February / March 2006

Hewitt Associates Installs Rock-Solid System z9

ApplinX From Software AG Simplifying the Modernization Challenge

Bind ImpactExpert With EarlyPrecheck From Software Engineering

BMC MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer From BMC Software

Bringing Mainframe Audit and Compliance Into the 21st Century: How to Keep the Auditor’s Teeth From Biting

CICS Web Services: Background, Hints & Tips

Compliance Options: Basel II and You

Data Serving IBM Mainframe-Style

Don’t Outsource Your Thinking: Dazzling the Server Farm Hands

Eight Tips for the New Mainframe Storage Manager

Exclusive Focus on Web Services May Blur SOA Vision

Getting Re-Acquainted With DB2 Packages

Getting Started With SOA: 10 Tips for Better Results with Your Mainframe Integration Vendor

Getting Started With SOA: 10 Tips for Better Results With Your Mainframe Integration Vendor

IMS Resource Adapter: Web-Enabling IMS

Insider Insights: z/Journal Interviews Dan Kaberon of Hewitt Associates on His Impressions of the z9

IT Sense: Porous Software Is Key Security Threat

KBC Group: Splitting ICF Catalogs and Solving Recovery Challenges

Logical Data Migration Facility (LDMF) From EMC/Softek

Mainframe Growth and ISVs: The User View—Data Serving IBM Mainframe-Style

Mainframe Processor Pricing History

Migration Challenges

Minimizing Change in Your DB2 for z/OS Database

Parallel Data Mover From Alebra Technologies

Pete Clark on z/VSE: z/VSE 3.1.1 and WAVV 2006

Taking the Fear Out of Information Sharing: IBM z9 and Mainframe Encryption Products Solve Security Woes

The 10 Commandments of TCP/IP Performance

The Next Step in Data Center Evolution Opportunities and Challenges

Why Session Managers Still Matter

Workload Manager Metrics: Percentile Response Time

z/Bottom Line: A POWER Trip

z/Data Perspectives: Model-Based Development and Management

zStorage Industry Update and Trends zSTORAGE