October / November 2005

A Star Is Born: The Leading Role of Change & Configuration Management in the Enterprise

Alternatives for Replacing IBM’s 37x5 for z/OS Users: A Comparison–CCL or Enterprise Extender?

A Star Is Born: The Leading Role of Change & Configuration Management in the Enterprise

Choosing an IMS Partitioning Solution for High-Availability Databases

DB2 for z/OS Systems Tuning: Honing Your Basic Instincts

Don’t Outsource Your Thinking: Value vs. Volume

Ensuring Recoverability in Mainframe Environments

Financial Matters: The Benefits of IT Leasing vs. Purchasing

Insider Insights: z/Journal Interviews IBM’s Ernie Fernandez

IT Sense: Words of Caution

Nine Essential Questions to Ask When Considering Service-Oriented Architecture for the Mainframe

Optimizing DB2: Get the Distribution Straight

Pete Clark on z/VSE: z/VSE: The Future—A View From the Trenches

Securing the Mainframe

Selecting the Number of Strings for VSAM Files Under CICS/TS

SOX and the Database Professional: Mainframe Compliance Issues

Storage Methods for Preventing Data Theft

War Stories From an Old Code-Slinger

z/Bottom Line: Common Discourtesy

z/Data Perspectives: SQL Performance Tuning Basics

z/Vendor Watch: Scalability on a Grand Scale