Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter
Important Dates: z/OS Red Alert, z/OS 1.13 EOS, zBC12/zEC12 EOM, and 2038/2042
Here's a Red Alert and some important dates that should be on your calendar: Immediately: zEDC Red Alert As our regular readers will know, Cheryl and I are big fans of zEDC (zEnterprise Data Compression). All of my experience with it has been positive, and all of the feedback we received from our customers has been positive. Sadly, however, we all know that no software is perfect, and zEDC is no exception. On March 14, 2016, IBM issued a Red Alert for a data loss problem with zEDC. The...
Alain Maneville’s LPAR Design Tool Updated
Readers of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter will be familiar with Alain Maneville, from IBM France. Alain co-wrote an article about HiperDispatch for the Tuning Letter, and is also the author of the LPAR Design tool. The LPAR Design tool allows you to enter your LPAR configuration and model the impact that changes in an LPAR’s weight or its number of engines will have on the CPC HiperDispatch topology. We highly recommend the use of this tool if you want to optimize your HiperDispatch...
New Website – Welcome!
Welcome to our new website! We think that it has a fresh new look and will allow us to get information to you in a more timely manner and make it easier for you to do business with us. It will even scale to your mobile devices, allowing you to easily navigate the site. In the future, Cheryl's Lists will be a blog on the website. Rather than sending Cheryl’s Lists out as PDFs, you will get just a brief email with a link to the new entry. And rather than waiting until we have enough items,...
Cheryl’s List #190 – z Systems Exploitation Survey, Compuware White Paper, HIPER APAR, LPARDesign Spreadsheet
In this Cheryl’s List: 1. z Systems Technology Exploitation Survey 2. SHARE 2016 in San Antonio 3. Compuware White Paper 4. HIPER APAR OA49474 5. LPARDesign Spreadsheet 1. z Systems Technology Exploitation Survey Who doesn’t love to know what their peers are up to, and how they are positioned vis-a-vis other mainframe customers? Not us, certainly! Last week, we sent out a request to complete our z Systems Technology Exploitation survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RJ57FBL). The uptake was...
Cheryl’s List #189 – Tuning Letter 2015 No. 4 published
Welcome to the new look of Cheryl’s List! We will still be providing the same valuable content that you know and love, but with a slightly fresher look. If you obtained this from someone else and would like your own FREE copy of Cheryl's List in the future, please see the information at the end of this issue. We published the latest Tuning Letter last Thursday, so this Cheryl’s List is just a summary of the topics we covered in this latest issue. If your company has a subscription to the...
Cheryl’s List #188 – IFASEXIT Performance, Consulting, Erase-On-Scratch enhancement, Updated SMF Reference Summary, HSM Support for zEDC
1. He Does Exist! 2. Update to Tuning Letter 2015-3 3. IFASEXIT Performance and zEDC Support 4. Watson & Walker Consulting 5. Erase-On-Scratch Enhancement in z/OS 2.2 6. Updated SMF Reference Summary 7. GSE/IBM Conference in Boeblingen 8. HSM Support for zEDC 9. z/OS 2.2 Education Assistance 10. Our Calendars 11. A Thought for the New Year 1. He DOES Exist! I've been in this business for … a long time now. I've had the privilege of working all around this world of ours, and I've met people...
Cheryl’s List #187 – Tuning Letter 2015 No. 3 published
Watson & Walker, Inc. Welcome to Cheryl's List! If you obtained this from someone else and would like your own FREE copy of Cheryl's List in the future, please see the information at the end of this issue. This has been an especially hectic year for Cheryl and me, resulting in this Cheryl's List being a little later than we had planned. In future, we will publish a Cheryl's List immediately after the latest Tuning Letter – that Cheryl's List will only contain the Management Summary from...
Cheryl’s List #186 – MLC price increase, MIT Technology Review, IDCAM Suspend/Resume for ICF catalogs, DFSMSdss Data Loss
1. IBM MLC Annual Price Increases 2. MIT Technology Review 3. IDCAMS Suspend/Resume for ICF Catalogs 4. DFSMSdss Data Loss APAR 5. Our SHARE Presentations 6. z/OS Software Pricing Strategies Class in Orlando 7. Three Classes Announced for Germany in November 8. Our Calendars 1. IBM MLC Annual Price Increases You may remember that back in August 2014 IBM announced that they would be migrating to a strategy of annual price increases for their z Systems Monthly License Charge (MLC) software, and...
Cheryl’s List #185 – DB2 Red Alert, an interesting APAR, z/OS 2.2 announcement, Compuware CIO Survey
1. DB2 Red Alert 2. Upcoming Conferences 3. z/OS Software Pricing Strategies Class in Orlando 4. Three Classes Announced for Germany in November 5. An Interesting APAR 6. z/OS 2.2 Announcement 7. Compuware CIO Survey Now Available 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2015 No. 2 The 88-page 2015 No. 2 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on July 31, 2015. We sent an 89-page replacement out on August 4 because we were missing two figures. Page 44 has been updated, and page 45 has been...
Cheryl’s List #184 – DVDs, COBOL Binary Optimizer, RMF Record version numbers
1. 2014 DVDs Mailed on April 14 2. Meaning of PDSE(1) in Last Tuning Letter 3. COBOL Binary Optimizer Managed Beta Program 4. RMF SMF Record Version Numbers 5. z/OS Software Pricing Strategies Class 6. Class in Germany 7. zUniversity Conference in Dublin May 18-22 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2015 No. 1 The 101-page 2015 No. 1 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on April 10, 2015. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the...