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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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CICS TS 5.3 Red Alert

June 21, 2017frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, CICS, IBM, PI82188, Red Alert

IBM announced a Red Alert for CICS TS 5.3 on June 19, 2017 (the first one in nearly 7 months).  This Red Alert is the result of a bug whereby two CICS transactions can be given the same Unit of Work ID (UOWID). The problem arises when the duplicate UOWIDs are passed to a subsystem…

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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…

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SHARE in San Jose and New IBM Pricing Announcement

February 16, 2017frankCheryl's ListCheryl Watson, EXECUforum, IBM, MVM, performance, SHARE, software costs, Software Pricing, SVC, z/OS

SHARE Conference in San Jose Now that we have Tuning Letter 2016 No. 4 behind us, Cheryl and I are busy working on our presentations for SHARE in San Jose that starts on March 5th. I’m aiming to achieve one of my lifetime ambitions – to have at least ONE of my presentations finished before…

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