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Tracing MVS COBOL: The Management of Application Failure Recovery in the Production Environment

Calculating the cost of downtime is often a frightening wake up call to the business bottom line. And while the average ABEND recovery time costs up to five hours of work, executives should be advocating more efficient, proactive solutions.

Y2K: Where Should Companies Be?

At this point in the game, it’s crunch time. These 21 points addressed by organizations that are completing their Year 2000 programs will let you know where you rank in the league.

Year 2000 Desktop Action Plan

The sinking feeling you had when you realized that the Year 2000 was a real threat may be back -- because if you didn’t include your desktop computers in your efforts to comply with Y2K, resting will not be an option. However, there are some things you can do between now and the end of December to minimize the impact of the Year 2000 on the desktop. And here’s an action plan that will help.

Nirvana Revisited: Data Access in a Heterogeneous Environment

As enterprises grow, the need for cross-platform application testing and Web-based data migration becomes more urgent. Identifying issues associated with information management and coordination is the first step to the inner peace associated with attaining data Nirvana.



Innovation Outsourcing: Driving Transition Through Partnerships

Innovation outsourcing links efficiency with costs, while establishing and promoting outsourcing as an integral part of a company’s business.

A Case for Dynamically Allocated Memory

The theoretical and the real advantages and techniques of using dynamic allocation are discussed.

May Inside IBM

Netfinity Certified for 8-Node Configs on Oracle8i, IBM/EMC’s New Alliance, Driving EAI Standards, Single-Vendor Networking Solution, Global File Sharing.

Enterprise Application Integration: Building an Infrastructure to Support Rapid Business Change

With a strategic enterprise application integration infrastructure in place, organizations can finally get a comprehensive look at their corporate data – both operational and informational – across all applications, databases and systems, from legacy to ERP.

Going Mobile: Mobile Agents Drive Home the Next Generation of Middleware?

By giving “wheels” to conventional middleware, mobile agents have created a new class of intelligent, self-directed agents able to remotely execute processors at the data source and feed information to users. Even better, they manage to do it while reducing network overhead.

Productivity Ain’t Cheap: Exploring the Hidden Costs of Data Warehousing

How to avoid those expenses that seem to sneak up on you before, during and after completion of your data warehousing project are examined.

Mellon Banks on Mining

Mellon Bank looks to enhance its complex customer service relationships through IBM’s Intelligent Miner for Data.