Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter

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...

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...

1. Cheryl Introduces Upcoming SDS Webinar 2. Marna Walle's z/OS 2.1 Migration Webcasts 3. Software Pricing Class in New York City 4. Erase-On-Scratch Enhancements in z/OS 2.1 5. Our Website Additions 1. Cheryl Introduces Upcoming SDS Webinar As you no doubt know, one of our favorite activities is helping you get the maximum value from your z/OS investment. These days, a lot of companies are focused on driving down costs. And given that software is typically one of the largest costs of any IT...

1. COBOL V5 and LLA and PDSE, Oh My 2. SHARE, Here We Come 3. Classes in New York City 1. COBOL V5 and LLA and PDSE, Oh My You might recall that in Cheryl's List 181 we published a little information about the performance experiences of one of our clients when they moved to COBOL V5. That article generated quite a flurry of emails from other readers and from three IBMers in particular – Peter Relson, Tom Reed, and Tom Ross. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their help,...

1. Happy New IBM z13! 2. Updated CPU Chart 3. Upcoming Watson & Walker Classes 4. Small Correction to RLS for Catalogs Article 5. SMF Articles in Enterprise Tech Journal 6. Performance Issues With COBOL V5? 7. Anyone Using zEDC in Production? 8. Data Loss APARs 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2014 No. 4 The 89-page 2014 No. 4 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on January 23, 2015. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the...

1.  Happy New Year! 2.  Goodbye to Linda 3.  Watson & Walker Change of Address 4.  Upcoming Watson & Walker Classes 5.  Upcoming Tuning Letter 6.  SMF30 Support for zEDC 7.  RFE for BCPii Support for Absolute Capping 1.  Happy New Year! Cheryl sent me an excerpt recently from an article about healthy eating (I think she was trying to give me a pre-holidays hint). But the bit that I really enjoyed was the last sentence, which read "when I get to heaven, I want to skid in sideways,...

1. Upcoming Class in Dallas and Special Offer 2. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2014 No. 3 3. Customer experience – SU/Sec wrong for some zBC12s 4. IBM Eases Migration to z/OS Version 2 1.  Upcoming Class in Dallas and Special Offer As you have hopefully noticed, we have our 3-day 'Exploiting New Features of z/OS to Minimize Costs' class coming up in Dallas on December 8. It will deliver information about features and functions in z/OS 1.13 and 2.1 that can help you save CPU, or improve...

1. Our Upcoming Classes in the UK, Dallas, and Seattle 2. Upcoming System z Conferences 3. Information About Single-CP LPARs 4. DB2 Recommendations for System-Managed Duplexing 5. IBM RFE Related to DFSORT Buffering 6. Updated SMF Reference Summary 7. SMF Articles in Enterprise Tech Journal 1.  New Our Upcoming Classes in the UK, Dallas, and Seattle Based on the very kind feedback we received for our 1-day SYS1.Parmlib: Enhancements and New Features in z/OS 1.3 and 2.1 class on August 3, we...

1. New Watson & Walker Classes 2. First Watson & Walker Class of 2014 Delivered 3. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2014 No 2 4. IBM Software Pricing Announcement 5. DFSORT Red Alert 6. Tuning Letter 2014 No. 2 Feedback 7. SHARE Summary 8. Updated SMF Reference Summary 9. Hot Topics - a z/OS Newsletter 1.  New Watson & Walker Classes Not being ones to let the grass grow under our feet, Cheryl and I are now flat out on preparing material for two more new classes, to be delivered...

1. New SHARE Survey 2. SHARE sessions from Cheryl and Frank 3. CHARE Parmlib Class Reminder 1.  New SHARE Survey  The SHARE MVS program is conducting a survey to determine the degree of exploitation of System z hardware and z/OS software enhancements, and is requesting your help. The SHARE MVS Program community is providing this survey to gather information that will help in planning sessions and presentations for future conferences. Our intention is to determine which z/OS enhancements have...