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Learn how to enhance the availability of mission-critical CICS/VSAM applications with DFSMStvs (Transactional VSAM Services). DFSMStvs is a new feature of z/OS that allows you to keep VSAM data sets available to CICS on-line applications 24 X 7, while concurrently updating these data sets with batch applications. tech news

BEC is an IT center operated as a cooperative by and for 32 banks and financial services firms throughout Denmark and the Nordic region. BECs Trading System is a mission-critical interface between securities dealers and the Nordic Exchanges. But the solution, based on IBM OS/2, didnt have a future upgrade path. After considering Linux, BEC is now migrating to the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family of operating systems. BEC expects the solution to take advantage of features such as clustering and Group Policy settings-not available in Linux. tech news

This white paper is intended as a planning aid to assist customer migrations to WLM goal mode. The document is intended to help customers plan and organize the migration effort, listing issues commonly raised by installations during their migration. The white paper is organized as a checklist with information organized around two major themes which are systems management issues or concerns and setting goals. tech news

This paper examines computer viruses and their impact on 32-bit operating systems. It explains why these systemsare susceptible to virus attacks and how emerging technologies may actually speed the transmission of viruses. Itthen describes the technologies available to detect and eradicate viruses and summarizes Symantec's anti-virus solution for 32-bit operating system environments such as Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2. tech news

This article is a disassembly of a floppy or hard disk boot sector for OS/2. Apparently OS/2 uses the same boot sector for both environments. Basically a bootable FAT hard disk partition looks like a big floppy during the early stages of the system's boot processing. This sector is at cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1 of a floppy or it is the first sector within a FAT hard disk partition. OS/2 floppy disk and hard disk boot sectors are created by the OS/2 FORMAT program. tech news