This Week: Has your mainframe ever murdered anyone?

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February 07, 2005 Published by  Search390.com This Week NEWS     TOPICS     ITKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE     TIPS     ASK THE EXPERTS     WEBCASTS     WHITE PAPERS     IN THIS ISSUE:   > From the Editor: Has your mainframe ever murdered anyone?   > Featured Topic: A jolt of Java   > ITKnowledge Exchange: REXEC from IBM mainframe   > White Papers: View this week's featured White Papers   > Webcasts: View this week's featured Webcasts   > More From Search390.com: Sun's new pricing model: More bang for a buck? NEW Salary Survey Visit the Career Center today and view the latest Salary Survey to find out how your job, pay, and satisfaction compare with your peers. FROM THE EDITOR Has your mainframe ever murdered anyone? Have you noticed the subtle smear campaign that has been going on for the last few years? A tried and true term is linked to negative connotations. I am talking about "mainframe" of course. To people in the zSeries world, the word conjures up words like stable, reliable and secure. But to ignorant people, mainframe means just a big, old computer. The latest example of this can be found in a recent science fiction movie. I won't tell you which flick as I am about to give away the ending. A mainframe turned out to be the murderer. That's just simply goes over the line. Why wasn't it just simply a "computer" that did the killing? Why did they have to call it specifically a mainframe? Perhaps mainframe has become too charged a term. Maybe, mainframe users should come up with a new term for the platform. A few years ago, IBM tried to reposition S/390 machines as "enterprise servers" but it never really caught on. Let me know what you think. Do you think mainframes need a new name? If so, what would you suggest calling them? Click here to send your thoughts. FEATURED TOPIC A jolt of Java Java is here to stay. This week's Featured Topic offers a boatload of information for the Java newbie and pro alike. > More on this ITKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ITKnowledge Exchange: REXEC from IBM mainframe ITKnowledge Exchange member "joey2maki" asks: How do you run a batch script on an NT Server using REXEC? Read the post Offer your advice and we'll post it for you > VISIT ITKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE  FEATURED WHITE PAPERS Chapter 20 of Murach's CICS for the COBOL Published by: Raul Menendez and Doug Lowe z/OS Migration Workbook: "BCP Migration Actions" Published by: IBM > VIEW ALL WHITE PAPERS  FEATURED WEBCASTS Improve the Efficiency of Your Production Batch Environment by Optimizing Your JCL - Vendor Webcast WHEN:   ON DEMAND SPEAKER:   Larry LaBuda Senior Service Delivery Analyst, Diversified Software SPONSOR:   Diversified Software   Invest or Migrate? How Web Services Enable the Future of the Mainframe WHEN:   ON DEMAND SPEAKER:   Jody Hunt Senior Product Marketing Manager, IONA Technologies SPONSOR:   IONA Technologies   > VIEW ALL WEBCASTS MORE FROM SEARCH390.COM FEATURED EXPERT: Application development [Tom Ross, Software Engineer, IBM] 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. NEWS: Sun's new pricing model: More bang for a buck? Sun's latest pricing model is clever, but after all the numbers are worked out, can it stack up against other utility-based offerings from rivals IBM, Oracle and HP? Are data center managers ready for this new way of calculating the cost of computing power? ADVICE: COBOL 85 vs. VS COBOL II A Search390.com user asked Tom Ross, our application development expert: What is difference between COBOL 85 and VS COBOL II? Shall I use VS COBOL II for microcomputer applications? ADVICE: Is moving a seven-digit receiver to a six-digit one OK? A Search390.com user asked Tom Ross, our application development expert: I would like to know if there will be any problems if we move from 9(7)comp-3 to 9(6) comp-3. 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