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Notes from twenty years in the field

Working notes from real z/OS engagements — Endevor-to-Git migrations, DBB builds, IDz performance, code pages, and mainframe CI/CD. The same knowledge we bring to yours.

i+p=POWER

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At the Rational Conference last week, I found out that IBM is once again rebranding the iSeries. Actually, they are merging the hardware branding with System p. It only makes sense as the hardware has mostly been identical coming off the assembly line. Now you have one hardware line, but many choices as to what … Read more

Good upcoming webcast: WAS and Jython

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Have you ever wanted to deploy an application with certain parameters without having to click through all the web pages in the Integrated Console? Think redeploying an application after debugging. If you have miss one of the settings, you’ll have to redeploy it all over again. Ever wanted to set up multiple WAS machines identically? … Read more

The price and size of storage

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I got a spam email from NewEgg the other day offering a 2GB SD card for under $10. It really amazes me just how cheap storage is these days, and how small it is getting. My first computer in 1994 cost me a little over $2000 (on an 18% interest credit card – thank you … Read more

Blackberry Lust

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Figures… I buy my Curve (and had to pay full price since I;m a year away from my renewal), and RIM announced the new Blackberry Bold. On top of it all, their building a tool to pull in music from iTunes onto the Blackberry. Just damn. The new tool would be very handy for those … Read more

Goodbye 1998. Hello 2008

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I got my Blackberry Curve yesterday, and spent much time last night playing around with it. I finally feel like I’ve got a PDA that I can depend on rather than archaic brick that only syncs when I manually copy data over. Verizon finally got their version this month, I ordered mine the first day … Read more

Can’t wait – the Curve comes to Verizon

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Ever since going out on my own and starting my own business, I’ve been on the Palm Treo, with the Palm OS. Once upon a time, a Palm was a dandy gadget. It was top of the pack in productivity and features. Have had a handful over the years (pun intended). However, this is 2008, … Read more