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SHARE User Events - Washington, D.C. http://share.prod.web.sba.com/dc/ ____________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. FEATURES AND TOP STORIES - Featured Tip: Another method of third-party FTP - New Webcast: Issues in mainframe TCP/IP performance monitoring - Featured Topic: VSAM performance tuning - Expert Advice: Migration and VTAPE - Expert Advice: More on autoinstalling TN3270 - News: IBM nabs California welfare contract 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Poll: Is grid computing the future of the data center? - Test your melon with Mr. Know-IT-All's Quiz Questions - Featured White Paper: Evolving the Web to mission critical - The Missing Link: Ask Jeeves, not Google ____________________________________________________________________ ******** SPONSORED BY: SHARE User Events - Washington, D.C. ******* Join thousands of IBM product users in Washington, D.C. for the most comprehensive user training available. This event features 700+ sessions, seminars, labs, 80+ vendor expo, and countless networking opportunities. Attend two symposia on applications development and security/disaster recovery for free! Use Promotion Code EB24 to save $100. Registration closes July 25! http://share.prod.web.sba.com/dc/ ____________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DEVELOPER TIP | Another method of third-party FTP You may remember earlier Search390 tip(s) or Ask-The-Expert responses that mentioned third-party FTP. That's where a single user, running a proxy FTP client, can direct two remote servers to exchange file contents. For a more visual transcription of this approach (using simultaneous side-by-side telnet sessions to the control port of each FTP server) check this tip out! This can be used as specifications for your own code FTP'ing astride two servers. >> For the complete tip, CLICK: http://www.search390.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci913605,00.html Got a 390-developer tip of your own? You can become famous immediately by sending that tip in. We'll post it on our Web site where all your friends and contemporaries can see it, thus devolving that fame upon you. And, as a bonus, we'll enter you in our tips contest, for some neat prizes. http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit/1,289485,sid10,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NEW WEBCAST | Search390.com Title: Four critical issues in mainframe TCP/IP performance monitoring Summary: Learn how to avoid the common IP performance management problems most e-business companies face. You'll also hear key IP site issues, including cost analysis, best management practices & more. Get it now at http://webevents.broadcast.com/techtarget/S390/062303/index.asp?loc=01 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED TOPIC | VSAM performance tuning 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. >> For this week's Featured Topic, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci877326,00.html >> For a listing of our previous information-packed featured topics, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopics/0,290043,sid10,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MIGRATION AND VTAPE | OS/390 Systems Programming We are poised to migrate to OS/390 2.10, (from 2.8) and shortly thereafter, to a new box and to new EMC DASD. We would like to use the old DASD for a few months to help us migrate tapes. We use CA's VTAPE solution and IBM's HSM. I'm looking for a way/product that will let me use the old, emptied DASD as "disk cache" to help me convert current 3480 TAPE datasets to STK 3590. >> For Mark Zelden's expert response, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid541229_tax287555,00.html >> To ask Mark a question about OS/390 systems programming, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid10_cid393389_tax287555,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MORE ON AUTOINSTALLING TN3270 | CICS In your earlier response, you suspected that terminals were not being deleted and that the model attributes were being preserved across sessions. Our problem is much more basic than that. We do not know how to determine bind or model information within our AUTOINSTALL program. Our delete and add flow in AUTOINSTALL is working as you suggested. Terminals are deleted when they logout or disconnect from our TOR. >> For Robert Harris' expert response, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid541220_tax289214,00.html >> To ask Robert a question about OS/390 systems programming, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid10_cid447693_tax289214,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= IBM NABS CALIFORNIA WELFARE CONTRACT | News California has awarded an $801 million contract to IBM to consolidate the state's ailing child-support computer systems. IBM has subcontracted out part of the project to Accenture and American Management Systems (AMS). Accenture will develop the child-support application, while AMS will implement the system in the more than 50 counties and administrative regions in California. >> For the complete story, CLICK: http://news.com.com/2100-1011-1025704.html The headline above and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL! Is grid computing the future of the data center? >> Go to the homepage and take our poll. CLICK: http://Search390.techtarget.com/#poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TEST YOUR IT SMARTS | Mr. Know-IT-All's Mainframe Skills Challenge Got what it takes to join the ranks of the Search390.com IT Intelligencia? You're about to find out. Take Mr. Know-IT-All's Mainframe Skills Challenge and test your melon today. >> To take the Mainframe Skills Challenge, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci906773,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED WHITE PAPER | Evolving the Web to mission critical IBM's CICS is the world's leading enterprise application server. This paper describes the strategy IBM has put in place to continue CICS' dominance of enterprise computing. If you're an existing CICS customer, you'll discover how easy it is to exploit your existing skills and assets in new business opportunities. If you're not currently a customer, this paper will introduce you to a technology for mission-critical e-business computing. >> For more information, or to download this white paper, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepaperPage/0,293857,sid10_gci875246,00.html >> For more white papers, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepapers =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | Ask Jeeves, not Google Have you "googled" for weapons of mass destruction yet? Everyone's doing this Google gag. You enter "weapons of mass destruction" in the search box, click "I'm feeling lucky," and voila -- you get a seemingly real error page that says, "These weapons of mass destruction cannot be displayed. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate." The page suggests you click "the regime change button, or try again later." A British pharmacist came up with the goof. It caught fire among surfers and became the top-ranked page among Google visitors searching for "weapons of mass destruction." (The Associated Press) >> CLICK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/15/tech/main563372.shtml >> Want to hear more offbeat tales from the world of information technology? Check out our complete archive of Missing Links at http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax292647,00.html. ____________________________________________________________________ ******************** SEARCH390.COM CONTACTS ************************ MARK BRUNELLI, Site Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your original articles and best practices. MARYANN TRIPP, Assistant Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send your white papers and best web links. DAVID GABEL, Executive Tech Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your technical tips and tip ideas. 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