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by Edward Hurley, Editor
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I am the first to admit that I make mistakes. Often, they are just because I am rushing. Other times I am just not paying attention or I am in over my head.
For example, once after going food shopping I brought a bag of clothes to a donation station. I throw it in the box and drove home. When I got home, I noticed that the bag of clothes was still in my back seat but my bag of groceries ... You guessed it, I throw my groceries in the box.
I was so mad with myself at the time but now I can laugh about it. Since then, I have never thrown another bag of groceries in a clothes donation box. I guess the value of mistakes is they teach us hard lessons.
For example, once in college, I had a very long take home final. I finished it and clicked save on my trusty old Brother word processor. While it saved, I thought I would start packing up my room so I went to unplug my mini-fridge. You know what happened. I lost the entire document. It took me days to rewrite. But you know what? I have never lost a document since. I often go overboard when backing up files but they are always safe.
I hope these two tales serve as a cautionary tale for you. First, always check the bag before throwing it in a clothes donation box. Second, always save your work multiple ways.
Do you have any sad or funny mistake stories you would like to share? On Search390.com, we have launched a new feature called Mainframe Mishaps. We hope these first person stories from mainframers will both educate and entertain you. If you haven't seen our first one, check out Mainframe Mishap: Well earned exits.
Send us any funny or educational stories you have about mainframe mistakes. You can send them to us by clicking here.
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DB2 performance tuning
by the editors of Search390.com
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Getting the best performance out of DB2 isn't easy but with some proper tuning and some planning, any mainframe shop can have their database purring like a kitten. Check out this week's Featured Topic to learn more.
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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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I have a project to perform the stop process of the systems and I desire that you recommend me about the order of it ... We use a rexx program to make this stopping sequence.
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