Catch Up on the Issues

Here are summaries of some of the issues that have been tossed out, tossed up, and then nailed down!

99 SOA for z/OS
98 Practical SOHO Networking: Vatic Technologies "Exposes" Itself to the Internet.
97 Refreshing Virtual Tape Libraries
96 Converting Archive/Backup Management Systems - User Experience (CA-ASM2, CA-Disk, DFSMShsm, FDR/ABR)
95 Myths, Mistakes and Outright Lies (When it comes to network security)
94 VBAMazing!
93 History and Evolution of IBM Mainframes
92 Don's Diatribe IV -- Issues in IT that still keep me up at night
91 Enterprise Server Consolidation
90 A Single-instruction computer
89 IBM System z9 Announcements
88 Intelligent archiving
87 Business Communications for the Mature Professional
86 Defending the End User (even from themselves!)
85 Customer Perspectives: ILM Koolaid or Chicken Soup?
84 Don's Diatribe II -- Issues in IT that still keep me up at night
83 IBM System z9, z/OS 1.7 and z/VM 5.2 Update
82 Technology Advances in the Storage Arena but no chicken soup
81 Business Communication: Letters, Resumes and Business Cards
80 Virtual Infrastructure
79 Totally Transparent and Controlled Network Security Solution
78 Infrastructure Architecture: Who, What, Why, When, and How
77 DFSMSrmm Report Dialog - RMM has a Report Writer!
76 DragonFly Web server and capture utilities
75 Practical SOHO Networking - Reprise
74 A brief overview of z/XDC, a very powerful object code debugging tool
73 Grid Technologies as an enabler to IBM's On Demand Operating Environment
72 zSeries Operating Systems Update: z/OS, z/VM and Linux on zSeries
71 Linux implementation on S/390 and zSeries
70 How e-statements are used
69 Don's Diatribe - Issues in IT that keep me up at night
68 The Future of NaSPA Ontario
67 Training with ProTech
66 Liberty Mutual "Group Savings Plus"
65 Future directions in IBM Mainframe Storage Reporting
64 PrimePower - Solaris Server
63 Business Continuity Planning
62 Formal Project Management for Information Technology Projects
61 Data Loss and Recovery
60 PortAuthority
59 The Pen _is_ Mightier than the Sword - Keeping your users under control without hurting them
58 Transforming documents to PDF
57 Practical SOHO Networking
56 Virtual Tape and Your Business
55 Enablement For System/390 - Running s/390 code on Intel Platforms
54 Cost Effective SQL Access to Historical Data
53 Performance monitoring: Web enablement
52 Introducing the CBT CD
51 Leadership Award - Mike Baldwin
50 Disaster Recovery Planning
49 Getting Control of your Data Centre
48 Intelligent Resource Director and Workload Pricing
47 Linear Tape Open (LTO) Architecture and IBM LTO Product Overview
46 Web enablement of OS/390 at CDS
45 Tivoli TSM
44 Tivoli SAN Solutions
43 Sending email from OS/390 to the Internet/Intranet
42 Data Editors - a brief comparison
41 ERP on S/390
40 Linux on S/390
39 Migrating Data to Virtual and High Capacity Tape
38 Architecting Computer Capacity Analysis as a Client/Server Application [... the shoemaker's children kick back ... ]
37 Putting e-business to Work
36 Enterprise Application Management
35 CBT Tape: User Experiences
34 CBT Tapes
33 Tape Management by IBM
32 Open System Adapter and OSA/SF
31 S/390 Integrated Server
30 Web Application and Data Enablement on OS/390
29 Parallel Sysplex
28 Technical Overview of MQSeries
27 Real-Time Tape Utility - TelTape/390
26 Compuware Products
25 INFO/MAN Futures
24 Java: Just Another Programming Language? What Can We Use It For?
23 Virtual Tape Servers generation 2
22 Implementing DFSMS (A Methodology and User Experiences)
21 Java Overview
20 CBT Tapes
19 Windows 98: What and Why
18 S/390: Open for E-Business
17 CEDAR - Get your CICS on the Web
16 Unexplored Applications of the Internet
15 Save 20% and more on DASD
14 How to Get what you Want (with Microsoft PowerPoint)
13 Delivery of MVS reports over Intranets, Extranets and the Internet
12 Backup UNIX using StorageTek silos
11 Enhancing the P/390
10 User experiences with the IBM P/390
9 Year 2000 Update
8 32 bit operating systems
7 High Performance Printing
6 History of Printing
5 StorageTek Redwood SD-3 Tape Technology
4 Early User experiences with MAGSTAR
3 How to do Technical Training
2 MVS Open Edition: HFS Storage Management
1 Multi-OS development and test environment

SOA for z/OS

This session presented an overview of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and outlined how the existing and new z/OS applications can support the SOA framework directly via Web Services. It highlighted several integration scenarios for direct Web Service access to CICS, IMS and DB2 applications and data.

Vaclav Honsa, Senior Consultant Instructor and Enterprise Application Integration Specialist, AMDEX Computing Corporation. July 19, 2007

Practical SOHO Networking: Vatic Technologies "Exposes" Itself to the Internet.

This presentation described the steps involved in growing a SOHO local network. The presentation briefly reprised some materials presented in previous "Practical SOHO Networking" presentations and went on to show how we have enabled public internet access to resources connected to Vatic Technologies' LAN.

Don Melton is Senior Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited. Don's career in the IT industry has spanned many fields including the IT service provider, education, transportation, financial, and small business sectors. He has also filled many diverse roles; working at various times as a systems programmer, capacity planner, performance analyst, IT manager, and enterprise architect. Since 1997 Don has been providing IT consulting services (through Vatic Technologies) to guide businesses in developing an IT vision and in their selection and use of IT solutions to deliver to that vision July 19, 2007

Refreshing Virtual Tape Libraries
IBM mainframes have had virtual tape systems for 10 years now, and today they are in use in thousands of data centres. This session updated us on the reasons to upgrade virtual tape, the hardware and media alternatives available today, and some methods to achieve the benefits of technology refresh.
Mike Baldwin is President of Cartagena Software Limited, developer of the TelTape for z/OS tool for tape data migration. Mike is experienced as a systems programmer, data centre manager, consultant, ISV product manager, and ISV owner with 28 years in the industry. He has previously presented to NaSPA Ontario, COUG, and ESP User's Conference. Mike is also a member of the steering committee for the FLEX-ES Activists group. May 17, 2007

