Not directly related to the mainframe but of interest, I think: The Wall Street Journal (Sept 11) gave its top 'Technology Innovation Award' to Sun Microsystems for a product called 'DTrace' (google on 'SUN' & 'DTRACE' to see a number of entries). . Quoting from the article by Michael Toddy:
Computer systems are notoriously finicky. They'll him along just fine and then unaccountably slow down, freeze up or stop working altogether. Finding the cause of some unexplained problem is difficult and time-consuming, especially with complicated systems in real-life settings. Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. have devised a way to diagnose misbehaving software quickly and while it's still doing its work. While traditional trouble-shooting programs can take several days of testing to locate a problem, the new technology, called DTrace, is able to track down problems quickly and relatively easily, even if the cause is buried deep in a complex computer system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
