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January 06, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the Editor: IBM's big push >> Featured Topic: Top admin tips of 2002 >> Expert Technical Advice: * Featured expert: Ken Graap, backup and recovery * Converting DeskWorks -- without the pain * Try this CUCFILSIZ utility to review file sizes in iSeries libraries >> Site Highlights: * 10 predictions for 2003 * New Tip of the Month contest * Tip winners from 2002  From the Editor: by Kate Evans-Correia, senior news editor IBM's big push IBM is pushing its computing on-demand initiative big time. Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems are pushing hard, too. And why not? Analysts say on-demand computing, a strategy intended to deliver computing resources the way a power utility doles out electricity, is likely to be the most significant change to back-end IT infrastructure in recent history. On-demand computing, or organic computing as some experts call it, is the integration of users end-to-end across the company with key partners, suppliers and customers. Computing on-demand includes today's most promising technologies: Web services, open standards, grid computing and self-healing systems. Big Blue said it will spend billions to deliver on-demand computing. Much of that includes significant marketing and sales education, acquisitions, R&D, hosting facilities, and on-demand design centers to let customers test out the new concepts. Although IBM isn't the leader of the pack when it comes to on-demand computing, it is getting plenty of play. Throwing $10 billion on an "initiative" will get you decent media coverage. You get extra coverage for having your recently crowned CEO deliver the message. Clearly, on-demand computing was IBM's most ambitious strategy announcement in 2002. IBM has already brought products with on-demand capabilities to market such as WebSphere Integration, a new version of Lotus Sametime, an instant messaging and collaborative applications suite and DB2, IBM's database suite. It has made major acquisitions, such as Rational, that will be added into its on-demand computing fold. IBM said recently that it expects customers will begin implementing technology behind its new on-demand computing initiative in the first quarter. Will you be one of those users? If you are, let us know what product or products you've implemented or have already implemented. Why did you do it? If you haven't, are there specific reasons why? Is it money? Does your department have no need? Overall, what is your outlook on computing on-demand? Do you see it as the next major change in IT infrastructure? E-mail me with your comments at Kate [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then take our poll.  Featured Topic: Top admin tips of 2002 by Deb Tart, assistant site editor Is one of your New Year's resolutions to enhance your admin knowledge? Let us help. These are the top administrator tips for 2002 based on your ratings. Not only are they popular, but several also made it into our Hall of Fame. Below are the bottom 5 tips; click over to see what the top 5 are. 10. Readers sound off about manual's missing chapter 9. Backup expert Tom Huntington answers users' questions 8. Where to put a firewall when using partitions 7. Get more with system request 6. Make sure your back up is complete Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured expert: Ken Graap, senior AS/400e system administrator, Northwest Natural Gas Category: Backup and recovery Backups a bother? Ken can lend a hand. View all Ken's responses or submit a question of your own This Week: In the forums >> Converting DeskWorks -- without the pain "Rguilmette" writes, "How can I copy a DeskWorks spreadsheet to a PC in a format that MS Excel can read? I've tried using the data-transfer utility in CA with the data option set to "Biff4", but the output files are still unreadable." Thankfully, John Brandt and Bob Fish were on hand to offer some advice. >> Pulling off an entire system save "Darpan9" runs an entire system backup from SAVE menu option 21 on his 720 box. When backing up the user libraries, he needs to omit around 100 libraries -- which have to be entered manually. He wonders if there is a way to pre-define this list or customize the command. Quite a few members responded. Check out what they had to say. >> Apache, WebSphere and POST Ron Shah is running Apache 2.0.39 and WebSphere. According to Ron, the developer who is doing the testing indicates that the first time he tries to do a POST, it works only if he precedes with a GET. The request is coming into the HTTP server and then goes into WebSphere. Ron is not defining any limit except directives in. This is working with the original HTTP server. Do you understand what's going on? If so, Ron could use your help. Tip of the Week: Try this CUCFILSIZ utility to review file sizes in iSeries libraries Rather than going through pages and pages of a spool file to find certain file sizes, you can use this utility written by Search400.com expert Dwight Beech. He says it's even easier and faster than using option F17 while working with libraries within PDM. >> Read the full tip  Site Highlights 10 predictions for 2003 TechTarget Editor-in-Chief Paul Gillin offers his 10 predictions for 2003. Read what he says about more wireless wonders, a surge in tech spending, XML excitement, another mega-merger on the scale of HP-Compaq and more. Read more New Tip of the Month contest Send in a tech tip for a chance to win a handheld color TV with a 2.5-in. TFT enhanced active matrix LCD screen. This color TV features an LCD screen that uses the same innovative technology as the ultra-sharp monitors on new laptops. Check it out and submit a tip Tip winners from 2002 Check out the best tips from 2002 Each month we award prizes to members for their tech tips. Some are short but effective, some are highly detailed, and some have you saying, "Wow! You can really do that?" Take a look at the top tips from 2002. FREE E-MAIL SERVICES Select newsletters you would like to receive from the list below. Administrator Tips Programmer Tips Security Tip Email:     Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription. New poll What's your take on the economic outlook for the new year? 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