Converting Archive/Backup Management Systems - User Experience (CA-ASM2, CA-Disk, DFSMShsm, FDR/ABR)

The speaker presented a product-agnostic view of DASD Management System conversion, having completed conversions from DMS/OS (CA-Disk) to DFSMShsm, CA-ASM2 to DFSMShsm, CADisk to FDR/ABR, and DFSMShsm to FDR/ABR. This presentation had been updated with new information regarding backup conversion. This is an encore presentation from SHARE108 in Tampa, FL.
Thomas Conley is President/CEO of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Home of Dynamic ISPF, Specializing in IBM mainframe and PC systems. Tom has presented at IBM z/OS Expo, SHARE, and NaSPA Ontario. He is Requirements Coordinator for the ISPF Project at SHARE. May 17, 2007

Myths, Mistakes and Outright Lies (When it comes to network security)

When you build a network security architecture, by design it must evolve and contribute to its own support. Are you making the most of your security architecture? Is your policy evolved to what the technology can do today? Is your policy evolved to what the threats are today? When network security policy, technology and user requirements collide, the end result does not always equal the intent. So many factors affect our choices when it comes to security investment, media, news, mailing lists, all have a new threat waiting to leap upon us, taking down our systems, creating panic. Let’s explore the truths of how much danger you are really in, and how much effort have you put into protecting your network.
Kellman Meghu is the Manager of Security Engineers in Canada for Check Point Software Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. His background includes 10 years of experience studying attacks, application protection and network-based security. He has delivered presentations at private corporate focused events as well as public events including SMB World 2005, CMG Canada, Hurricane Labs Conference, and Hackerfest 2005. Mar. 15, 2007

VBAMazing!

Chris Greaves showed us how Microsoft office should have been written. In particular his perception revealed a user-oriented approach to desktop computing. And it all runs in Microsoft Word! Members who brought their laptops followed Chris as he ran the demonstration after installing a free copy of the application software on their own machines. Memory Key copies were made.

One-time language designer, compiler-writer, now gainfully employed in "Changing The Way People Think". For several years in the early seventies Chris worked as a team leader at the Software Development Centre in Pooraka, Adelaide, South Australia under the guidance of Dr. Robert S. Northcote. Mar. 15, 2007

History and Evolution of IBM Mainframes

This presentation covered the history of IBM mainframes from the IBM 701 through IBM S/360 to the IBM System z9. The evolution of OS/360 to z/OS and CP/67 to z/VM was also covered (with honorable mention of DOS/360 to z/VSE and ACP to z/TCP).

Jim is the Advocate for Linux, Open Source, and Virtualization at IBM Canada. The speaker has worked for IBM for over 32 years including stints as an MVT, VM/370 and DOS/VS systems programmer, IMS application developer and product manager for VM, VSE and Linux for IBM Americas. Today Jim is responsible for all the System z operating systems for IBM Canada. As a result, he has 'hands-on' experience with most of IBM's mainframes over that period. Nov. 16, 2006

Don's Diatribe IV -- Issues in IT that still keep me up at night

As IT professionals we all acknowledge that our industry is rife with change. In this session the leader:

• presented some of the recent technology changes that he thinks are significant
• provided his view of the issues around each of the changes
• invited the audience to comment, discuss, debate each of them

Don Melton is a Senior Consultant with Vatic Technologies Limited. Don has spent over a quarter of a century working in the IT industry. During his career he has worked in many fields including the IT service provider, education, transportation, financial, and small business sectors. He regularly scans the industry press and professional journals to stay abreast of the rapidly changing computing landscape. For the past 10 years Don has been providing IT consulting services (through Vatic Technologies) to support businesses in their use of IT solutions. Don has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Toronto Engineering Science program where he specialized in electronics and computer engineering. Sept. 21, 2006

Enterprise Server Consolidation

Over the past 5 years and more than 2,000 customer studies, we have learned that average Windows server utilization is approximately 6.8% IBM has developed a toolset which will help us to profile and solution a customer's environment to consolidate and optimize utilization of their servers. The tools can profile Windows, Linux, UNIX, and NetWare servers. A raffle was held - the winner received a free one-day utilization analysis for up to 300 servers.
Tom Vezina is IBM System x SCON Lead for the Americas. Sept. 21, 2006

A Single-instruction computer
Chris Greaves ratched us all down a notch and taught us how to write a hybrid FORTRAN/APL interpreter for a single instruction computer. RISC was never this risky! We learned how simple a hardware implementation can be, and how easy it is to custom-design a language to any end-user application. Members brought a pad of paper and a pencil, to excitedly write the interpreter themselves. Not a difficult task, as there is only one machine instruction to be employed anyway.
Chris Greaves is a one-time language designer, compiler-writer, now gainfully employed in "Changing The Way People Think". For several years in the early seventies Chris worked as a team leader at ICL's Software Development Centre in Pooraka, Adelaide, South Australia under the guidance of Dr. Robert S. Northcote. July 27, 2006

IBM System z9 Announcements
On April 27th 2006, IBM announced enhancements to the System z9 family of processors and to z/VM Version 5.2. Jim provided an overview of these and other recent announcements. Jim's page includes the presentation.
Jim Elliott is Advocate, Infrastructure Solutions, and Manager, System z Operating Systems, with IBM Canada Ltd. May 18, 2006

Intelligent archiving
A discussion around the business drivers and benefits for intelligent archiving for open systems. The session included a look at how IntelliStore can accomplish intelligent archiving.
View presentation Kevin Mann has worked in the storage industry for 24 years, and is ILMS Specialist with Sun Microsystems. May 18, 2006

Business Communications for the Mature Professional
Change the way you think about proposals, resumes, revenue-generating business letters, and the real purpose of business cards.
Chris Greaves is Trainer; Entrepreneur; Thinker. He has delivered some of the most thought-provoking NaSPA Ontario sessions. Mar. 16, 2006

Defending the End User (even from themselves!)
The End User carries the identity of any organization in their laptop, and in the files they might take home at night. Is it possible to be assured all this data is safe, wherever it might be? There must be a cost in performance, people time, and productivity to enable a complete endpoint security that precludes some people from doing anything, and risk impeding business. What is the cost of enabling business applications safely in today's market?
Kellman Meghu is the Manager of Security Engineers in Canada for Check Point Software Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. His background includes 10 years of experience studying attacks, application protection and network-based security. He has delivered presentations at private corporate focused events as well as public events including SMB World 2005, CMG Canada, Hurricane Labs Conference, and most recently, Hackerfest 2005. Mar. 16, 2006

