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by Jim Connolly, Editorial Director
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Think of all the great ideas being floated by vendors, service providers and leading-edge consultants: You can junk your big Unix servers for a few hundred cheap Intel servers. You can add Linux to your mainframe. You can consolidate a half-dozen data centers into two, or decentralize from two to six. You can implement an on-demand computing strategy, assuming you can find two experts who agree on what on-demand means. You can go with bricks, blades, Windows, clusters or virtualization.
Notice one common thread in all these options, dear data center manager: The experts want you to do all this work, you to sort through the options, and you to implement revolutionary technologies and strategies.
The editors in TechTarget's Data Center Media Group, which includes six Web sites and next June's Data Center Decisions Conference, want to help you to not just wrestle with these concepts, but to succeed. We can draw on the knowledge of vendor-independent experts and the experiences of your peers to identify the best ways for you to solve business problems with new approaches to computing. We can help you to sort out the buzzwords from reality.
I'm responsible for identifying new site features, conference agenda items and trends that impact all data center managers. So, I'm asking for your input: What data center-related challenges keep you awake at night? What type of information can we provide you to keep your data center running efficiently?
Please send me your thoughts.
Have a great week!
Jim Connolly
Editorial Director
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CICS acronym-o-phobia
by the editors of Search390.com
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Like many technologies within the mainframe world, CICS loves acronyms. CICS is itself an acronym. Do you know what RDO or TCB stand for? Test your knowledge today by taking our new CICS acronym-o-phobia quiz.
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Expert Technical Advice: |
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Featured Expert Tom Ross, Software Engineer, IBM
Categories:COBOL, PL/I and LE programming
Tom Ross is a senior software engineer in COBOL development. Tom has spent his entire 18 year IBM career in COBOL development, working on the compiler and run-time libraries for every release of VS COBOL II, COBOL for OS/390 & VM, and IBM COBOL on AIX, Windows, and OS/2. He is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for MVS and VM, and in Year 2000 issues facing IBM mainframe customers. He is a frequent speaker at user groups including GUIDE, SHARE, IBM Technical
Interchange and others. In fact, he is the IBM representative to SHARE for COBOL. Tom grew up in Los Gatos California and earned a Bachelor Degree in Computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. He started his love affair with IBM on Valentine's Day, 1983.
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This Week: In the forums
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A Search390.com user in our Operating Systems forum asked:
I would like to understand if FTP on zOS can derive the DCB
information from SMS dataclass, storage class, management class. It
appears that without specifying the 'lrecl blksize recfm' FTP uses
default information from FTP-DATA.
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| Tip of the Week: |
| Systems management will soon become much more tied to business
functions. But data center culture has to change, too, to incorporate
and more fully use the tools that are already available and to begin
negotiating with end users about the service levels they can
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Big changes in store for systems management technology, culture |
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