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Linux, security skills projected hot skills for 2005
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Heard on the (IT) street
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Top 10 backup tips of 2004
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CICS download central
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Is the S/390 obsolete?
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The Missing Link: Rock 'n' roll holy water leaves building -- for eBay
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Linux, security skills projected hot skills for 2005
[Search390.com]
IT workers looking to improve their standing in the job market should look to open source, Web services and security-related skill and certification sets, according to recent research.
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> Data center staffing mindset is changing
> Unionization is a mixed bag for mainframers
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Heard on the (IT) street
[SearchOracle.com]
A look at some of the newsworthy moments of 2004, as told from those in the trenches and ripped from the headlines.
Top 10 backup tips of 2004
[SearchStorage.com]
Our top hitters in the backup tips section reflected your continued interest in disaster recovery planning and budget technologies such as SATA and RAID.
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CICS download central
As a holiday present, the editors of Search390.com have assembled the best of our CICS chapter downloads in this one location. There is enough good technical material here to keep you reading to March. Enjoy!
ADVICE:
Is the S/390 obsolete?
A Search390.com user asked Jim Schesvold, our system programming expert:
Our bank is one of the bigger in our country. I am a member of the IT internal audit team, and we're very concerned because IT management wants to change our S/390 VSE/ESA 2.3 (soon to be updated to VSE/ESA 2.6) to Unix and Oracle platforms. IT managers base their decision on the opinion that S/390 is an obsolete platform and it doesn't have enough support. However, we want to maintain our mainframe platform and upgrade it in the future (maybe to z/890, for example). Where can we find info to
support our argument? On the other hand, the IT management has evaluated acquiring z/890 to create redundancy. Could a S/390 X17 could be operated with z/OS?
To read Jim's response, click here
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Rock 'n' roll holy water leaves building -- for eBay
[Reuters]
eBay is turning into so much more than a mere auction site. It's becoming a computer-age freak show that would make P.T. Barnum wonder if suckers were born every 30 seconds. eBay, which gave us a Senate candidate's sweat-covered napkin; a partially eaten grilled cheese with (supposedly) a likeness of the Virgin Mary lightly toasted into the bread; and (briefly) a throat lozenge spat out by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, now has sold
about three tablespoons of water from a cup thirsty Elvis drank from during a concert months before his death in 1977. The seller snagged the cup after the show and kept the water frozen all these years. The winning bid? $455 -- "thangya ver' much."
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