Customer Perspectives: ILM Koolaid or Chicken Soup?
General confusion about what ILM is still prevails. What it is depends on who you ask and what products people are trying to sell you at the time. This discussion presented some customer perspectives, clarified industry buzz words and offered some well informed opinion on approach and organizational roles and responsibilities.
Laurence Whittaker is Supervisor, Enterprise Storage Management with Hudson's Bay Company; President, Toronto Storage Networking User Group; Member, SNIA End User Council Governing Board. Kelly McIsaac is a Records Management Analyst with Hudson's Bay Company. Nov. 24, 2005

Don's Diatribe II -- Issues in IT that still keep me up at night
As IT professionals we all acknowledge that our industry is rife with change. In this session we: presented some of the recent technology changes that are significant, provided a view of the issues around each of the changes, and the audience commented, discussed, and debated each of them.
Don Melton, Senior Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited, has spent over a quarter of a century working in the IT industry. During his career he has worked in many fields including the IT service provider, education, transportation, financial, and small business sectors. He regularly scans the industry press and professional journals to stay abreast of the rapidly changing computing landscape. For the last 7 years Don has been providing IT consulting services to support businesses in their use of IT solutions. Sept. 15, 2005

IBM System z9, z/OS 1.7 and z/VM 5.2 Update
The IBM System z9 109 (z9-109) is the ninth generation of IBM CMOS mainframes. With 1-54 configurable processors running at 1.7GHz, enhanced I/O bandwidth, up to 512GB of memory and faster cryptography support provides almost twice the capacity of the largest z990 with processors running approximately 35% faster. Combined with z/OS 1.7 and z/VM 5.2 this system is the ultimate collaborative processing machine.
Jim Elliott, Advocate - Infrastructure Solutions and Manager - System z9 and zSeries Operating Systems for IBM Canada. Home page Sept. 15, 2005

Technology Advances in the Storage Arena but no chicken soup
Recent technology advances in the storage and SAN arena such as Storage LPAR's, Storage Virtualization, fabric based disk connectivity, quantum leaps in S/390 device addressability, SAN switch partitioning, etc. are providing new abilities and opportunities for storage infrastructure solutions. This presentation reviewed the technology change in these areas and looked at how IBM is positioning its products to provide these new features and functions to address the ever expanding needs in the storage arena.
Bill Nevill is a Certified Consulting I. T. Specialist with IBM Canada Storage group. May 19, 2005

Business Communication: Letters, Resumes and Business Cards
We learned how to approach letters that write themselves and bring us money. Not scams, but honest business dealings, trading our passions and skills for cash. We learned how to approach resume-writing in a manner that has prospective employers write our resumes for us in a manner that will appeal directly to their senses. We will change our business cards to be the ones that stand out, get attention, and cause people to telephone us, asking us to accept money in exchange for our skills.
Chris Greaves is a Lecturer in Professional Business Communications at George Brown College. May 19, 2005

Virtual Infrastructure
The presentation focussed on the VMware Virtual Infrastructure and the components of this infrastructure. We examined the architecture of these various components and how they are combined to build a Virtual Infrastructure. A part of the session outlined the VMware product lines and some of the features and functionality found within them and how they can be applied to various solutions.
Michael Burnett is a Senior Systems Engineer with vmware. Mar. 17, 2005

Totally Transparent and Controlled Network Security Solution
Introducing the patent pending technology that detects Malware in real time and generates signatures automatically; How to link desktop security with perimeter defenses to empower the existing firewall and gateway security solutions; Solve the security mystery in "Titan Forensic Lab", including diagnosing, auditing, repairing, and defeating. Provides a comprehensive security lab that helps front end IT security professions to gain control and confidence in dealing with daily security and Malware attacks.
Lixin Lu is CEO of FreeSpace Internet Security Inc. Providing the most transparent and controlled security solution to Front end IT security professionals. Crossfire Enterprise Security is a business partner and re-seller of Free Space Security solutions.View Presentation Jan. 27, 2005

Infrastructure Architecture: Who, What, Why, When, and How
There is a pervasive business challenge today to provide a flexible, scalable, cost-effective infrastructure to support rapidly changing business applications. Infrastructure Architecture provides an overall structure that enables the rapid deployment of well behaved, manageable infrastructure technologies. The Infrastructure Architecture can provide a valuable tool for measuring and managing those technologies. This presentation will: Identify the business benefits that can be realized through the use of architecture; Define "architecture" in the context of IT infrastructure; Suggest some specific architecture "artifacts" that have proven to be of practical benefit; Point out some of the challenges and obstacles that hinder the development and/or use of an architecture.
Don Melton is a senior consultant with Vatic Technologies Limited, a consulting organization that works with its clients to create strategic IT solutions for them. Don has an Engineering degree from University of Toronto and over 25 years experience in the IT industry. He is an active member in the Toronto IT user groups community, as a board member, a speaker, and regular attendee. View Presentation Jan. 27, 2005

DFSMSrmm Report Dialog - RMM has a Report Writer!
Have you ever had trouble getting the information you want from DFSMSrmm? Did you ever wish that DFSMSrmm had a report writer like CA-1's GRW or CA-EARL? Tired of writing your own REXX code to do DFSMSrmm reporting? This session covered the DFSMSrmm Report Writer and how you can use it to get the information you need from DFSMSrmm.Thomas Conley is President/CEO of Pinnacle Consulting Group. This presentation was previously given as Session 3045 at SHARE 100 (Dallas, TX). View presentation Nov. 18, 2004

DragonFly Web server and capture utilities
A demonstration of traditional mainframe interfaces to the web. View a web capture utility allowing the mainframe to surf. How a mainframe application server could economically replace CICS for medium to low traffic scenarios.Kim Tyson is President of Tyson Systems Inc. Nov. 18, 2004

