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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...

Winter 2022 SHARE Conference

March 25, 2022frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, Conference, IBM, mainframe, performance, SHARE, z/OS

Hopefully all our readers are aware that the first face-to-face SHARE conference in two years is taking place in Dallas, Texas next week. Because this is the first transition back to a live format, this will be a truncated conference, in terms of its duration and the number of tracks. Rather than the normal five...

Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2021 No. 4 Now Available

February 15, 2022frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, COBOL, IBM, Java, mainframe, performance, z/OS

Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 146-page issue, 2021 No. 4, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: 2021 ended with the world’s media full of stories about the ‘Log4j vulnerability’, and how it was possibly the largest ever security exposure. Log4j is an open source...

SHARE Presentations Added to Website

March 19, 2017cherylCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, EXECUforum, mainframe blog, mainframe blogs, mainframe conference, mainframe news, MLC Reduction, performance, SCRT, SCRTPro, SHARE, software costs, Watson & Walker, z/OS, z/OS news

We had a great week at the SHARE conference in San Jose. Frank had 125 sessions that he decided he wanted to attend (he didn’t quite achieve that goal!). We had a vendor session for our new SCRTPro service, presented two EXECUforum sessions in addition to our zRoadshow session on Friday (thanks to all those that…

New Watson & Walker SCRTPro Service

March 6, 2017frankCheryl's ListAWLC, BMC, CAzE, Cheryl Watson, Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, CMLC, Contract Management, IBM, mainframe, mainframe blog, mainframe blogs, MLC Reduction, MWP, SCRT, SCRTPro, Software audits, Software Cost Management as a Service, software costs, Software Pricing, Solution Edition, Watson & Walker, z/OS, zCAP, zWPC

Have you ever been frustrated by the disconnect between MSUs and Dollars (or Euro or Yen or Pesos or whatever)? I expect that many of us have been in the position of trying to explain why reducing your z/OS workload by 10% will not reduce your software bill by 10%. Or, conversely, that increasing your…

Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2016 No. 4 Published

February 13, 2017frankCheryl's List113, Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, CPU MF, Data Studio, David Hutton, IntelliMagic, performance, SCRT, software costs, Spark, Todd Havekost, WLM, z/OS, zCAP, zEDC

We emailed Tuning Letter 2016 No. 4 to our subscribers on February 8. This issue provides all you wanted to know (and probably some stuff you didn’t want to know!) about z Systems Collocated Application Pricing (zCAP). It also discusses the recently-announced z Systems Workload Pricing for Cloud (zWPC), and how you can use Workload…

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Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2022 No. 1 Now Available

Winter 2022 SHARE Conference

Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2021 No. 4 Now Available

SHARE Presentations Added to Website

New Watson & Walker SCRTPro Service

Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter 2016 No. 4 Published