Frank is in Munich this week, attending the Technical University conference. The agenda looks really exciting, with sessions on the latest enhancements to WLM and RMF, a load of sessions about controlling software costs, hot topics like Blockchain and Spark, the latest hardware (z13s and DS8880), Parallel Sysplex (of course!), Bob Rogers’ ever-popular Sysprog Goody…
Cheryl and I just finished taking part in the 2.5-day Nordic GSE 2016 conference in Reykjavik. We really enjoyed the conference. Everyone made us feel so welcome, and it was great to have a chance to finally meet people that have subscribed to the Tuning Letter for many years. The organization was flawless, and they…
On May 13, 2016, IBM Flash10863 was updated to inform users that all internet delivery of z/OS product and service orders must use a secured download method by May 22. A summary of the flash was provided on May 5 by Marna Walle in her SHARE blog, “Are you electronic delivery secure?”. Essentially, you can…
In our Cheryl’s List #190 (February 24), we sent a survey to our readers to determine how extensively some of the newer z/OS technologies were being accepted. The survey is still open if you’d like to take it or see the original questions – at www.surveymonkey.com/r/RJ57FBL. Thanks so much to the 220+ people who have…
We emailed Tuning Letter 2016 No. 1 to our subscribers on May 3. This issue covered the new IBM z13s, a summary of enhancements added to z13 as part of the z13s announcement, an analysis of IBM’s LinuxONE strategy, something old and something new for SMF (a description of enhancements to SMF records in z/OS…
Here’s a Red Alert and some important dates that should be on your calendar: Immediately: zEDC Red Alert As our regular readers will know, Cheryl and I are big fans of zEDC (zEnterprise Data Compression). All of my experience with it has been positive, and all of the feedback we received from our customers has…
Readers of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter will be familiar with Alain Maneville, from IBM France. Alain co-wrote an article about HiperDispatch for the Tuning Letter, and is also the author of the LPAR Design tool. The LPAR Design tool allows you to enter your LPAR configuration and model the impact that changes in an LPAR’s…
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In this Cheryl’s List: 1. z Systems Technology Exploitation Survey 2. SHARE 2016 in San Antonio 3. Compuware White Paper 4. HIPER APAR OA49474 5. LPARDesign Spreadsheet 1. z Systems Technology Exploitation Survey Who doesn’t love to know what their peers are up to, and how they are positioned vis-a-vis other mainframe customers? Not us,…
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