Practical SOHO Networking - Reprise
Modern networking technology is rapidly becoming extremely affordable, while at the same time leaving default configurations extremely vulnerable. An update to the January 2002 presentation of the same name, this session reviewed the network concepts appropriate to SOHO and home environments with emphasis on new technologies (Windows XP SP2, 802.11, VOIP, etc.) and the challenges they present. This session presented real examples of SOHO networks and set-up issues and challenges. Topics included security, performance, configuration, and ISP support experiences.
Don Melton is the senior consultant with Vatic Technologies. Don built and maintains the complete Windows-based IT infrastructure (including Network Infrastructure, Storage Infrastructure, Server Infrastructure, etc.) used at Vatic Technologies. He has leveraged this experience both in setting up infrastructure for SOHO clients of Vatic Technologies, and as architectural "common-ground" in discussions with infrastructure groups of larger clients. Stan Swain is a seasoned "techie" who has developed an interest in home networking. Over the years, he has discovered many approaches that work well for him in terms of establishing, securing and backing up his LAN environment. View slide show Sept. 16, 2004

A brief overview of z/XDC, a very powerful object code debugging tool
For 27 years, Cole Software has offered z/XDC to systems programmers and software developers. z/XDC is a mainframe-based object code/Assembler language debugging tool with some surprising capabilities. z/XDC can be used to work on simple applications that run in the TSO user's own address space. It can also be used in ANOTHER TSO User's address space, in a batch program, in a multitasking program, exits to JES, any vendor product, SVCs and system routines. It's probably the ultimate tool for bringing clarity to the debugging process. Using z/XDC, you can investigate and repair code running under any Request Block, under any Task Control Block, within any address space on the system including the system itself. These capabilities have brought Cole Software a fanatic loyalty among real systems programmers and software developers at nearly every development house in the world. It's customer base may be small, but includes some of the brightest minds on the planet. It's been our pleasure serving this small, but extremely sophisticated user group for so many years. Bob Shimizu has been with Cole Software for 16 years, and in that time he has become the primary product trainer for the z/XDC product. July 15, 2004

Grid Technologies as an enabler to IBM's On Demand Operating Environment
When you hear the words "Grid Computing", most people associate it with specialized applications like High Performance Computing. It may surprise you to know that Grid technologies are moving into commercial enterprises, with companies like IBM promoting this technology. This presentation covered:

• The basic concepts of Grid and OGSA
• Why is IBM interested in Grid Technologies
• Grid as a systems enablement technology to IBM's On Demand Strategy
• Examples of Grid in commercial computing

Gordon Ip is a Consulting Systems Architect with IBM Canada's Systems Group. His role as a pre-sales technical support specialist focuses on architecting systems infrastructure solutions involving multiple IBM server and storage brand (pSeries, zSeries, iSeries, xSeries and TotalStorage) for customers. As a Systems Architect, Gordon is also responsible for articulating the role of IBM servers and storage in IBM's On Demand strategy and subspecializes in Grid technologies as an enabler to the On Demand Operating Environment. May 20, 2004

zSeries Operating Systems Update: z/OS, z/VM and Linux on zSeries
The IBM zSeries mainframe continues to evolve. This session provided an overview of the new function in z/OS version 1.5 and function coming in z/OS version 1.6. An overview of z/VM version 4 and Linux on zSeries was also provided.
Jim Elliott is zSeries Operating Systems Manager, Systems Group, IBM Canada Ltd. ( Bio )
Mar. 25, 2004

Linux implementation on S/390 and zSeries
Guillermo Araujo and Stan Swain of Cybermation described the requirements for Linux and the progression from CD to a running system. They highlighted the hardware, software, network and configuration aspects of deploying SuSe Linux for development use at Cybermation. As a brief addendum, they mentioned the transition from S/390 to zSeries.
Guillermo Araujo is the Unix Network Administrator at Cybermation Inc. in Markham. Stan Swain is the IT/Development Environment Team Leader at Cybermation.
Jan. 15, 2004

How e-statements are used
This session described the many uses of e-statement that have evolved over the past decade. The obvious use of e-statements is for online, Internet presentment. However, e-statements are being used in other diverse areas, such as in EBPP, Content Management, Print Automation and ERP/OLAP applications.
Marian Lewandowski, Marketing Support Manager, Xenos Group Inc. Marian has spoken to conferences, user groups, associations and Fortune 500 companies for more than a decade about the benefits and the technology of e-statements.
View slide show Nov. 27, 2003

Don's Diatribe - Issues in IT that keep me up at night
As IT professionals we all acknowledge that our industry is rife with change. This session presented what Don sees as the most significant recent technology changes and invited comments and discussion from the attendees on each.
Don Melton, Senior Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited, specializing in Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, including capacity planning and performance analysis.
View presentation Nov. 27, 2003

The Future of NaSPA Ontario
The future of NaSPA Ontario requires some hard decisions now. For over a year the Executive has been wrestling with ideas and directions for the user group's future. Hear our proposals and offer your ideas! Examples: Our user group has become large enough we may have to rent meeting space - how do we pay for that? For historical reasons we banned soliciting jobs or candidates - does this make sense now? Why haven't we done a mini-NaSTEC yet? And, can we?
Matt Shakespeare has been President, NaSPA Ontario for more than 12 years. Currently employed as Systems Programmer at Cybermation Inc. Almost 30 years in the Information Technology field. Member of several other technology organisations and special interest groups.
Sept. 18, 2003

Training with ProTech
We learned how ProTech offers flexible and customized training solutions to its clients. With over 300 courses in their catalogue, ranging from Systems Management & Automation to Internet Development, ProTech is able to provide education for various teams within a single organization. Many companies consider ProTech to be a "one stop shop".
Andrea Voss is Sr. Account Manager with ProTech Professional Technical Services Canada, Ltd. Sept. 18, 2003

Liberty Mutual "Group Savings Plus"
Overview of the Group program to all NaSPA Ontario members and their families describing the discounts, value adds, and preferred rates for Auto and Home Insurance.
Darryl F. Arrand, Senior Sales Rep, Liberty Mutual with over 10 yrs. experience in Auto, Home, and Life insurance products. Sept. 18, 2003

Future directions in IBM Mainframe Storage Reporting
A brief review of Storage Administration Workbench as it exists today, followed by a discussion of its future development direction and the technologies IBM is considering going forward.
Louis Hanna, Storage Software Sales Specialist - Software Migration Project Office, IBM Americas Software Group July 17, 2003

PrimePower - Solaris Server
An introduction to Fujitsu's family of Solaris servers. Four reasons why customers choose PrimePower: performance, reliability, scalability, cost of ownership. 100% Solaris compatibility on a more robust platform.
Bob McKillop, Regional Systems Engineer, Fujitsu Technology Solutions Canada Inc. July 17, 2003

