Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

If you are attending the SHARE conference this week, we hope you have enjoyed it and that our blog posts have been a little help in finding interesting and relevant sessions.  It is hard to believe that we are already discussing the sessions for the last day of the conference, but we hope our selections below will help you finish the week on a high note. The Thursday sessions I think might be particularly interesting to our readers are as follows: Thursday, 07:30, PSP: Leveraging Generative AI...

Hello from me, Mark Wilson, the incoming Editor and Producer for Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter. We’re proud to release the latest issue, 2024 No.4, on the publication's website. If you’re not a subscriber yet, consider this your nudge. You can catch the complete Table of Contents here, available to the public.  In this Tuning Letter issue, you will find the following practical articles and insights: A ‘Fond Farewell’ from Frank Kyne to our subscribers after 11 years of excellent service and...

The 2025 Winter SHARE conference will be held in the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, starting tomorrow, Sunday, February 23. This one is a 4-day conference, with the last day (Thursday) being a full day. If you are attending, check out the Technical Agenda and download the SHARE app for your mobile device. As usual, I’m finding that I have many instances of scheduling clashes between sessions that I really want to attend. If you are attending with colleagues, I highly recommend...

We are delighted to announce that the first issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter since its transition to Planet Mainframe has just been published.  You can find the 117-page Tuning Letter 2024 No. 3 on the new home of the Tuning Letter, https://tuningletter.planetmainframe.com/.  You can find the full Table of Contents here.  This issue contains the following: An updated FAQ to address any questions our subscribers might have regarding how the transition will impact them. Regular readers...

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...