long over-overdue Spring cleanup, we have great news for you – the latest, 148-page, Cheryl Watson Tuning…
Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2018 No. 1 We apologize for the delay in getting this issue out. I had some family medical issues which threw all my plans out the window. But the issue is finished now, and the publisher is working their magic on it, and we will hopefully have it available on our…
Are you attending the IBM Systems Technical University event in sunny Orlando this week? If so, we hope that you are enjoying the vast selection of interesting sessions and making the best of those invaluable networking opportunities. If you are already thinking about ways to convince your manager to let you attend the next event,…
Just because you have outsourced your mainframe environment, that doesn’t mean that you no longer need to be concerned with it. It probably still runs your critical applications, houses your corporation’s data, and services your colleagues and customers. It also still accounts for a sizeable chunk of your IT budget. So you still have responsibility…
Greetings from beautiful (and sunny!) Sacramento, California, home to the 2018 Winter SHARE conference. Cheryl and I are here for the week. You might remember that Cheryl had to skip the last SHARE conference due to an impending knee replacement operation. But with that behind her (or maybe under her?), Bionic Cheryl is back and rarin’…
Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2017 No. 4 Available The 106-page 2017 No. 4 issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter is now available on our www.watsonwalkerpublications.com website. Based on input from our readers, it seems that many sites are reviewing z14 proposals from IBM. Therefore, this issue provides articles that we hope will be particularly valuable…
Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2017 No. 3 Available The 122-page 2017 No. 3 issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter is now available on our www.watsonwalkerpublications.com website. We have been getting lots of queries from readers about the new IBM z14s. Obviously the IBM proposal writers have been on overtime :). Given the interest from our…
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…