Business Continuity Planning
Even with the tragedy of September 11th, business continuity planning hasn't become part of standard operating procedures in many companies. Learn how to create a credible BCP program, with a minimum of effort and money, that will not only please the auditors, but actually work! Graeme S. Jannaway, CBCP CISA, is literally one of the gray-beards in the BCP industry in Canada. This talk was also presented at SACIS Expo 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey on March 25th. Mar. 20, 2003 View Presentation

Formal Project Management for Information Technology Projects (An Oxymoron, or an Idea Whose Time Has Come)
The IT industry has a terrible reputation when it comes to delivering projects successfully. Industry statistics show that approximately 70 percent of all IT projects fail to deliver on at least one of TIME, COST or QUALITY targets. Are you a part of the solution or a part of the problem? Dave Ainger, President and Senior Consultant, Ainger & Associates Inc. Jan. 16, 2003 View Presentation

Data Loss and Recovery
The presentation explored the technical causes of data loss, the physical and logical techniques used in data recovery and what to do and what NOT to do when faced with a data loss emergency. Also discussed are the proactive steps an IT professional can take for the prevention and mitigation of data loss situations. Chris Sorensen, VP Technical Services, and Ron Austin, VP Marketing and Business Development, ActionFront Data Recovery Labs. Jan. 16, 2003 View Presentation

Port Authority
Introducing NetWorth Security Services and overview of the unique PortAuthority™ product which allows you to classify sensitive email, confidential agreements, product information, customer data, credit card numbers and other vital documents and information. PortAuthority accurately and immediately blocks unauthorized redistribution. Rick Burling is V.P. Security Services, NetWorth Security Services Inc. He has 15 years of experience managing IT security. Nov. 21, 2002

The Pen _is_ Mightier than the Sword - Keeping your users under control without hurting them
Programmers (and other users), deliberately or not, often break rules and standards to get themselves better throughput, sometimes interfering with production batch and even online performance. Operations often either hurt the user by cancelling their jobs, or hurt themselves by trying to isolate the offending workload from online and scheduled production, prohibiting the economies of scale offered by a sysplex and the quick redeployment of resources when problems occur. This session demonstrated some of the capabilities ThruPut Manager can bring to bear to keep your users under control and satisfied, without being punitive, and also give operations full control over the use of their resources, using a laptop running OS/390 2.8. Martin Wills has 10 years experience as Senior Systems Engineer, MVS Solutions Inc., and has an additional 24 years experience working with mainframe computers. May 16, 2002

Transforming documents to PDF
Mission critical print applications are often written to take advantage of software which does not lend itself well to presentation. Legacy applications may have been created to create print streams which are very powerful when used with specific print environments, but may not be seamlessly integrated in a web environment. These applications need not be left behind when developing a CRM strategy. We learned about techniques many companies have used to take advantage of print stream transformations to present documents on the web. Many of the advanced capabilities of PDF can be harnessed for putting slick customer-focused solutions in place without expensive application development.
Ernie Crawford, EDP, is President of Crawford Technologies Inc. He has over 18 years of experience with Xerox and AFP print data streams. Mr Crawford has designed and developed software which converts Xerox and AFP print streams into PDF, PostScript, AFP, PCL, XML, HTML and other languages.Mar. 21, 2002 View Presentation

Practical SOHO Networking
With the advent of low-cost broadband access and proliferation of PC's, it is no longer unusual to find a small LAN in the home. Unfortunately, simplicity of "Plug 'N Play" configuration of SOHO LAN components can lead to inefficient and insecure networks. This session presented real examples of SOHO networks and set-up issues and challenges. Topics included security, performance, configuration, and ISP support experiences.
Don Melton, Senior Consultant, Vatic Technologies Stan Swain, Swain Consulting Inc. View SlidesJan. 17, 2002

Virtual Tape and Your Business
More customers are turning to virtual tape to reduce the size of their tape environment and get their batch processing done faster. These and other business advantages translate into a key benefit - reducing the cost of data processing to the business. This session looked at how StorageTek's Virtual Storage Manager and other tape solutions can help customers achieve this key benefit. Straty Demakos,Storage Specialist with StorageTek Canada Inc., is responsible for tape marketing and sales for StorageTek in Canada. Sept. 20, 2001

Enablement For System/390 - Running s/390 code on Intel Platforms
With many older s/390 applications being rehosted to a new O/S, many organizations find themselves with a small number of remaining apps running on under-utilized systems. IBM has had offerings in this space such as 'Multiprise', and now offers Intel-based platforms to provide cost-effective support for these legacy applications. Tom Vezina, Manager, Americas Technical Support, High End 'X' Series; IBM. July 19, 2001

Cost Effective SQL Access to Historical Data
We learned about FileTek's product, StorHouse -- a cost effective data storage/data management solution that provides SQL access to large amounts of detail data residing on a variety of storage media, including RAID, JBOD, optical disk, and magnetic tape. It was shown how StorHouse can be used to optimize and extend existing data warehouse technologies such as DB2, Oracle, and MS SQL Server by offloading historical or inactive data to nearline storage while retaining full transparent access to both online and nearline data via existing SQL-based applications and tools. Majda Pusic is a specialist in information technology with over 20 years experience in delivering data warehouses, decision support systems (DSS) and on-line transaction processing (OLTP) solutions. View Slides July 19, 2001

Performance monitoring: Web enablement
Steve Warner is a Senior Systems Engineer at Candle Corporation , focusing on mainframe products: OMEGAMON II ® , CandleNet Command Center™ (CCC™), and automation. Candle offers a suite of CCC solutions that build and extend on the OMEGAMON II approach. They each provide real-time historical monitoring of system performance focused on the unique needs of the Parallel Sysplex environment, data sharing and new OS/390 workloads, including Sysplex, DB2plex, CICS, IMSplex and UNIX System Services. This technical presentation updated the audience on the new presentation manager for CandleNet Command Center called CandleNet Portal. May 17, 2001

Introducing the CBT CD
Don Melton is Senior Consultant with Vatic Technologies Limited, specializing in Enterprise systems capacity planning and performance analysis. Don has made a valuable addition to his consultant's "toolkit": the capability of reviewing OS/390 modifications and utilities on a PC. The "CBT Utilities" tape is a standard source of OS/390 "freeware", distributed at NaSPA Ontario, SHARE, and other user group meetings world-wide. Recently, the data from the CBT tape, along with a host of other OS/390-related utilities has been made available on CD. In this presentation we reviewed some of the PC-based mainframe tools, and demonstrated techniques for transferring programs to the mainframe. May 17, 2001

