Cheryl’s List #35 – December 14, 1999

1. REXX Dates 2. Late Y2K Redbook 3. Cheryl Watson’s TUNING Letter 1999, No. 5 Summary 4. HFS and PDSE on Non-SMS Volumes 5. Quickstart Policy Question 1. REXX Dates If Y2K comes and you find some of your REXX execs not working properly, you may find that the...

Cheryl’s List #34 – December 8, 1999

1. Cheryl Wins CMG’s Michelson Award 2. Last Y2K Items 1. Cheryl Wins CMG’s Michelson Award A Note from Tom: Cheryl has just received a very high honor! Here is the notification from the Computer Measurement Group: The 1999 A. A. Michelson Award for the ...

Cheryl’s List #33 – November 22, 1999

1. CMG in December 2. HFS on Non-SMS Volumes 3. SURVEY Results 1.  CMG in December Installations seem to feel secure enough with Y2K that they aren’t staying away from important conferences at this time of the year. The registrations for the CMG conference...

Cheryl’s List #32 – November 10, 1999

1. New MP3000 Announcement 2. SURVEY 3. Funny Y2K Cartoon 1.  New MP3000 Announcement On September 20th, IBM announced a new series of S/390 servers, the Multiprise 3000 (announcement # 199-240, 299-269, 299-271). This is an unusual series of processors because they...

Cheryl’s List #31 – October 2, 1999

1.  Clarification on WC=YES In our last TUNING Letter issue (1999, No. 4), we had an article on page 5 describing a technique for limiting CPU capacity. We described how a reader had set WC=YES on a single test LPAR to ensure that the LPAR took its entire weight, thus...