Posted by Surekha Parekh on September 30, 2009 at 6:23am
Join us at the IBM DB2 party at the beautiful Rome Marriott being held on October 7th at 7:30PM.
Limited places Register here! and collect your ticket at the IBM booth.
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Posted by Surekha Parekh on September 25, 2009 at 10:40am
Complimentary Online Certification Assessment Testing for Registered IDUG Europe Conference AttendeesIBM has designed the offer to help you prepare for the complimentary Information Management Professional Certification being offered at the IDUG Europe event October 5-9, 2009. Assessment tests will be available free of charge 2 weeks prior to and during the conference, September 24- October 9, 2009. Normally these tests are offered for a fee of $10 each. So now you can become an IBM Information Management Certified Professional and take your job knowledge to the next level at no charge to you! Please note assessment test quantities are limited, only one complimentary assessment test per registered attendee.
To take advantage of this offer, visit the Information Management Certification Assessment Website. link to the Prometric Assessment Testing site and enter the
promotion code you receive in your IIUG event confirmation email during the checkout process.
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Posted by Surekha Parekh on September 25, 2009 at 10:14am
Computerworld: Bank of America touts mainframe work as a safe career
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138256/Bank_of_America_touts_mainframe_work_as_a_safe_career?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2009-09-18
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Posted by Surekha Parekh on September 25, 2009 at 10:12am
IBM Program to Help Students Gain Critical Mainframe Skills Grows to More Than 600 Universities
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28430.wss (IBM Press Release - 9/18)
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Posted by Surekha Parekh on September 17, 2009 at 8:27am
Driving business value with DB2 for z/OSBaldor Electric has been able to reduce the cost of IT to 1% (one percent - not a typo) of sales. This is a great article about how IBM and DB2 for z/OS and the IBM mainframe environment can help drive business value.
Read Baldor Electric’s System z10 1 Percent Solution and contact your IBM rep if you want to have further discussions.
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DB2 for z/OS - pureXML for SOA
The adoption of XML data is increasing rapidly. If you are working with XML data, take a couple of minutes to view this brief demo on the pureXML capabilities in DB2 for z/OS.
From this demo you will learn how DB2 pureXML seamlessly integrates XML and relational data and as a result you will experience four key benefits:
1. Developer productivity which will lower your development costs
2. Improved application performance
3. Ability to consolidate all information on System Z
4. Lower storage costs
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Read Secrets of TCP/IP: Performance and Tuning and learn how you can:
1.Optimize key TCP/IP configuration files — Considerations for MTU, OSA-Express, and tracing
2.Estimate storage requirements — TCP and UDP buffer sizes, CSM use of storage, and VTAM buffer
settings
3. Determine application performance and capacity — Telnet (TN3270) capacity planning, FTP tuning,
and FTP capacity planning
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How well do you know IBM System z mainframe ? Take this short quiz to see where your knowledge lies compared to others
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Hi, we have 118 members since we have launched this community network - I know there are lots more people out there that would like to know what is happening in "The World of DB2 for z/OS" . I would like to have between 500-1000 members by December 2010 so please can you all invite your friends and collegues so they can also join this exciting community.
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If you don't want to miss out of free education then join our DB2 for z/OS Webcasts Groups and register for events today. Web events will be available on demand for limited period.
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If you missed this really successful event on Tuesday then don't worry - we have made this webcast available for you on replay. We had nearly 600 registrations and great feedback so don't miss this
opportunity if you are using Data Sharing technology or interested in exploiting the potential benefits.
TitleHow to reduce costs, and increase capacity and availability with IBM DB2 data sharing
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Speakers: John J. Campbell, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Anthony Ciabattoni, Fiserv Corporation, DB2 Consulting Engineer at CheckFree now part of Fiserv
Please do not hesitate to provide feedback on this event if you attended - your feedback is really valuable and helps us improve our services and products.
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