Leadership Award
Mike Baldwin of Cartagena Software received a NaSPA Leadership Award "In recognition of [his] contributions to NaSPA & the Ontario NaSPA-affiliated User Group". View plaque See also: pages 36-37 of Technical Support magazine, March 2001. March, 2001

Disaster Recovery Planning
Did you ever think that you could learn enough to implement a disaster recovery program in just under one hour? Starting with risk analysis and ending with testing and maintenance, learn what works and what doesn't, based on over fifteen years of experience. Unique strategies that will assist both the beginner and the experienced planner alike were presented. Graeme Jannaway, Managing Director, Jannaway & Associates; President, Disaster Recovery Information Exchange; Vice-Chair, Disaster Recovery Institute Canada; Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP); Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) View presentation Mar. 15, 2001

Getting Control of your Data Centre
This presentation discussed the issues of controlling batch processing in the Data Centre and gave real examples of how ThruPut Manager achieves this control. It showed how the control of batch is essential not only to batch itself but also to online performance and control and also to the other big control issue, software costs. Martin Wills of MVS Solutions Inc. View presentationMar. 15, 2001

Intelligent Resource Director and Workload Pricing
The new Intelligent Resource Director (IRD) combines the strengths of three industry leading capabilities: Workload Manager, Logical Partitioning, and Parallel Sysplex Clustering. The system dynamically allocates resources based on business priorities in order to ensure that the unpredictable demands of e-business are met. This session described the components of, and the workings of IRD, with a description of the new workload pricing for software. Bill Melnichuk,Consulting IT Specialist, National Technical Support, IBM Canada. Jan. 18, 2001

Linear Tape Open (LTO) Architecture and IBM LTO Product Overview
John Martin, National Tape Sales Specialist - IBM Canada, gave an overview of new open tape architecture for the open tape marketplace. Description of IBM's implementation of LTO. Review of features and benefits of IBM LTO. Some comparison against existing technologies. Nov. 16, 2000. View presentation (pdf, 1.8 MB)

Web enablement of OS/390 at CDS
Leon Schwering, Manager, Operating Systems at The Canadian Depository for Securities presented an overview on how CDS is Web Enabling their OS/390 system. CDS uses TCP/IP as their primary protocol internally, and are migrating their external participants from SNA to TCP/IP. There was a "live", "mobile" demonstration! Nov. 16, 2000.

Tivoli TSM

Rick E Smith, Tivoli Storage National Sales Executive, IBM/Tivoli Canada, has been the National ADSM/TSM Systems Engineer for two and a half years, and the National Sales Executive for the past 6 months. TSM is the successor to IBM's ADSM, an Enterprise-wide automated backup product. TSM is using new patented technologies such as Adaptive Differencing to deliver data transfer improvements of 200 percent and more, dramatically increasing application availability for e-business and web serving. Rick described what is new and in the future of TSM. Sept. 21, 2000

Tivoli SAN Solutions
Rick E Smith(see profile above) presented Tivoli's software solutions which help customers interconnect, share, and manage storage resources via Storage Area Network (SAN) technology. Sept. 21, 2000

Sending email from OS/390 to the Internet/Intranet
Ken Deering, one of the founders of TBS Software Inc., based in Richmond Hill, Canada. TBS develops and markets numerous add-on products for MVS, CICS and LAN office systems. Customers have been using OfficeVision-based tools developed or marketed by TBS to e-mail enable their existing business applications since 1986. Ken described the options available with OS/390 to send SMTP mail from business applications to private Intranets and the public Internet. Base OS/390 functionality, freeware and 3rd-party product offerings were discussed. The SMTP-Send product from TBS was described in detail. July 20, 2000.

Data Editors - a brief comparison
Chris Hamill, NaSPA Ontario Board Member and independent consultant, covered the ins and outs of ISPF edit. As well a general comparison with PC based word processing editors. The use of the editor features and process logic to effect desired data alterations without reverting to programmed solutions or extensive manual manipulation. July 20, 2000.

ERP on S/390
Chuck Henry, Senior Consulting Representative, IBM. "He's a very good, animated, and experienced presenter." - Anon. Chuck talked about: Why S/390 for ESP; SAP R/3 and S/390, PeopleSoft and S/390, Oracle Application Suite and S/390. May 18, 2000.

Linux on S/390
Chuck Henry (see profile above). Chuck covered: What is Linux?; What does Linux on S/390 look like; Why Linux on S/390; Directions; Conclusions. May 18, 2000.

Migrating Data to Virtual and High Capacity Tape
Mike Baldwin, Consultant, Cartagena Software, developer of tape utility software for OS/390 and Windows. Many organizations are migrating large libraries of 3480/3490 based tape datasets to newer technologies such as virtual tape (VTS, VSM), and high capacity tape (3590, 9840). Cartagena's host-based product TelTape/390 can help manage such a migration by reducing setup time, copying ranges of volumes, and producing audit trail and statistics reports. Mike also described planned enhancements to these environments which improve protection against data loss. Mar. 23, 2000.

Architecting Computer Capacity Analysis as a Client/Server Application [... the shoemaker's children kick back ... ]
Don Melton (Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies) specializes in performance and capacity analysis, and serves on the board of directors for CMG Canada and COUG. Often, the tools available to the IT analyst lag significantly behind those of the business user. We looked at Capacity Analysis as a client/server application and used the same analysis techniques that we would use on a line-of-business application to architect a "Capacity Analysis" application. We then reviewed the architecture for bottlenecks and presented an example of a "work-in-progress" where we began implementing an architecture using SAS on a Windows/Intel platform. Mar. 23, 2000.

Putting e-business to Work
George Manya, General Manager, NeoMedia Canada. NeoMedia Canada is a fully qualified e-business IBM Business Partner.An overview of IBM's and NeoMedia's perspective about WHY and HOW businesses should become e-businesses. The presentation drew from market research and customer references to describe the e-business cycle. The cycle provides insight into how companies have successfully moved from traditional business to e-business. Jan. 20, 2000.

Enterprise Application Management
Larry Boucher, Solutions Representative with Candle Corporation Managing applications and their response time, along with key recent trends. Larry's background is in Systems Management and Workflow; He has participated in major projects in both Canada and the United States, and brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Jan. 20, 2000.

