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by Edward Hurley, Editor
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I have to admit something to you. I misled you!
Last week, we published the Acronym-o-phobia quiz. It proved very popular but a few of you brought something to my attention. Many of the terms were not in fact acronyms.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines "acronym" as:
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
So COBOL is an acronym while IMS is not. Words like IMS are theoretically abbreviations but I didn't think the Acronym-and-Abbreviations-o-Phobia quiz had the right ring to it.
Last week during a Webcast on Web-enabling IMS, Jim Keohane mentioned something very interesting. Yahoo actually is an acronym. It stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
I invite you to check out this week's Featured Topic on IMS. Click here to see it. Also, give Jim's Webcast a listen. He provides a lot of great info on Web-enabling IMS databases. Click here, to hear that.
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Featured Topic: |
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Intro. to IMS
by the editors of Search390.com
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IMS may be an older technology but that doesn't mean it's over the hill. Far from it. IBM's venerable hierarchical database is still widely used today. Check out this set of links to learn more about IMS.
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Expert Technical Advice: |
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Featured Expert David Boyes, president, Sine Nomine Associates
Categories:Linux on the mainframe
Anyone who works with Linux on IBM's S/390 mainframes has certainly
heard of David Boyes. He made history early in the project by running
no less than 41,400 Linux images on a single mainframe, all of them
doing real work under simulated load as Web servers. More recently,
David has been involved in helping application service providers and
other companies deploy Linux on S/390 hardware. Dr. David Boyes is
CTO and President of Sine Nomine Associates, (Latin for "without
name"), which he runs with his wife Margarete, and has participated in operating systems and networking research for more than 20 years, working on design and deployment of systems and voice/data networks worldwide. David has designed scenarios and economic models for systems deployment on many platforms, and is currently involved in design and worldwide deployment of scalable system infrastructure for several Global 1000 companies.
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This Week: In the forums
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A Search390.com user asked in our developer forum:
Is there a way to ftp and EBCDIC file from the mainframe to a Unix platform without any characters being sent?
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| Tip of the Week: |
| The editors of Search390.com have collected some of the best DB2 advice from Craig Mullins, our DB2 and database management expert. |
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DB2 advice your daddy didn't give you |
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| Expert Webcast |
| Join Jim Keohane for this expert webcast where he will discuss the process of of bringing IMS databases to the Web. Register for this webcast now. |
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| Best Web Links |
| Here are the Best Web Links for programming languages. Explore by language or visit "General Developer Resources" for some universally useful references and developer portals. |
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