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Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2024 No. 1 Now Available

May 16, 2024frankCheryl's ListAltair SLC, Cheryl Watson, Frank Kyne, performance, Ransomware, SMF, Tuning Letter, z/OS, zEDC, zPCR
Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 92-page issue, 2024 No.1, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: Exciting news about the future of the Tuning Letter.  Following discussions with a number of interested parties, Cheryl and Tom announced on May 10 that they have reached a tentative...
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Latest News on Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

May 10, 2024frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Tuning Letter, Watson & Walker
Here's some exciting news: We told you in a previous blog post that we hadn't been able to find a buyer for Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter and that the final issue would be released in January 2025. This is NO LONGER TRUE!! It seems our announcement sparked a lot of interest, and we were inundated...
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2023 Watson & Walker CPU Chart Updated for Latest z16 Models

May 23, 2023frankCheryl's ListCapacity, Cheryl Watson, CPU Chart, MIPS, MSUs, performance, software costs, Watson & Walker, z/OS, z16
The latest edition of Cheryl’s CPU Chart is now available to subscribers on our publications website.  This update adds the information for the 156 z16 A02/AGZ models to the existing database that reaches all the way back to the z900 models (a total of 2810 IBM mainframe models).  In addition to the spreadsheet that contains over 40 attributes...
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Winter 2023 SHARE Conference Is on Next Week

March 1, 2023frankCheryl's ListAI, Cheryl Watson, Frank Kyne, SHARE, WLM, z/OS
The 2023 Winter SHARE conference will be held in the Atlanta Hyatt Regency hotel next week.  This is an abbreviated conference (3 full days - Monday to Wednesday), however there are more sessions on Sunday than normal, so if you are attending check out the agenda to see if any of those Sunday sessions would...
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Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2022 No. 4 Available Now

February 6, 2023frankCheryl's ListCapacity Planning, Cheryl Watson, Frank Kyne, Matthew Leming, MIPS, MQ, MSUs, Software Risk Assessment, Todd Havekost, XCF, z/OS, z/OSMF, z16, zPCR
Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 139-page issue, 2022 No. 4, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: One of the most consistently popular Tuning Letter articles is the User Experiences and Tips one.  This issue’s article opens with a reminder to readers that the FREE GSE UK 3-day virtual...
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Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2022 No. 1 Now Available

May 20, 2022frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, mainframe blog, performance, Telum, z16
Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 140-page issue, 2022 No. 1, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: A 52-page ‘introduction’ to IBMs latest mainframe, the z16.  The z16 was announced on April 5th, and will be generally available on May 31st.  We expect that many subscribers are...
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SHARE in Pittsburgh

August 3, 2019cherylCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Frank Kyne, Pittsburgh, SHARE, software costs

The next SHARE conference will be held in the Pittsburgh Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Sunday, August 4th to Friday, August 9th. You can get more information about the conference here: https://event.share.org/. Cheryl and I will be presenting a double-session on the latest news about IBM’s container pricing initiatives (DevTest Containers and Tailored Fit Pricing), as well as…

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IBM’s z14 and z/OS 2.3 Announcements

July 27, 2017cherylCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, CPU Chart, IBM, z/OS 2.3, z14

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…

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IBM zCouncil and z/OS Security Health Check Offering

June 26, 2017frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Education, IBM, Security, z/OS, zCouncil

IBM Customer Outreach (Free local education) [From Cheryl] I was very pleased to be invited by Lih Wang of IBM to present at their Chicago z Systems Customer Council event on May 9th. I had a great time and got to meet over a hundred local z customers and IBMers. I learned a lot, and…

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IBM Technical Bulletin, anyone?

June 23, 2017frankCheryl's Listarchives, Cheryl Watson, history, IBM, mainframe, MVS, orange book, pdf, redbook, systems center, technical bulletin, WSC, z/OS

Hopefully all our readers are familiar with the beloved IBM Redbooks.  But our younger readers might not be familiar with Redbooks’ older cousins – Orange books, Yellow books, Blue books, and Green books.  These books (called IBM Technical Bulletins) were very similar in concept to Redbooks, however they were published by IBM’s Systems Centers rather…

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