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Everybody knows that it's often difficult to write an Assembler program of any complexity, and most of us know that it sometimes can be even harder to debug it. The same holds true if you're programming in other languages. Writing error-free code takes a lot of effort, and usually, you don't want to make that same effort twice.
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Most sizable organizations have some type of Business Resumption Plan in place designed to respond to a disaster in an equipment room or other facility. A disaster, for purposes of this article, is loosely defined as an incident which damages the facility, equipment, or data, which supports a “mission  read more »

Like most IT pros, in my career I have owned an ever-evolving library of technical books, a total surely numbering well into the hundreds by now. The selection of books I keep at hand is in constant flux as IT platforms and technologies are supplanted by newer (and hopefully better) options, or as my interests and job duties change.  read more »

Although there are a number of forces driving companies to modernize their IT systems these days, the overriding impetus for enterprise IT modernization (EIM) is the need to easily address changing business demands in order to maintain a competitive edge in the market.  read more »

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Major technology vendors are all over the map when it comes to corporate strategies for Linux and Open Source.
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It’s not always easy to find the source of network slows. Maybe the network is the problem, or maybe it’s an application issue. In some cases, a major bandwidth overhaul is required and in others a local issue needs to be addressed. Much of the time, though, it’s hard to tell, and finger-pointing can be the result.  read more »

Introduction

An email was recently sent to an online community in which a question similar to the following was asked:

“We have an in-house REXX utility that’s executed by entering ‘TSO UTILNAME’ on an ISPF command line. The utility displays a panel, but the fields on the panel aren’t always the same as the values I entered previously. Why is that?”  read more »

Let me start off right away by saying what this article isn’t. It isn’t going to describe a 1950s-like prediction of data centers run by robots, nor is it going to describe the use of nano-technology to create a sentient array of devices.  read more »

VoIP Network: How everything works together.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) been around for quite a while but has been slow to catch on. Now, VoIP has finally come of age.  read more »