Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter
Cheryl’s List #167 – August 31, 2013
1. SHARE in Boston Presentation 2. The Charge Back Normalization Myth 1. SHARE in Boston Presentation SHARE in Boston was my best SHARE week ever! On Monday morning during the general meeting and keynote, I received two awards - The President's Award (which came as a big surprise and a great honor) and a Best User Session award for my presentation last February. And then, on Thursday, I received a pin and award for 35 years of volunteering at SHARE. It doesn't seem like that long ago! I...
Cheryl’s List #166 – August 11, 2013
1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2013 No. 2 2. About Cheryl Watson's System z CPU Chart - July 2013 3. SHARE in Boston 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2013 No. 2 The 69-page 2013 No. 2 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on July 17, 2013. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the table of contents. The following is the Management Summary from that issue, talking about just some of the contents of that Tuning...
Cheryl’s List #165 – June 4, 2013
1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2013 No. 1 2. IBM Red Alerts 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2013 No. 1 The 68-page 2013 No. 1 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on May 21, 2013. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the table of contents. The following is the Management Summary from that issue, talking about just some of the contents of that Tuning Letter: Exploiting the zEC12 Cheryl described the zEC12 from a...
Cheryl’s List #164 – March 12, 2013
1. Happy New Year in March! 2. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 5 3. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 6 4. IBM Alert 5. New z/OS 101 Articles 6. Typos 1. Happy New Year in March! November and December were very busy months for us. We had just finished selling our office building and moving everything out to a storage unit, when we found a new home. We've since moved from a condo on Longboat Key to a smaller condo in downtown Sarasota (with a Whole Foods...
Cheryl’s List #163 – December 10, 2012
1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 4 2. About Cheryl Watson's System z CPU Chart - August 2012 3. In Memory 4. Congratulations 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 4 The 52-page 2012 No. 3 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on October 1, 2012. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the table of contents. The following is the Management Summary from that issue, talking about some of the contents of...
Cheryl’s List #162 – August 30, 2012
1. New IBM Mainframes 2. Cheryl Watson's CPU Chart 1. New IBM Mainframes IBM announced today the successor to the z196. It's called the zEnterprise EC12 or zEC12, and covers a range from 240 MIPS to over 78,000 MIPS in 161 models. The '12' in the name refers to the 12th generation of mainframes. IBM provides three sub-capacity models (4xx, 5xx, and 6xx) with 20 machines in each model line, and a full-capacity model (7xx) that has 101 machines ranging from 1 to 101 CPs. The speed of a...
Cheryl’s List #161 – August 15, 2012
1. SHARE MVS Program Survey 2. SHARE in Anaheim 3. New eBook and More from NewEra Software 4. IBM Education Assistant 5. Typo in last Tuning Letter 1. SHARE MVS Program Survey We extended the SHARE MVS Program Survey for another week, and it will remain open until this Friday, August 17th. We described the survey and the benefits of taking it in our last Cheryl's List #160. If you have time, please join the MVS Program and take our survey. We'll summarize the results and will notify...
Cheryl’s List #160 – July 26, 2012
1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 3 2. SHARE MVS Program Survey 3. SHARE in Anaheim 1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 3 The 42-page 2012 No. 3 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on July 13, 2012. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the table of contents. The following is the Management Summary from that issue, talking about some of the contents of this latest Tuning Letter: Outsourced? If your...
Cheryl’s List #159 – June 30, 2012
1. New Red Alert - Potential Loss of SPOOL Data 2. Real Storage Management (RSM) Problem 1. New Red Alert - Potential Loss of SPOOL Data 2011.06.29 - JES2 Potential Loss of Spool Data on z/OS 1.11 and 1.12. The fix for APAR OA36256 (RSU1112 PTFs UA61942, UA61943 UA61944 on HJE7760, HJE7770, and HJE7780 respectively) widened a timing window during JES2 initialization processing such that an initializing JES2 member may not obtain the correct status of other multi-access spool (MAS)...
Cheryl’s List #158 – May 30, 2012
1. About Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 2 2. New Publishing Schedule 3. Cheryl's Hot Flashes in Atlanta 4. New LinkedIn Forums 1. Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter 2012 No. 2 The 57-page 2012 No. 2 Tuning Letter was emailed to paid subscribers on May 16, 2012. You may visit our website at www.watsonwalker.com to obtain subscription information and the table of contents. The following is the Management Summary from that issue, talking about some of the contents of this latest...