=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SEARCH400 | Today's news June 26, 2002
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FROM OUR SPONSORS: Research on Presentation Integration Server Market http://search400.com/r/0,,4230,00.htm?jacada Lower EDI VAN bills - exchange secure transactions on the Internet http://search400.com/r/0,,4231,00.htm?trailblazersystems =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. FEATURES AND TOP STORIES - Featured Topic: Books for iSeries pros - News: Out-of-office-out-of-control - News: Buggy software costs nearly $60B annually - Expert Advice: ERP package training - Forum Advice: iSeries CPU utilization 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Expert Profile: Pascal Jacquemain, DB2/400 & DB2 UDB expert - Current Poll: Will iSeries skills still be in demand? - Tips Exchange: Win a portable lie detector - Featured Book: iSeries and AS/400 APIs at Work - Best Web Links: Hospital IT rescues docs' data project - The Missing Link: Five-year-old wins MS proficiency cert ______________________________________________________________ *************** SPONSORED BY Jacada ******************* Research on Presentation Integration Server Market Many changes have occurred in the presentation integration server market, according to Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant research. Jacada is positioned in the leader quadrant for the fifth year in a row. This is important research for anyone planning presentation integration server projects. View the report courtesy of Jacada at http://search400.com/r/0,,4230,00.htm?jacada ****************************************************************** BOOKS FOR ISERIES PROS | Search400 Featured Topic OK, these aren't what you'd consider beach-reading material. But what better time than the doldrums of summer to sharpen your skills? We've gathered 30 iSeries-specific books to help get you started. >> CLICK for current Featured Topic... http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid3_gci833839,00.html >> CLICK for previous Featured Topics... http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopics/0,290043,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OTHER STORIES In addition to the headlines below, others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://search400.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid3,00.html OUT-OF-OFFICE-OUT-OF-CONTROL | News: SearchDomino For this senior systems engineer, a fairly general out-of-office mail task turned into an out-of-control nightmare when she was trying to help an end user before he left for vacation. "Kim" spent countless hours trying to recoup from this mess and regaining her anonymity. http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci834677,00.html BUGGY SOFTWARE COSTS NEARLY $60B ANNUALLY | News: Computerworld A new survey found that software bugs are costing the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion each year, and it's users, developers and vendors that pay the price. But improvements in testing could reduce that cost by about a third , the report says. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ADDITIONAL NEWS HEADLINES All headlines above and below are available on our news page >> Full Stories: http://search400.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid3,00.html -- SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES GAIN ACCEPTANCE (Source: The Four Hundred) -- SUN, IBM ADD TO WEB SERVICES ARSENAL (Source: ZDNet) -- ANTIVIRUS PRODUCTS PROVIDE SECURITY CUSHION (Source: SearchSecurity) http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci835212,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ERP PACKAGE TRAINING | Expert Advice: Search400 Dear Ask the Expert, I see a lot of jobs for ERP. What is the easiest way to learn a package like JDE, MAPICS or Movex? Search400 career expert Vic Sbrega offers some advice. >> Click here to read the full expert Q & A... http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid477839_tax284944,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ISERIES CPU UTILIZATION | FORUM Advice: Search400 One user writes, "The iSeries system for my company showed a total CPU utilization of 51% for a given interval. The collected performance data displayed a breakdown of 11% interactive, and 55% Batch. Has anyone else experienced this type of reporting where the total CPU utilization is less than one of the two fields? If so, what might be a possible cause and what is the best place to look to isolate this anomaly?" Do you have any suggestions? >> Click here to respond this post... http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/610 ______________________________________________________________ *************** SPONSORED BY TrailBlazer Systems ************** WHY DO OVER 1,400 CUSTOMERS USE ZMOD FTP from TrailBlazer Systems? Because our AS/400 FTP offers: recovery WITHIN your FTP session; encryption; data bridging; MONMSG on ANY FTP command; data encryption using PGP, S/MIME, SSL, SSH and TLS; data formatting (DDS <=> XML, CSV) and EDI Interfacing...and no one else does. To request a FREE trial, call (770) 850-6966 or visit: http://search400.com/r/0,,4231,00.htm?trailblazersystems ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT FEATURES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- EXPERT PROFILE | Pascal Jacquemain, DB2/400 & DB2 UDB expert Pascal Jacquemain is an analyst/programmer at Gulliver Travel in London. Prior to that, he worked at TRW automotive products in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and as an iSeries 400 instructor at Sierra Training, also in London. He got his start in programming when he was 17 and working at Unilog, a software house in Paris. There he was trained on S/36 and S/38. He left Unilog after two years but continued working in France, using RPG/400, RPG/IV, SQL (including embedded) and OPNQRYF. Three years later he moved to the United Kingdom, where he currently works and lives. "Wherever I worked, I tried to complement my knowledge of the iSeries," Pascal says. "This enabled me to learn a lot about several subjects, not just programming but also performance and other system administration tasks." Pascal's happy to answer your DB2/400 or DB2 UDB-related questions. >> CLICK HERE TO ASK Pascal a question... http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid3_tax285216,00.html >> CLICK HERE TO READ recent Q&As... http://search400.techtarget.com/ateAnswers/0,289620,sid3_tax285216,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL | Search400 Reader Survey Are you concerned that IBM's eServer consolidation strategy will decrease the demand for iSeries skills? >> Cast your Vote: http://www.search400.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WIN A PORTABLE LIE DETECTOR | Submit your Tip to Win This is the last week to try to win a portable lie detector. Find out who's lying to you and who's not. The first-ever portable lie detector analyzes any voice on the phone or in person. Send in your tip today -- you could be our next winner. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://www.search400.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid3_prz826588_cts826578,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK'S FEATURED BOOK | search400's Bookstore Title: iSeries and AS/400 APIs at Work Author: Doug Pence and Ron Hawkins Here is your guide to mastering hundreds of new APIs available on the iSeries and AS/400 to effectively solve business problems. http://www.digitalguru.com/DigitalGuru/product_detail.asp?catalog_name=Books&product_id=1583470220&partner_id=55 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOSPITAL IT RESCUES DOCS' DATA PROJECT | SearchEBusiness When a medical consortium split, St. Luke's Hospital was left to handle its own IT resources. Its director of information systems told SearchEBusiness how his group overcame obstacles to offer its staff a unified view of patient information. http://searchebusiness.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci834619,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | Five-year-old wins MS proficiency cert Remember the 7-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip who earned his Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certificate? Well, he's been "out-prodigied." A boy in Thailand just grabbed his MOUS. He's all of 5, an age when the only kind of MOUS most kids care about is the one who has a dog named Pluto. And now the inevitable question: Why? Does he WANT to get locked in a locker at school? "My father told me that if I passed the exam, I would get a new bicycle," he told a Bangkok newspaper. Something tells me this kid doesn't still need his training wheels. Source: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/25874.html >> RECENT MISSING LINK stories you may enjoy: http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax292189,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ *********************SEARCH400 CONTACTS**************************** MICHELLE DAVIDSON, site editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your story ideas and best practices. KATE EVANS-CORREIA, senior news editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your product announcements and poll ideas. DEBRA TART, assistant editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your tips and Best Web Links. GABRIELLE DERUSSY (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. _______________________________________________________ **********************ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER************ Created by TechTarget (http://www.techtarget.com) TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved. 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