This Week: Linux on the mainframe for newbies

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Published by Search390.com  July 06, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Do you like free stuff? Search390.com's editor Edward Hurley does. >> Featured Topic: Linux on the mainframe for newbies >> Expert Technical Advice: Gerhard Adam, president of SYSPRO Inc. >> Site Highlights: Featured Webcast Ask the Experts Featured White Paper  From the Editor: by Edward Hurley, Editor I have an unofficial motto: I like free stuff. I picked it up during college when I had more needs than cash. If someone offered me something, I'd take it. Everything from my couch to some of my clothes to most of my kitchen items were hand-me-downs. I am now a little more discriminating about what free stuff I take. For example, I was at a buddy's wedding last year and he offered me a case of oversized brandy snifters, which had been used for the centerpieces. I have to admit that I always wanted a giant brandy snifter! I love things larger or smaller than normal. For example, I like shopping at those wholesale clubs like Sam's Club or Costco because they have gallon-sized bottles of buffalo chicken sauce and other larger-than-life items. But I found myself turning down my friend's offer. "No thanks," I said. "I just don't have room for those snifters right now" and I didn't. In my mind, there are two kinds of free stuff. Free stuff you need (or really want) and free stuff you accept just because it's free. The distinction being stuff you would have bought anyway and stuff you wouldn't. Fish bowl-sized brandy snifters fall under the latter category. I really don't see myself ever going shopping with the express purpose of buying a behemoth brandy snifter. On the other hand, a free air conditioner, in my case, would fall under the first kind of free stuff. You see my brother's brother-in-law is moving so he is giving me his old air conditioner. Readers of my columns will remember I was going to buy an air conditioner after sweating my way through many summers. (See >From the editor: Data center cooling heats up). The reason I bring up free stuff is because I have some for you this week. I secured from Prentice Hall PTR, a free chapter of "Linux on the Mainframe", written by Eilert, Eisenhaendler, Matthaeus and Salm. To download it, just click here. Moreover, we are having a little contest this month. I will give a copy of "Linux on the Mainframe" to the Search390.com user who submits the best mainframe tip. The tip doesn't have to be about Linux. (For the complete rules or to enter, click here).  Featured Topic: Linux on the mainframe for newbies by the editors of Search390.com No innovation for the mainframe is probably as cool as Linux. It's the perfect marriage of a battle tested platform with an up and coming OS. The editors of Search390.com have collected a series of links on Linux on the mainframe. Check them out! Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Gerhard Adam, president, SYSPRO Inc. Categories: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 has been involved in software development extending from access method interfaces and telecommunications to AFP software. Gerhard also has developed courses for IBM Education in MVS internals, performance, client/server computing, and systems management. Currently Gerhard is teaching classes around the country on a variety of z/OS and WLM topics. In addition to working with various education companies, Gerhard has shared his expertise with Landmark Systems Corp., IBM Education, National Bank of Detroit, Grand Trunk Western Railroad, and the U.S. Marine Corps. View all Gerhard's answers This Week: In the forums >> A Search390.com user asked in our operating systems forum: Can someone tell me how to find out whether SRESTART or RESTART option for FTP is installed at my site which has z/OS? Do you have answer? If so, post it here. Tip of the Week: Now, not everyone should run Linux on their mainframes but should you? This tip examines the issues companies should examine when considering running the open-source operating system. >> Linux on the mainframe -- is it right for you?  Site Highlights Featured Webcast IMS is geared for fast and frequent access. You can directly attach IMS to the web or go via CICS or DB2. In this Webcast, Jim Keohane discusses the ins and outs of bringing IMS databases to the Web. View in now Ask the Experts Get your technical and implementation questions answered by the experts at Search390.com. Visit today and pose a question. 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