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by Edward Hurley, Editor
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I could be accused of being obsessive when it comes to storing old data. I have every Word and Excel document and a host of other files I have created since 1998. When it comes to data, I am a pack rat.
I have recently asked myself why I am so committed to saving all my old files. Do I ever use them? Hardly. The only answer I can see is my old files are like a diary. The files are a chronicle of my life for the past few years. The other day, I went through and found the cover letter I used over four years ago to get my current job. I also found the resignation letters for two previous jobs. There were also an assortment of spreadsheets for diets, finances and books to read.
I protect my data by using a Web-based backup service. So if my hard drive suddenly crashed or if my PC got stolen, I can bring back my files in a matter of minutes.
I was very thankful to have my files backed up online when I got a new PC and when I have had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows. Backing up one's files is important. Many home users don't do it. It's definitely a prudent practice but I think I have taken it a little too far.
This week's Featured Topic is on backup. It is definitely one of those technologies that you really don't think a lot about until you need it. To check out Backup Basics, click here.
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Backup basics
by the editors of Search390.com
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Backup is definitely one of those technologies that you really don't think a lot about until you need it. The editors of Search390.com have compiled a set of links encompassing what a mainframer needs to know about backing up.
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Featured Expert Phil Emrich, senior consultant, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Categories:CICS
As a member of Vanguard's Professional Services consulting team, Phil provides a range of security related consulting services to Vanguard's clients, as well as training and client support for Vanguard's suite of software to enhance security policy enforcement, administration, and auditing for z/OS mainframe centric clients using the RACF component of IBM's Security Sever of z/OS. Many of the consulting engagements Phil undertakes have to do with z/OS middleware including CICS, WebSphere MQ, and
DB2. Phil has over 36 years experience in the information technology industry, spending 31 years with IBM in a variety of capacities, providing technical consulting and technical product support to IBM customers and their local IBM'ers and guidance to IBM software development laboratories. His technical expertise includes IBM's OS/390 and z/OS versions of IBM's Security Server (RACF), all of the versions of IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), IBM's cross platform messaging
software, WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries), IBM's Information Management System (IMS), and IBM's DB/2 relational database software, as well as expertise in programming languages for IBM's S/390 and z/OS systems, including assembler language. Phil is a frequent speaker at SHARE and IBM technical conferences in the U.S., and also at conferences and seminars in Europe, Australasia, and the Far East, as well as the Enterprise Security Conference and EXPO sponsored by Vanguard each of the past 18
years. Phil was first exposed to commercial data processing in the mid-1960's as an employee of Statistical Tabulating Corporation in Chicago and joined IBM in Chicago after completing a BS Mathematics degree at Purdue University.
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This Week: In the forums
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A user posted this question in our developer forum:
Hello all,we are converting programs from OS VS COBOL to IBM OS 390 COBOL. fields defined as S9 (signed numeric ) are displaying the sign as unprintable character '{' Here is an example below.Does anyone have any explanation, and should this be considered valid/allowed difference?
00 000000000000R20030605 < OS VS
00 00000000000{R20030605 < OS 390
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