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SEARCH390 | S/390 and Industry News
October 31, 2001
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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights

1. FEATURES AND TOP STORIES 
  - Featured Topic: COBOL or Java?
  - FREE Download: Murach's Beginning Java 2
  - Tip: Spotted owls, snail darters and assembler programmers
  - Advice: Help finding the name of active SMF datasets
  - News: IBM signs EMEA deal with SuSE 

  
2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS
  - Conference: Storage Management
  - Featured Book: Java for S/390 and AS/400 COBOL Programmers
  - Best Web Links: Programming
  - The Missing Link: The world's most expensive mobile phone
  - Current Poll: Cast your vote concerning the upgraded z900

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COBOL OR JAVA? | Search390 Featured Topic

Java has been heralded as the language of the future. So should you
scrap all that COBOL code for Java? Well each is better suited for
different applications, however, someone with skills in both would be
a pretty hot commodity.

>> CLICK for current Featured Topic...
http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci754959,00.html

>> CLICK for previous Featured Topics...
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MURACH'S BEGINNING JAVA 2 | FREE Download: search390

Want to learn more about programming with Java?  We're offering the
first four chapters of Murach's Beginning Java 2 as a free download
to all of our users.  These chapters will enable you to install Java
code and compile your first program, as well as start to code
object-oriented Java programs.  To download your free chapters, go to

http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepaper/1,289194,sid10_gci777354,00.html


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SPOTTED OWLS, SNAIL DARTERS AND ASSEMBLER PROGRAMMERS | Tip: Jim
Keohane

An endangered species is a plant or animal species whose ability to
survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. Read
and discuss the North American bit twiddler (hexdumpus americanus).
Send contributions to PETAP (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Assembler Programmers).

>>CLICK for the Full Tip:
http://www.search390.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci778615,00.html


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HELP FINDING THE NAME OF ACTIVE SMF DATASETS | Advice: search390

>From the SMCA map, can we find the name of the SMF datasets & which
one is active? OS/390 systems programming expert Mark Zelden offers
some suggestions.

>> CLICK for the Full Expert Answer...
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid420453_tax287555,00.html

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IBM SIGNS EMEA DEAL WITH SuSE | News: CW360

At the Linux World conference in Frankfurt, IBM and SuSE Linux
announced a deal that makes SuSE the chief European distributor for
IBM's DB2, Websphere, Lotus and Tivoli product lines. 

>> CLICK:
http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=0&rd=&i=&ard=107371&fv=1

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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED BOOK | search390 Bookstore

Title: Java for S/390 and AS/400 COBOL Programmers
Authors: Phil Coulthard, George Farr 
This book is designed to help COBOL programmers make the jump to
Java. It teaches COBOL programmers how to read and write Java
programs and helps them understand the concepts necessary to continue
to improve their Java skills.
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PROGRAMMING | Best search390 Web Links

Our editors scour the Web hand-selecting and cataloging the best
links, so you don't have to. We've done the mousework for you, so
click over today to browse hundreds of pre-screened resources on
COBOL, Java, Rexx and more. 
http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1453,00.html


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THE MISSING LINK | The world's most expensive mobile phone

What's scarier than even the most frightening Halloween trick? How
about a $60,000 cell phone? Yikes! An Austrian jeweler is turning
cell phones into wireless treasure troves, retrofitting them in gold
and diamonds. His crown jewel is a Motorola with an 18-carat gold
faceplate that's iced down with 950 diamonds. If you're going to pay
that kind of cashola for a Motorola, the reception better be flawless
(and no roaming charges)! The jeweler has his hands on Palms now;
they'll run about $75,000 apiece -- perfect for the person who has
way too much money. (infoSync)

>> CLICK: http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1038&page=1 


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TAKE OUR POLL | search390 Reader Survey

IBM has announced upgrades to the z900. Which are you most looking
forward to?

>>Tell us your opinion at http://www.search390.com/poll.

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