=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390| Expert Questions of the Week Tip March 11, 2002 Answers to your technical questions and expert advice for the 390 community. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
IN THIS ISSUE | Table of Contents 1. Expert Questions of the Week - How to use MQSeries to improve performance? - Need help charging back usage for IMS, CICS and DB2? - How to extract and process e-mail attachments in a batch job? 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Featured Topic: Capacity Planning - Discussion: Can you help with hardware data compression issue? - Take Our Poll: Do you use Web-enabling CICS applications? - Refer a friend: Win an Olympus Camedia digital camera - Search390 Tips Contest: Win a Garmin eMap GPS ___________________________________________________________________ ======================================================== STORAGE MAGAZINE editorial highlights: March issue ======================================================== Here's a preview of our March topics: ** Strategies to manage the explosion of customer data. ** Storage professionals are hot. (A snapshot of the evolution of the storage profession.) ** How to make NAS work with Microsoft Exchange. ** A guide to secure SANS. ** Plus how September 11 changed disaster recovery for all of us, and what's been learned about the use of tape, electronic, and disk backup. FREE 42-page storage networking special report with your free subscription. Subscribe today at: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3802146;5058249;i?http://www.storagemagazine.com ____________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW TO USE MQSERIES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE? | by Clayton Ching Dear Ask the Expert, My appserver would need to communicate with a mainframe application using MQSeries. There are about 15 types of messages. Would you suggest using 15 queue managers, each having two queues (request and reply) for better performance? Or would it be the same having 30 queues for one queue manager? Also, the data coming from the mainframe application would be in EBCDIC format and I need it in ASCII format. How should I do it? >> CLICK for Clayton's answer: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid451485_tax287117,00.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NEED HELP CHARGING BACK USAGE FOR IMS, CICS AND DB2? | by Mark Zelden Dear Ask the Expert, I need to charge back usage for IMS, CICS, DB2. Usage should only include applications time and not systems or operator overhead. Which SMF records should I use? >> CLICK for Mark's answer: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid454885_tax287555,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW TO EXTRACT, PROCESS E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS IN A BATCH JOB? | by Jim Keohane Dear Ask the Expert, I'm interested in extracting and processing email attachments in a batch job. Is this possible? 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Check out our featured topic resources for more information. >> CLICK for full featured topic: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci761512,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390 DISCUSSION FORUMS | Operating Systems Search390 member "mattmvs" posted the following in the Operating Systems forum: "We are looking into using VTAM startup options CMPMIPS=50 and CMPVTAM=4 to turn on compression. Given that we have an IBM 9672 R26 we expect hardware (HDC) as opposed to software compression. We are looking at turning off software compression in NDM (Connect:Direct) and using HDC instead. There are many pros and cons to consider when implementing this: What aspect if any causes CPU consumption? Will this reduce my amount of I/O? Will this cause reduction of my RU (request unit) sizes? Will this be applicable in the TCP/IP realm? The documentation within IBM (Redbooks, IBMLink, ETR) seems sparse. Is this something that actually works and is it worth pursuing? We expect to use it on DASD also." Do you think this solution would work for "mattmvs"? Please share your thoughts and suggestions. To join this discussion, click here: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/301!viewtype=convDate&skip=&expand= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL | Search390 Are you currently using Web-enabling CICS applications such as Web Support and CICS TS? >> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WIN AN OLYMPUS CAMEDIA DIGITAL CAMERA | Refer a friend Tell your peers about the valuable industry news, technical tips and expert advice you get from search390 -- and an Olympus Camedia digital camera could be yours. 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