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A weekly newsletter from TechTarget  July 14, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Technical insights from top mainframe experts >> Featured Topic: VSAM performance tuning >> Expert Technical Advice: Gerhard Adam, systems management expert >> Site Highlights: * 24/7 access to mainframe experts * Targeted s/390 and zSeries resources * White paper of the week  From the Editor: by Agata Celmerowski, Site Manager Need advice on structuring your system for ServerPac? Looking for hints on supporting more than one SSL site? From z/OS installation and management to WebSphere strategies, Search390.com has a collection of technical tips guaranteed to ease your mainframe woes. We've collected time-saving tidbits and useful shortcuts from some of the top gurus across the mainframe industry. Check out some recent additions to our collection of s/390 and zSeries-specific words of wisdom: Six tips for managing outsourcing relationships Businesses face obstacles on the road to grid computing Quick & Dirty Support for BIG (but not too big) COMMAREA Mainframes are from Mars; Workstations are from Venus More firms using Web services to integrate legacy apps And more! Be sure to take a minute and revisit your favorite Search390.com tips. If you're reading one for the first time and want to ensure you don't miss out in the future, get similar tips delivered to your inbox. Simply login and edit your email subscriptions to sign up for one or more targeted Search390.com newsletters. Agata Celmerowski Site Manager, Search390.com  Featured Topic: VSAM performance tuning by Mark Brunelli, Site Editor Tuning your VSAM datasets is a great way to delay or possibly avoid a CPU upgrade, improve the run-time of your programs and greatly cut your online response time. See this week's featured topic for a collection of technical tips all about VSAM performance tuning. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Gerhard Adam, President, SYSPRO Inc Category: Systems management Gerhard Adam, President of SYSPRO Inc., offers 30 years of experience in large systems computing with specialization in performance, capacity planning, and z/OS internals. He's here to answer your questions about s/390 and z/OS systems management, and to help you keep your systems running as smoothly as possible. Read Gerhard's answers to previous questions This Week: In the forums >> Take the Mainframe Skills Challenge today! Got what it takes to join the ranks of the Search390.com IT Intelligencia? You're about to find out. 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