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SEARCH390.COM | Tech Update
March 19, 2003
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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights

1. FEATURES AND TOP STORIES
   - Featured Tip: Dinosaurs don't flock
   - Expert advice: Teaching an old dino new tricks
   - Expert advice: Converting mainframe reports to PDF
   - News: SCO suit could set nasty precedents for Linux 
   - Featured Topic: Data center futures
    
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   - Poll: Are you using the mainframe for e-business apps?
   - Featured White Paper: Introduction to Web services architecture
   - Join the Discussion: Converting to 64-bit in Z/OS journey 
   - The Missing Link: Profile of a virus writer

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FEATURED TIP | Dinosaurs don't flock

It may be that you have been looking for Web sites that are hosted on
Big Iron. But when you do, you will find a veritable sea of PC-based
servers out there, and interspersed in it, an archipelago of Dinos
that are bravely hosting sites despite what anyone may say. 

So to find the Dino sites, why not check out the Dino Ring. Then
follow this advice:

One Web Ring to link them all,
One Web Ring to find them,
One Web Ring to bring them all
and all the Dinos bind them

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TEACHING AN OLD DINO NEW TRICKS | Ask the Expert

Reading Kevin Ferguson's Tip in the IT Career Expert Section I
learned that VB.Net, ASP.Net and C# are the hottest, most sought
after new tecnologies in IT. How does an old Dino, like myself,
negotiate the path from a vanilla COBOL/CICS/DB2 environment to that
land over the rainbow that houses these new technologies?

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CONVERTING MAINFRAME REPORT TO PDF | Ask the Expert

We send out a six-foot stack of paper reports every month. I want to
convert the mainframe reports to a PDF format, store them on a server
with a "key" that will tie reports together for a customer and be
used for security. What's the best way to get a mainframe report
PDF'd and still retain the page breaks and spacing on the PDF
version? 

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SCO SUIT COULD SET NASTY PRECEDENTS FOR LINUX | News

Should SCO Group manage to win its billion-dollar claim against IBM,
or if IBM settles with SCO, other open-source developers could emerge
looking for compensation for their contributions to Linux and other
open-source projects. (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci886727,00.html

The headline above and others are available on our news page.
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SEARCH390.COM FEATURED TOPIC | Data Center Futures

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FEATURED WHITE PAPER | Introduction to Web services architecture

This paper introduces the major components of, and standards
associated with, the Web services architecture. The different roles
associated with the Web services architecture and the programming
stack for Web services are described. The architectural elements of
Web services are then related to a real-world business scenario in
order to illustrate how the Web services approach helps solve real
business problems.

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JOIN THE DISCUSSION | Converting to 64-bit in Z/OS journey 

A Search390.com member says he will be converting to 64-bit in his
journey to Z/OS. He wants to know if he needs any new processors,
recompiles or parameters to be changed in his current processors to
get to 64-bit processing? Can you help?

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THE MISSING LINK | Profile of a virus writer

Here's a shock: the author of Klez probably does not look like Pamela
Lee. And it's doubtful that the person who gave us Nimda changes out
girlfriends like Hugh Hefner. The CEO of antivirus firm Sophos has
nailed down the demographic of your average Joe virus writer: he's a
14- to 34-year-old guy who's obsessed with computers, has no names in
his "little black book" (if he even has one), and couldn't socialize
his way out of a paper bag. But he knows how to make IT squirm. So
maybe in addition to, say, a firewall, your security strategy should
include something more organic -- like getting one of these lonely
code monkeys a girlfriend. (Reuters)

>> CLICK:
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>> Want to hear more offbeat tales from the world of information
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