=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390.COM | Expert Questions of the Week Tip December 30, 2003
Answers to your technical questions and expert advice for the 390 community. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___________________________________________________________________ FROM OUR SPONSOR: - Search390.com Career Center http://search390.techtarget.com/dice/0,294542,sid10,00.html?track=NL-16&Offer=390dicesur93 ___________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE | Table of Contents 1. EXPERT QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK - Developing a GUI app to scrolling through events - Console vs. GUI-based mainframe applications - Rollback changes coming undone 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Featured Topic: The top ten tips of 2003 - Featured Tip: Throwing eggs at spammers - Fast guide to IT humor: Assortment of the best IT-related humor - Poll: Where will your company spend the most money in 2004? - Featured White Paper: An examination of iterative development ___________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED BY: Search390.com's Career Center How does your salary compare to those of your peers? Visit Search390.com's new Career Center powered by Dice and take our salary survey. You'll find training, certification and resume resources along with over 27,000 IT job openings to search through. 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Is it possible to develop an application using drop-down boxes and check boxes for the user to "drill down" into a particular case? >> For our expert's response to this question, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid553351_tax285032,00.html?track=NL-16 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CONSOLE VS. GUI-BASED MAINFRAME APPLICATIONS | DB2/Database Management I was wondering if you could let me know whether the majority of mainframe applications sold these days are console-based or GUI-based. In your opinion which of the above two alternatives is more effective, both in terms of being user-friendly and being functional? Going forward, is there going to be a trend towards PC-based GUI applications for mainframes? >> For our expert's response to this question, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid542061_tax293066,00.html?track=NL-16 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ROLLBACK CHANGES COMING UNDONE | DB2/Database Management I have a cursor that selects "n" rows from a table based on certain conditions. If there is any error while processing, the updates to the table are rolled back and continue processing with the next fetched row. But, rollback is forcing the cursor to close, which gives a -501 error. How do I handle this? >> For our expert's response to this question, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid565288_tax293066,00.html?track=NL-16 ___________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED TOPIC | The top ten tips of 2003 The votes have been tallied and our members have spoken. This week we feature the top ten most popular and useful Search390.com technical tips of 2003. Enjoy! >> For this week's Featured Topic, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci942070,00.html?track=NL-16 >> For a listing of our previous information-packed featured topics, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopics/0,290043,sid10,00.html?track=NL-16 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED TIP | Throwing eggs at spammers Novant Health started fighting spam almost by accident. The company, which manages health care facilities in North Carolina, needed encryption tools to comply with new federal regulations regarding the handling of patient data. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires companies to add layers of security to information architecture, so that prying eyes can't see patient information. >> Read entire tip: http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci941978,00.html?track=NL-16 >> For more helpful Information Architecture tips, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid10_tax285350_alpD_idx0,00.html?track=NL-16 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FAST GUIDE TO IT HUMOR | Assortment of the best IT-related humor According to Andrew Carnegie, "There's little success where there's little laughter." That would seem to suggest to us that most presentations are not very successful, and could be vastly improved by the leavening agent of humor. With that in mind we've gathered an assortment of the best IT-related humor we could find. We've got jokes, cartoons, quotations, a PowerPoint section and more to jazz up your presentations and have your audience eating out of your hand. >> Click here for IT-related humor... http://search390.techtarget.com/gDefinition/0,294236,sid10_gci942103,00.html?track=NL-16 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL! In which of the following areas will your company spend the most money in 2004? >> Go to the homepage and take our poll. CLICK: http://Search390.techtarget.com/?track=NL-16#poll >> Take advantage of our new Sound Off feature appearing just below the poll. Share your thoughts on this poll and/or view all posted poll messages. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED WHITE PAPER | An examination of iterative development This article discusses some of the people issues associated with adopting iterative development in a mainframe development environment. >> For the complete white paper, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepaperPage/0,293857,sid10_gci939346,00.html?track=NL-16 >> To browse our giant collection of white papers, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepapers?track=NL-16 ___________________________________________________________________ :::::::::::::::::::::: SEARCH390.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::::: MARK BRUNELLI, Site Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your original articles and best practices. 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