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…
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…
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…
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…
