======================================================= SEARCH390 NEWS ROUNDUP August 23, 2001 More headlines at: http://search390.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid10,00.html ========================================================== SPONSORED BY: Computer Associates ========================================================== Visit CA at Booth #773 at LinuxWorld, in San Francisco, August 28 through August 30 at the Moscone Convention Center. CA will be conducting three sessions: Integrated eBusiness Management, Intelligent eBusiness Security Architecture, and a Birds-Of-A-Feather. We will also be exhibiting eBusiness Management solutions, including Network and System Management, Desktop and Server Management, Storage, and Security for both distributed and mainframe Linux implementations. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3247018;5058249;j?http://www.ca.com/solutions/linux/s390_zos.htm ======================================================== Lead Story: "DB2 migration program targets Teradata customers" IBM has rolled out a new program to entice users of NCR's Teradata to migrate to DB2. California-based supermarket chain Raley's has made the switch and now has over 500 gigabytes of customer data on a zSeries running DB2. SOURCE: searchDatabase http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid13_gci762593,00.html For more information about DB2 see these search390 Best Web Links: http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1532,00.html Or see these Best Web Links on data warehousing: http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1536,00.html =========================================================== DEVELOPER TIPS =========================================================== With Developer Tips, you'll get inside information and expert advice from authors and experienced programmers who will cover issues such as programming languages, sample scripts, how to's, and a range of other development topics. To try out this free e-mail service for yourself, just update your user profile at http://search390.techtarget.com/register/1,,sid10,00.html and be sure you select developer in the "tips" checkbox. *Code correction to yesterday's developer tip "Practicing safe HEX"* For those of you that received yesterday's Developer Tip, there was incorrect code that Jim Keohane has since fixed. It is as follows: The fix is to remove all COBOL SIGN specifications (the S's) from PIC clauses. The S caused the compiler to generate a ZAP (zero and add packed) machine instruction to set the sign. ZAP is actual math and will crash if data is invalid. Please find "05 FROM-S9" and change "PIC S9" to "PIC 9". Please find "10 TO-AS-IS" and change "PIC S9' to "PIC X". Please find "10 TO-PACKED" and change "PIC S9" to "PIC 9". Though not required it would be cllearer to change FROM-S9 to FROM-9 in two places. Speaking of tips, Jim Keohane wants your feedback! He posted a request for feedback in our developer discussion forum. What do you think of his tips, past and present? Anything in particular you'd like him to write about in the future? Let us know. Post your thoughts here: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected] ======================================================== TODAY'S OTHER S/390 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ======================================================== [1] IBM Regatta: A Unix server that thinks it's a mainframe [2] The future of enterprise Linux [3] Branding helps Big Blue branch out [1] "IBM Regatta: A Unix server that thinks it's a mainframe" IBM has joined the bandwagon of Unix server vendors, who offer servers with increasing more mainframe-like features such as logical partitioning and higher availability and reliability. The new Regatta pSeries Unix boxes, available with up to 32 processors and up to 256 Gbytes of memory, will be released this fall. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/Components/Search/Article.asp?ArticleID=29156 [2] "The future of enterprise Linux" Four analysts give their takes on Linux in the enterprise in this ZDNet feature. To some, Linux offers companies a true alternative to Windows NT and 2000. Others still ponder whether the development of Linux will encroach on cousin Unix's domain. SOURCE: ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2806630,00.html [3] "Branding helps Big Blue branch out" IBM wants everyone to know that it's technology is used in everything from cellular phones to digital cameras to the new Nitendo Gamecube. This week, Big Blue announced a new "IBM technology" logo to be affixed to products containing its technology. SOURCE: The Poughkeepsie Journal (N.Y.) http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/business/stories/bu082301s1.shtml ======================================================== Take Our search390 Poll: ======================================================== How has capacity planning paid off for your shop? Let us know at http://www.search390.com/poll ========================================================= ========================================================== BEST WEB LINKS ========================================================= [1] "CICS & WebSphere: Platforms for e-commerce" If you missed search390's online event with CICS guru Bob Yelavich, don't worry. Here is the full audio/visual transcript from that event. If you are confused about CICS, WebSphere and e-commerce, you're not alone. Bob Yelavich answers some commonly asked questions, sheds some light on these two products and the role they each will play in your company's future. SOURCE: search390 http://www.italkservices.com/iTalkSlides/CustomerDocs/tcht01/viewLogin.asp?prov=15351&pres=1&U=ae3b58ca-8780-11d5-a8dd-00d0b79d93bf&SA=1 [2] "Eliminate recurring problems in distributed computing settings" Automated policies can help administrators move beyond solving the same server problems over and over. If you have noticed the same issues cropping up in your server administration time after time, the answers in this searchWindowsManageability Q & A interview with top Platform Computing executives will be of interest to you. Source: searchWindowsManageability http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci759835,00.html ========================================================= ========================================================= AND DON'T FORGET TO SEND US YOUR TIPS ========================================================= Have a great tip of your own that you'd like to share with the rest of us? Then send it in. Our tip of the month contest has been extended through the end of August, so there is still time to take home the fabulous T-Rex remote control dinotronic dinosaur. To submit your tip today, go to http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit/1,289485,sid10,00.html ========================================================== THE MISSING LINK ========================================================== A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web "AOL CD protest takes off" An organized effort is under way to rid the world of those annoying AOL software CDs that clog your snail-mailbox on a weekly basis. Citing "needless pollution" caused by the disks, a group of eco-aware Internet users put together a Web site called nomoreaolcds.com at the start of this month with the stated goal of collecting one million disks. Once collected, they plan to pollute the front lawn of AOL's U.S. headquarters with them. More than 20 days into their campaign, the site said it has collected 25 disks. 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