Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 94-page issue, 2024 No.2, on our publications website. In this issue, you will find the following: A ‘passing of the baton’ letter from Cheryl to our subscribers, many of whom have been with us since Cheryl and Tom launched Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter back in 1991. In addition to looking back at the success of the Tuning Letter, now in its 34th uninterrupted year of publication, Cheryl introduces Amanda Hendley, the Managing...

Here is the third installment of our 4-part series of Cheryl’s List blog posts about sessions at SHARE that we think might be particularly interesting to our readers. This post has enough sessions to keep you and your colleagues out of harm’s way for all of Wednesday. Time permitting, I’ll get the list for Thursday’s sessions out tomorrow evening. So, my list of sessions I think might be especially relevant to our readers on Wednesday are as follows: Wednesday, 07:30, Do You Know Your...

Following on from Part 1 of our posts about sessions at SHARE that we think might be particularly interesting to our readers, this post has more than a few sessions to keep you entertained on Tuesday. I had hoped to send this post out yesterday, but this is the first chance I’ve had to catch my breath since arriving here. So, this post will cover Tuesday, and I’ll get the list for Wednesday’s sessions out tomorrow evening. But before I go on, I have a big mea culpa. I received an email from...

As you can imagine, we have been kept quite busy since Tom and Cheryl announced they were in discussions with a company that was interested in taking over Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter.  We’ve had many emails that started with “Could you please look at xxx for me?” and ended with the real reason for their email - “And while I’m here, I was wondering who is going to be taking over the Tuning Letter?” ?. It has taken a little while for us to be able to answer that question.  All parties in the...

The mainframe recently celebrated its 60th birthday.  To hear their thoughts on what the next 60 years holds for us, join Cheryl and other industry leaders on an Open Mainframe Project webinar at noon (Eastern Time) on May 23.  The mainframe (which I call 'The Original Cloud'), and its users, have learned quite a bit over the last 60 years, so this is a great opportunity to see how that knowledge and experience might be applied over the next 60.  Will we still be using JCL in 2084?  Tune in to...

Hi All, It is hard to believe that the 2024 Winter SHARE conference is half-over already.  And what a conference it has been – our very own Cheryl Watson was presented with the SHARE Distinguished Service Award at the opening session on Monday morning. This honor recognizes Cheryl’s 47 years’ of contributions and dedication to the SHARE organization, its members, and the mainframe platform.  In addition, SHARE presented my colleague Mario Bezzi and me with the John Ehrman Award for our work on...

The 2024 Winter SHARE conference will be held in the Rosen Center hotel in Orlando, Florida, starting this coming Sunday, March 3.  This one is a 5-day conference, with the last day (Thursday) being a full day.  If you are attending, check out the agenda and download the SHARE app for your mobile device. I don’t have the Technical Agenda from a previous SHARE conference to hand, but it seems like there are more sessions in parallel than normal (for example, there are 13 sessions all at 9:15 on...