THIS WEEK: Have you been searching for aliens?

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November 18, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Have you been searching for aliens? >> Featured Topic: CICS performance tuning >> Expert Technical Advice: Jan Lahmann is here to answer your Linux on OS/390 questions >> Site Highlights: * Real-Life Case Studies * Free your legacy data! * Member Survey  From the Editor: by BJ Rama, Site Editor At the end of every month, Search390.com's team runs a site report. In addition to various statistics, the reports show us what the most searched-for terms were for that given month. In October, instead of the usual mainframe-related terms like COBOL or Rexx making the top of the list, a rather unusual term came in at number one. It was "Alien Giger." Rather than simply dismiss this as a glitch in our software, we decided to do some investigating. What we found was pretty interesting. Initially, we thought this could be attributed to a bot or spider, but we've since ruled that out because a bot or a spider would probably send the same user-agent for every search. Although it does appear that these searches all came from the same ISP, it is definitely a group of different users because the browser used was different in each search. So what happened? Search390.com site expert Jim Keohane thinks it might have something to do with the movie Alien and the mainframe computer named "mother." Or perhaps mainframe entertainment, a company with some connection to science fiction and Giger. Mainframe is also frequently used in sci-fi and other fantasies, so maybe some Giger fans were looking for mainframe, stumbled upon search390.com, and kept on searching? Hmmm... What's your theory? Let's have some fun with this. Send me your best guess to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll publish the most popular theories on our site. And remember, the truth is out there!  Featured Topic: CICS performance tuning by Robyn Lorusso, Assistant Editor Looking for a CICS performance boost? Tuning and maintaining your CICS systems to meet performance goals is no simple task. This Featured Topic will help you identify, analyze and eliminate performance constraints in CICS. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Jan Lahmann, eServer Architect, IBM Corporation Category: Linux on OS/390 Jan is here to answer your Linux questions. Send him one today! Submit a question This Week: In the forums >> Who should get security access to the mainframe? One Search390.com user recently asked expert Mark Zelden who he thought should get mainframe security access. Mark shared his insights and now we'd like to get yours. Here's the question posed to Mark: "We are a new OS/390 shop that has insourced from an outsourcing data center. I am the security administrator for the mainframe. I work in the systems programming department, where we have DBAs. The DBAs believe that they should have the same security access as the mainframe systems programmers. I don't believe this should happen but I am having a hard time convincing the assistant vice president that they should not have the same access." So what do you think? Read what your peers are saying in the Sound Off forum, and add your two cents! Tip of the Week: Horrible things you can do with save area chains By Jim Keohane A few of you reacted in sheer horror to the save area toggling done in my two Search390.com tips: Horrible things you can do with IDCAMS Horrible things COBOL can do with IDCAMS Well, here's another product of Jim's self-proclaimed "fertile but warped mind"... >> Read full tip  Site Highlights Real-Life Case Studies Help build the new User Experience section on Search390.com Click here for more information on how your greatest IT triumphs can help your fellow mainframers. 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