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FROM OUR SPONSORS: Data Center Decisions- June 2-4, 2004, Chicago How will emerging technologies affect the data center? http://datacenterdecisions.techtarget.com/html/registration.htm?track=NL-170&ad=482118&ad=479479&ad=479479 ____________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. FEATURES AND TOP STORIES - Featured Tip: Cheap CICS application logic tracing - Advice: FTP and variable lengths - Advice: You don't have to regen the NCP when migrating to z/OS - Featured Topic: The virtues of virtualization 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Survey: The future of the data center - White Paper: IBM DB2 data links manager performance evaluation - Discussion: Load fail for a large CICS program - The Missing Link: Take this java and shove it ____________________________________________________________________ ********* Data Center Decisions | June 2-4, 2004, Chicago ********** RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY! Register now for free attendance to the Data Center Decisions conference and hear leading experts from T Systems, Glasshouse technologies, HP, THINKstrategies and more discuss key issues and strategic trends. You can't afford to miss out - register today: http://datacenterdecisions.techtarget.com/index.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118&ad=479479&ad=479479 ____________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED TIP | Cheap CICS application logic tracing Looking to determine the logic path of a CICS application? You could use debugging tools but Search390.com user Jim Wilson suggests a trick to do it without buying special software. >> For the complete tip, click: http://www.search390.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci962717,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 >> Got a handy tech tip of your own? We'll post it on our Web site, where all your friends and contemporaries can see it. Click: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit?track=NL-170&ad=482118 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FTP and variable lengths | Ask the Expert A Search390.com user asked Jim Keohan, our Web integration expert: "I work in the MVS mainframe world and need to have access to a file in Unix. This file has character as well as binary data and is a variable length file. According to the Unix guy who is to provide us with the file, FTP only works on character data for variable length files. Therefore, everything in the file we get has been turned into char values. This includes a what-should-be one-byte flag which is now eight character zeroes. It's hard for me to believe that FTP has this limitation with variable length files. Would you know of the Unix FTP command and parms to do this or a way around it? Basically, on the mainframe I would like to get binary data in a variable length file from the Unix machine." >> For Jim's response, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid584063_tax285032,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You don't have to regen the NCP | Ask the Expert A Search390.com user asked Jim Schesvold, our z/OS migration expert: "When we switch from OS/390 to z/OS, will I have to redo the NCP gen? If so, do you have any hints as to where we go for details?" >> For Jim's response, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid584677_tax292523,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390.COM FEATURED TOPIC | The virtues of virtualization Virtualization is nothing new but IBM has made a lot of advancements with it on the mainframe. Click here to learn about this important technology. >> For this week's featured topic, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci962365,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 >> For a listing of our previous information-packed featured topics, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopics/0,290043,sid10,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 ____________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TechTarget is conducting a brief survey on the future of the Data Center and how changes in the data center will affect your organization. We would like to hear your opinions on what challenges you face as a data center professional and where you plan to make strategic investments going forward. These questions may influence the editorial focus of upcoming articles which will provide guidance to other data center professionals Please take a few minutes now and tell us how your company will prioritize your spending on the data center in 2004. ***No Vendors Please*** Take the short survey: http://www.insightexpress.com/s/Data69364 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED WHITE PAPER | IBM DB2 data links manager performance evaluation result This paper presents a study of DB2 Universal Database Data Links performance. Data Links provides a powerful data control system, including referential integrity, access control, recovery capabilities, and transaction consistency. >> For more information, or to download this white paper, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepaperPage/0,293857,sid10_gci943904,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 >> For more white papers, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepapers?track=NL-170&ad=482118 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DISCUSSION | Load fail for a large CICS program In our operating systems forum, "cicsprogrammer" asked: "We have a C++ Application Program having a size of 20 MB.We are not able to load the program on our CICS region. When we do a CEMT SET NEW PROG for this, it gives a load failed for this. The other programs in the same load library which have lesser size can be loaded without any problems. Is there some changes to be done on the CICS region parameters or so to make this possible. Or is there a limit on the size of the load module(program) that can be loaded in CICS? The problem is that the application has to be run on the client side, and they have the capability of loading programs upto 21MB." >> Read the rest of cicsprogrammer's posting and respond, click: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee83ff6/554 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | Take this java and shove it If you had to choose between your morning coffee and surfing the Web at work for your own personal use, which would you pick? Poor Joe, a new survey says he loses that battle.(SearchSecurity.com) >> Click: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci962699,00.html?track=NL-170&ad=482118 >> Want to hear more offbeat tales from the world of information technology? 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