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CA addresses licensing costs complaints with new program
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Big Blue reports strong mainframe sales in Q3
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Some DBAs not thrilled by open source
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DB2 performance tuning
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The Missing Link: Cell phone jammers mean 'no service' at church service
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CA addresses licensing costs complaints with new program
[Search390.com]
Users tired of unfair software licensing cost could get a reprieve as companies continue to tweak their pricing plans to be more flexible.
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> Software upgrade costs irk mainframe users
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Big Blue reports strong mainframe sales in Q3
[CNET News.com]
Sales of zSeries helped push IBM's hardware sales up 9% during the third quarter, the company announced this week. While a good quarter for Big Blue, a $320 million pension settlement ate into profits.
Some DBAs not thrilled by open source
[SearchDatabase.com]
Increased competition from open source hasn't affected SQL pros. DBMS shoppers put cost second to features and support -- two areas where some DBAs say open source is deficient.
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[Search390.com]
Looking beyond the green screen (IT-Analysis.com)
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Conversion and performance issues
A Search390.com user asked Jim Schesvold, our z/OS expert:
We have a large, old (non-LE) PLI application being converted to Enterprise COBOL. What performance issues and/or overhead will b incurred with both the COBOL/LE CICS and batch programs? We will be installing on z/OS v1.4 on a 9672-R46 that is running close to maximum capacity and I am worried about not having enough CPU to handle it.
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Cell phone jammers mean 'no service' at church service
[Associated Press]
Jamming in church? You bet -- and lots of it. Four churches in Monterrey, Mexico -- tired of the modern-day mating call known as the cell phone ring -- have installed cell phone jammers behind pictures of the Madonna and statues of saints, thus offering sanctuary to worshippers tired of hearing noisy Nokias during Mass. The practical technology has tactical origins -- it helped Israeli security forces thwart phone-triggered
bombings. And even though the private use of cell phone blockers is illegal in the U.S., you've got to wish the technology were "coming to a theater near you."
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