CBT Tape: User Experiences
Alex Pawlowski has been a systems programmer for over 15 years, in the CICS, MVS, and Network areas. Presently he's a Systems Engineer with CDS, providing primary support for CICS and MQSeries. Alex is always first in line at NaSPA meetings for a fresh copy of the CBT Tape. He will relate the what and why of this free set of MVS utilities. Nov. 1999.

CBT Tapes
Some attendees receive copies of the CBT Utilities Tape, a free repository of utilities for OS/390 and MVS. You can find further information at the CBT Home Page. Media provided courtesy of Imation Canada Inc. Media duplication service provided courtesy of Cartagena Software. Every NaSPA Ontario session!

Tape Management by IBM
A general overview of DFSMSrmm with focus on product functionality and benefits. Included was a discussion of the migration process, a review of recent functional enhancements, and future function to look for. Louis Hanna, Software Storage Sales Specialist, Software Migration Project Office (SMPO), IBM. View presentation Sept. 21, 1999.

Open System Adapter and OSA/SF
User experiences with the IBM System/390 Open Systems Adapter. The OSA is an integrated hardware feature that allows the S/390 to provide connectivity directly to clients on LANs and WANs. The OSA Support Facility is used to customize an OSA. Matt Shakespeare, Systems Management Consultant at Cybermation Inc., managed the processor upgrade and system re-configuration in preparation for building a Parallel Sysplex. He described how the OSA is used in their environment, and his experiences with OSA/SF. July 20, 1999.

S/390 Integrated Server
Sue Squires, Account Manager for NeoMedia Canada, introduced the new IBM S/390 Integrated Server to the group. I.S is IBM's latest mainframe and the smallest, around 7 MIPS. It is an ideal replacement for older technology, or as a test and development box. (Sue won the first Integrated Server sale in Ontario). May 18, 1999.

Web Application and Data Enablement on OS/390
Andy Theoharis, Senior Field Technical Sales Specialist with IBM Canada, presented an overview of the Web Enablement technologies available on OS/390. Topics covered included Java, (language, environment, servlets, beans, java server pages), the OS/390 Webserver and its various flavours depending on OS/390 release, WebSphere and its components, the IBM Connectors to back-end Legacy Systems (CICS, IMS, DB2), Net.Commerce, Domino Notes, Security and Cryptography. Examples of these technologies and some customer examples were shown and discussed. View presentation slides.
Andy interned directly with the S/390 New Technology Centre and S/390 Parallel Competency Centre in Poughkeepsie and is currently technical consultant on Web and Domino on S/390 at all of the large Canadian Financial Institutions. Mar. 9, 1999.

Parallel Sysplex
Francis Meckevech, Product Manager MVS Systems at Cybermation Inc. presented a very brief history of MVS systems development and how we came to Parallel Sysplex. The session then concentrated on the challenges for managing Parallel Sysplex and possible solutions in these high demand, service level managed, goal based processing environments of the present and the future.
Francis is in charge of gathering market requirements for the development of new products or for the enhancement of the existing product line. As such Cybermation has been gathering specific information on the requirements for a product to tightly control very large Parallel Sysplex environments. This has allowed the company to develop both strategy and product for the control of these very large, mission critical installations. Mar. 9, 1999.

Technical Overview of MQSeries
Sandra Feist, is a Certified MQSeries Specialist who works for IBM. She has 4+ years hands on experience with MQSeries, and previously she spent many years working with CICS. This session focused on integration and benefits of MQSeries.

Real-Time Tape Utility - TelTape/390
Mike Baldwin, of Cartagena Software described tape processing under OS/390 using a new product, TelTape/390. Over the years working with StorageTek and as a consultant, Mike has developed an ISPF-based toolkit. Some of the problems solved include: Mapping foreign tapes, automating "image" copy processes, recovering lost data, browsing ASCII data, querying control unit statistics, and translating CA-1 into English.

Compuware Products
Peter Evans, of Compuware Corporation described the company's software products for the OS/390 platform such as File-AID, Abend-AID, Xpediter, and QAHiperstation.

INFO/MAN Futures
Larry Schultz of IBM Canada Ltd. talked about improvements in INFO/MAN usability by exploiting the new ISPF GUI and browser access and Java support, and the change-over of the product from IBM to Tivoli. To be added to the INFO/MAN newsletter, "The Structured Word", send an e-mail to Mary Ann Goldman.

Java: Just Another Programming Language? What Can We Use It For?
Peter Robinson, of Object Systems Design Inc., talked about Java. What is Java? A language specification owned by Sun Microsystems? Software development products from Sun and others? Embedded and incorporated technology (browsers, chip)? Component technology (beans)? A phenomenon! (From the original Sun white paper) Java is simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture-neutral, portable, high-performance, multi-threaded and dynamic. Peter elaborated on the above points with attention to details on how Java can be used to solve real problems in various environments.

Virtual Tape Servers generation 2
Sal Causi, Storage Systems Division National Manager, IBM Canada Ltd., covered experiences from the first 500 IBM VTS generation 1 customers. He described how IBM will take that experience and go on to VTS generation 2.

Implementing DFSMS (A Methodology and User Experiences)
Dave Ainger, Storage Management Specialist, was one of the founding members of HDS' SMS Team that designed and wrote HDS' SMS assistance offering. "Most sites have started, and some have finished, converting their data storage environments to DFSMS' management. There have been success stories, a number of failures, with most sites falling in the middle. This session discussed a methodology that has worked for me. I also pointed out a number of the problems that have been encountered, and how to avoid them." Ainger & Associates Inc.

Java Overview
Russell Crook of Sun Microsystems of Canada presented a technical overview of Java. He discussed several issues such as the effort to make Java an ISO standard and the importance of Java to enterprise computing. Then he gazed into his crystal ball and gave us some hints about Java's future.

CBT Tapes
Some attendees received copies of the latest version of CBT mods, a free repository of programs for OS/390 and MVS. You can view the directory of this tape at: http://www.cbttape.org

Windows 98: What and Why
Chris Hamill, Consulting Systems Engineer, of E.S.C.A.P.E. Inc. presented an assessment of the betas on Win98, the differences with NT 5, and what if anything Microsoft is selling that will have businesses buying either, in '99. January 20, 1998.

S/390: Open for E-Business
Discussed were the capabilities of S/390 in e-business solutions such as net.commerce, Lotus Domino Server, and webserving. Throughout the presentation Jacques Albert provided examples of customer implementations and the benefits of doing e-business on S/390. Jacques Albert, of the S/390 Network Computing and Applications Unit, IBM Canada Ltd. specializes in the new initiatives of the S/390 platform. January 20, 1998.

