THIS WEEK: What's on your to-do list?

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January 02, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: What's on your to-do list? >> Featured Topic: Top stories of 2002 >> Expert Technical Advice: Upgrading to z/OS in 2003? Get help from Jim Schesvold. >> Site Highlights: * Get OS/390 News in your inbox * Server consolidation * New Salary Survey  From the Editor: by Robyn Lorusso, Assistant Editor Happy new year! We hope you've had an opportunity to review the events that defined 2002 for you. Now it's time to focus on new goals and beginnings for 2003. Whether you're looking for a new career, Web-enabling the mainframe, upgrading to z/OS or just trying to create a new batch program, we want to help you start the new year right. Tell us what's at the top of your mainframe to-do list. Do you have any big projects planned? Are you trying to make a purchasing decision? Do you have to troubleshoot a problem you left hanging in 2002? Let us know and we will help you find the answers you need to carry out your mainframe agenda. In the meantime, talk to your peers about mainframe future plans in our discussion forums, ask one of our 390 gurus for advice, or do some research in the new white papers section. Enjoy the rest of your week. Robyn Lorusso Assistant Site Editor Search390.com  Featured Topic: Top stories of 2002 by BJ Rama, Site Editor and Robyn Lorusso, Assistant Editor With 2002 coming to an end, we're looking in Search390.com's rearview mirror to recall some of the mainframe advances and trends from the past year. Here's a collection of your favorite stories and our editor's picks for 2002. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Jim Schesvold, President, Best Customer Solutions, Inc. Category: z/OS Does one of your projects for the new year involve upgrading from a 31-bit to a 64-bit architecture? Jim Schesvold can help answer your z/OS questions and concerns as you plan, implement and complete your upgrade. Check out some of his recent z/OS expert advice: What's the most prudent migration path to z/OS? Are there any known performance issues when migrating from OS/390 to z/OS? Can existing application object code be ported to z/OS? Pose your own question to Jim This Week: In the forums >> Search390 user "jbush" needs to know if he's doing his zSeries upgrade correctly: "We are planning a two-step conversion from HDS Pilot P48S with OS/390 2.9. We're first upgrading to a z800-003 then, five months later, to z/OS 1.4 64-bit. The HDS only has ESCON storage paths. For the first step, we plan to build new system areas on our new Fibre only STK 9960 array, which is connected with FICON. I predict that the only pre-conversion maintenance should be needed for FICON and zSeries support. Am I right? Click here to post a response in the "Upgrading to zSeries" forum Tip of the Week: Send commands to batch jobs By Jim Keohane You may have already learned how to make a batch job submissive to the operator MODIFY command. Read this week's featured tip and find out how your code can mimic an operator and send such commands. >> Read full tip  Site Highlights Get OS/390 News in your inbox Keep up-to-date with mainframe trends Why not get your news from the Web's best OS/390-specific information resource for enterprise IT professionals? Server consolidation Get the details about server consolidation from Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio Whether you currently run Unix or Linux, server consolidation is a key component of a network upgrade. Click here and learn everything you need to know about this critical topic. New Salary Survey Are you getting paid what you're worth? The new interactive Salary Survey allows you to get instant results customized to your specifications. 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