THIS WEEK: Performance Management

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>>About this email:  >>Receive this email as text   December 24, 2001  In this Issue >> From the editor: The BUG That Disappeared After Morning Coffee Break >> Featured Topic: Performance Management >> Expert Technical Advice: * Featured Expert: Steve Samson * Career Discussion Day * WebSphere App Server, don't look back, something might be gaining on you! >> Site Highlights: * New Poll! * S/390 TargetSearch Presents �The 10 Most Searched Terms of 2001� * FREE White Paper  From Expert Jim Keohane: by Jim Keohane, Site Expert Just like Sergeant, err, Private Zim in "Starship Troopers", I'm ready for a BUG HUNT! Not the wimpy bazillipedes from "Men in Black" nor the mother-of-all b*tches in "Alien II" nor the squishably soft arthropods in "Independence Day." I want a Mensa-on-steroids "Brain Bug" that snorts weapons grade FLIT for recreation! Yes, Moby Bug! If you have a great story email it to me here with "BUG HUNT" as Subject. Here's my story: In the late 80's at CA, I couldn't replicate a reported bug in CA-Optimizer. One morning I skipped coffee, tried again and at 8:30am the bug hit! I waited until a customer in California was in so as to do some synchronized debugging. He encountered the reported bug, but I no longer could! It went away!!! CA-Optimizer invoked the IBM compiler underneath the covers and then read in all the compiler outputs in order to improve them. To determine where in SYSPRINT CA-Optimizer was currently positioned the page headings were sometimes examined for constants like "LITERAL POOL - CONTINUED ". Note the trailing blanks. One too many blanks actually crowded the time stamp. If time was " 8:42" or " 9:32" the logic did one thing. If "10:00" or "12:13" the COMPARE was always FALSE. The COMPARE was vestigial code that should have been removed. Happy holidays--Jim K  Featured Topic: Performance Management by BJ Rama, Site Editor Buildup, overload and meltdown. These are three words that you probably dread hearing. Check out our collection performance mgmt-related tips and advice below and let us help you avoid B.O.& M! Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Steve Samson, Senior Technical Consultant, Candle Corporation Category: Performance Management Having trouble going to goal mode? Then you've come to the right place. Steve will help you work through the headaches and realize the benefits of managing your workload. To ask Steve a question, click here: This Week: In the forums >> If you missed our live discussion day last week with search390's careers expert Rick Nashleanas, don't worry. Rick answered a bunch of great career-related questions that afternoon, and the threads are available to view online in our Sound Off discussion forum. To view the Q&A's, or to post a new question, click here: >> Developers, think you know the answer to this one? "Balmoral" posted the following in the Developer forum and needs your help: "I have software that uses the IBM C Parser 1.2 that I use in batch. Parsing the XML with a DOCTYPE that references a DDNAME (for the external DTD) works well. But for technical reasons, I also need to make the same XML work with the same DTD but this time, inside the XML. The DOCTYPE statement should therefore disappear. Unfortunately, it does not work. When parsing, I have an 0C4 abend on one of the parser methods (GetAttributes). I tried many combinations without success. Logically, if I take the external DTD and make it internal, it should work, but it does not. Does anybody have an solution for me?" Help a peer in need before the year ends! To post the solution to this problem, click here: Tip of the Week: WebSphere Application Server for OS/390 (WAS) leads the mighty mainframe into the world of Java. But it is not the only path to salvation. There's the latest iteration of the original mainframe application server, CICS Transaction Server V2.2 (TS22). >> WebSphere App Server, don't look back, something might be gaining on you!  Site Highlights NEW POLL! Take our quick holiday poll and get instant results. If Santa gave your company more money to spend for next year, where would you spend it? FREE White Paper Technology Based Training This white paper is a research document prepared for individuals and companies to prove that Technology Based Training (TBT) is the fastest, most economical and also the best way to learn. Download it today! S/390 TargetSearch Presents �The 10 Most Searched Terms of 2001� 1)CICS 2)LMainframe 3)Linux 4) 5)IMS 6)COBOL 7)DB2 8)MVS 9)VSAM 10)WebSphere Try the Web�s only 390-specific search engine powered by Google technology today and view the results in practical categories including: ** Best Web Links ** Web Pages ** Vendor Listings ** News ** Expert Technical Advice Win an Xbox! 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