CEDAR - Get your CICS on the Web.
Microsoft has a project called CEDAR which will address Cooperative Processing for Enterprise Applications. One of its important byproducts is a graphical interface for CICS applications. This was presented using Windows NT by Chris Hamill of E.S.C.A.P.E Inc. November 18, 1997.

Unexplored applications of the Internet.
J. Dexter Blanchard, an experienced webmaster who started out with Bell Canada's ALEX system, moving on to fidonet, Net-TV, and now Cybermation Inc., told about unexplored applications of the Internet and new tools of the trade which will soon become available. November 18, 1997.

Save 20% and more on DASD.
Did you know that conversion to 3390 disk drives probably cost you 20% in 'dead' unused space? Guy Bruni, Technical Support Director at Compute (Bridgend) explained how to reclaim that space and more. Also, how to find and fix bad files. Over the past 10 years, Guy has tuned 1000s of VSAM files, and has presented at NaSTEC conferences. September 16, 1997.

How to Get what you Want (with Microsoft PowerPoint)
Chris Greaves, who led the fun session "How to do technical training" last year, gave a live demonstration of 'recommend a strategy' presentation development, starting with a word processor document, integrating diagrams, applying rules of thumb, and producing deliverables.
"If the knowledge you've gained isn't applicable forever, you've not aimed high enough". http://www.interlog.com/~cgreaves

Delivery of MVS reports over Intranets, Extranets and the Internet
Marian Lewandowski of The Xenos Group gave a presentation on using reports as the interface for electronic commerce: bill payment, mortgage renewal, mutual fund purchase; Mapping MVS report formats (IBM AFPDS, Xerox Metacode) into Internet formats (HTML, PDF), size, performance, security, integrity. View the presentation: check out an on-line demo. July 15, 1997.

Backup UNIX using StorageTek silos
Don Grimwoodof Canadian Tire Corporation shared his project experiences implementing an ADSM interface to StorageTek 4410 silo with 9490 Timberline drives. ADSM server platform on IBM RS/6000 SP2 High Node with SCSI attached Timberline tape drives. Remote library control interface using 3172 interface to StorageTek LCF and Library Station. July 15, 1997.

Enhancing the P/390
Randie Smith of Commercial Data Servers, Sunnyvale, CA presented the ESP/490 ("Enterprise Server Platform model 490"), an enhanced IBM P/390. Randie described the technology, and the Virtual System Image Controller, which substantially improves I/O performance. Randie is charged with technical support on this and future systems designed by Gene Amdahl's new team at CDS. May 13, 1997.

User experiences with IBM P/390.
TBS Software:Ken Deering, Vice-President of Development at TBS Software presented Bringing Up Baby Blue. In 1995 "TBS Software became the proud parents of a PC Server 500 System/390 which we affectionately called Baby Blue. We've been putting increasing load on Baby Blue since then -- some may say it now borders on 'child abuse' ". Ken unpacked the system, performed the initial install of OS/2 and MVS and has been involved in every subsequent software upgrade and hardware crisis. TBS Software develops, markets and supports software products that solve administrative problems faced by organizations with large numbers of electronic mail users. May 13, 1997.

MVS Solutions: Bob Lillington of MVS Solutions(the developers of ThruPut Manager) related his experiences setting up and using IBM's combination PC & S/390 mainframe. Bob is Product Specialist responsible for in-house systems and product training courses. March 18, 1997.

Year 2000 Update.
Mike Baldwin of Cartagena Software informed the group of software releases needed to support Year 2000 on MVS, in particular Independent Software Vendor (ISV) products. He also presented an overview of "virtual time" capabilities provided by TICTOC and HOURGLASS 2000: products which permit dynamic testing of programs and transactions in future time. March 18, 1997.

32 bit ops: Getting Geared up for the future? Or Just giving us the gears?
Chris Hamill, Consulting Systems Engineer, of E.S.C.A.P.E. Inc., presented a client level view of the challenges presented by the various 32 bit operating systems supporting every day use of applications for the Intel based personal computer. The presentation included comparisons of achieving the same practical applications on Windows 95, Windows NT 4, and OS/2 Warp 4. Also covered were some aspects of the nature of the management of a common platform for such evaluations. Jan. 21, 1997.

High Performance Printing
Setting up high speed (464 images per minute!) duplex laser printing. There was a slide show of a unique solution which automates production of cut sheet output from high speed continuous forms printers. Technology includes: IBM 3900, PSF, AFP, Stralfers LaserMax, Side 2 Verify. (This session was also presented at the Xplor conference). Oct. 15 1996.

An anecdotal history of printing
Ted Dunlop of CDP Communications Inc.talked about the strong relationship between high speed mainframe printing architectures. He described how some companies have achieved independence from printer architectures, and still have been able to create competitive documents taking advantage of APA functionality. Ted is the architect of an All Points Addressable (APA) Computer Output to Laser Disk product, supporting AFP. Oct. 15 1996.

StorageTek Redwood SD-3 Tape Technology.,
Mark Lewis, Open Systems Product Manager at StorageTek Canada Inc., presented customer case studies on tape technology, including Timberline 9490 (world's fastest 36-track), DLT 4000 & 7000 (low cost/high density), and of course Redwood SD-3 (high speed/high density).August 20, 1996.

Early User experiences with MAGSTAR
Tom Pavlidis, IBM Canada National Program Manager - Tape Solutions, described early life experiences with MAGSTAR: reliability, performance, and capacity in many different Client/Server environments and platforms: RS/6000, AS/400, SUN, Cray, and ES/9000.

How to do Technical Training.,
with Christopher Greaves. "How" suggests that you'll get a solution tonight. "To Do" suggest practice. "Technical" suggests industrial revolution, revolution suggests change. Not preparation for a new technology, but preparation for change. Courses change, applications change, but love of learning does not change.June 25, 1996

MVS Open Edition: HFS Storage Management
Presented by Stan Swain of Antares Alliance (Amdahl / EDS), Jan. 23, 1996.

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Multi-OS development and test environment
Co-existence of Windows 95, Windows NT, O/S2 Warp and SCO Unix (OpenServer) on a PC. Presented by Chris Hamill of E.S.C.A.P.E. Inc., Jan. 23, 1996

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