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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...
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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...
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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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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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