by Cheryl Watson | Sep 30, 2021 | Cheryl's List
If you’ve been working from home and haven’t made it into the office, you might not have seen the August 24 snail mail from IBM announcing a price increase of 5% on MLC (Monthly License Charge) prices. We want to bring this up because many people are...
by Frank Kyne | Aug 9, 2021 | Cheryl's List
Watson & Walker, the mainframe industry’s leading independent performance consultants, are delighted to announce our latest software product, the Watson & Walker Application Profiler for Z (AP4Z). Are you a performance analyst, frustrated by seeing a...
by Frank Kyne | Aug 7, 2021 | Cheryl's List
This year’s Summer SHARE conference will once again be held as a virtual event. Access to pre-recorded ‘on-demand’ sessions was provided to registered ‘attendees’ starting last Monday (August 2nd), with the live sessions starting next Monday (August 9th). You can...
by Frank Kyne | Aug 7, 2021 | Cheryl's List
We just published the latest 153-page issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter, available to subscribers on our publications site. As usual, we aimed to have a mix of articles, with some covering important upcoming changes in z/OS 2.5, and others getting into more...
by Frank Kyne | May 11, 2021 | Cheryl's List
Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the 149-page Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter, 2021 No. 1, issue on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). The last quarter has been an action-packed one, so regardless of which group...
by Frank Kyne | Mar 9, 2021 | Cheryl's List
Here at Watson & Walker we love SMF data. And judging by the volumes of it that most z/OS sites generate, we are not the only ones. SMF can tell you just about anything you could want to know about what is happening on your systems. The downside of having that...
