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Published by Search400.com   March 18, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail   Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  PeopleSoft follows through on JDE product enhancements pledge >>  NEWS:  Telecoms call on IBM blades for ailing infrastructures >>  EXPERT WEBCAST:  Honey, I shrunk my backup/recovery windows >>  THE MISSING LINK:  'Just play along Ma' -- hackers rig survey  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY PeopleSoft follows through on JDE product enhancements pledge  (SearchCRM.com) PeopleSoft's new enhancements to its J.D. Edwards product lines is good news to users and analysts, but the changes won't necessarily entice new users to move onto EnterpriseOne or World. More on this topic: >  JDE acquisition concerns could fizzle for users >  PeopleSoft, JDE execs strategize on merger, despite Oracle takeover bid SPONSORED BY:  Search400.com Product and Vendor Guide The Buyers guide is one of the most comprehensive directories of vendor and product information on the Web. It covers a wide range of areas for your research needs, including Application Dev, E-Commerce Solutions, Security and more. Simply search by topic, company name or keyword and you have access to complete vendor and important product information without having to comb through multiple sites. Click Here! NEWS Telecoms call on IBM blades for ailing infrastructures (Search390.com) IBM has targeted the telecommunications industry as the next hot market for blade servers. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   >  Industry anticipates delivery of Power 5 iSeries server (The Four Hundred)   >  Can iSeries users be lured by Microsoft BizTalk server? (iSeries Network)   VIEW ALL NEWS AND TOP STORIES  Announcements & Links   FORUM ADVICE Creating a CL using API "Jaws" writes, "I need to create a CL to use API QMHRCVM and to CHGUSRPRF. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?" Thankfully, "Chipster" was able to offer some help. >>  View or participate in this discussion thread EXPERT ADVICE Changing the status of a spool file Ken Graap, OS/400 advice Dear Ken, How can I change the status of a spool file from ready (rdy) to saved (sav) without physical printing? >>  View Ken's response EXPERT PROFILE Kent Milligan, DB2/400 & DB2 UDB expert Kent Milligan is an iSeries technology specialist in PartnerWorld for Developers, iSeries, IBM. Kent spent the first eight years of his IBM career as a member of the DB2 development group in Rochester. He speaks and writes regularly about relational database topics. So if you have a question, he's your man. >>  Ask Kent a question or read recent Q&As EXPERT WEBCAST Honey, I shrunk my backup/recovery windows Date: Wednesday, March 31, 9 a.m. EST (14:00 GMT) Speaker: Deb Saugen, technical owner of iSeries 400 and AS/400 backup and recovery in the Rochester, Minn., development lab Join us as backup & recovery guru Deb Saugen discusses new iSeries hardware and tape technology in combination with software enhancements in BRMS using Concurrent and Parallel Saves, Save-while-active and Online Lotus Server Backups are resulting in huge reductions to backup/recovery windows. Learn how you, too, can dramatically shrink your backup and recovery windows. >>  Pre-register today USER POLL Cast your vote Do you have plans in the near future to become certified in WebSphere Portal v5? >>  Sound off! What do you think about this poll? Let us know READER SURVEY State of the Data Center Is there a greater Windows presence in your data center? Will Linux play a bigger role? Are you considering on-demand technologies? Your answers to those questions and a few more will give you and your peers in the data center management community a view of some of the technologies and issues that may impact your job. Help us determine how data centers like yours are faring. >>  Take the survey now THE MISSING LINK 'Just play along Ma' -- hackers rig survey OK, so maybe what these people did was wrong, but you have to give them points for ingenuity. At least a dozen employees of Southern California Edison hacked into the utility's customer database and changed a few phone numbers. They weren't just any numbers -- they were the numbers of people who were to be called for a customer satisfaction survey. So whom did the pollsters end up calling? The hackers' friends and family, which explains why the electric company got nothing but glowing reviews. Recent missing link stories you may enjoy. Update your subscriptions Select newsletters you would like to receive from the list below. Security Tip Programmer Tips Administrator Tips E-mail    Not a member? 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