IT jobs where should I start?
Should I get any certificates (like A+,,etc) -Start at low level or help desk? (where) Thanks

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2013  7:59 PM
IT career, IT jobs

What entices you more: Dell’s integration plans or its new technology advances?
During last week’s Dell Enterprise Forum, many customers said they were more interested in the company’s integration plans than in new technology advances (including its all-flash Compellent arrays and the upcoming Fluid Cache for SAN flash-caching product). Do you agree? What entices you more: Dell’s integration plans or its new technology advance?

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  8:09 PM
Dell, Integration, New technology

Data Center options
Dear, it has been observed commonly that people don’t pay any attention to use shoe cover (poly bags) to avoid dust in data centers. Can anyone please elaborate what should be the SOP for this either to use 1, dedicated shoes for data centers, 2, use Shoe Cover, 3, use anti-contamination mats or any other [...]

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2013  12:12 PM
Data Center, Data Center administration, Data center cleaning

How does IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer impact the cloud industry?
Big news for CIOs and the cloud industry as IBM dished out a ‘$2 billion reality check’ to purchase the cloud computing company SoftLayer. Many experts feel this is a huge indicator that IBM plans to become a major player in the public cloud provider game (a’ la Amazon). How do you think IBM’s acquisition [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  12:36 PM
Cloud Computing, IBM, SoftLayer

PDF to txt in Apple OS X
I have just been sent a document in PDF form. It’s a text, and normally in preview (Apple) I can select the text, copy it and paste it somewhere. In this case, it’s impossible. Any solutions to this? It’s fairly long and don t want to have to retype it.

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  9:12 AM
Mac OS X, PDF

Data Center migration without any single downtime
Hi All, We are in business of cloud computing. We are planning to migrate few customers from one datacenter to another datacenter without affecting any customer, no single downtime, no packet drop. We are not handling any applications in servers, only infrastructure (IT). Kindly guide me how to proceed further? Kindly share your experiance? Specially [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2013  3:25 PM
Data Center Migration

How can I autopopulate the invoice.vendor field “on add” with maxuser.company?
I have an automation script code problem. Client has requested their vendors be able to log in and create/submit their own invoices. Restrictions are they can only select from POs issued by their company, only create invoices to sites they are authorized to. I have this taken care of by data restrictions in their security [...]

Answer Question   |  May 28, 2013  4:01 PM
Maximo, Maximo invoices

General Understanding of DRAM
- How frequently does a DRAM refresh happen in typical DDR-3 RAMs? - How long does it take to refresh DDR-3 RAMs? I would assume this time to be proportional to the size of the RAM. For example, a 2GB RAM refresh would take approximately double the time of a 1GB RAM. I may be [...]

Answer Question   |  May 27, 2013  8:34 AM
DDR-3, Design, DRAM, RAM Refresh

Citrix Test
Would like to do Citrix based end-to-end performance monitoring and testing. Any suggestions on what tools professionals on this site are utilizing.?

Answer Question   |  May 26, 2013  1:32 AM
Citrix, end-to-end performance, Load testing

Windows on Mac
What is the best Windows to be used on Mac?

Answer Question   |  May 28, 2013  7:25 PM
Mac, Windows

Next path for Exp Mainframe Professionals
Having around 13 years of IT experience (12 yrs in mainframes (support & enhancement projects, out of 12 yrs, 5 yrs as coder and 6 years as tech lead), and rest 2 years in Project management (Project management here is just resource and administrative management). like to further enhance my skills for better marketability I [...]

Answer Question   |  May 21, 2013  12:29 PM
career Shift, Mainframe, next steps

What’s they key to having a successful data analytics career?
One of the key takeaways from this year’s Enterprise Data World conference was how to have a successful career in data analytics. A good way to ensure it happens…conduct a self assessment. Would you agree? If not, what’s the key to having a successful data analytics career?

Answer Question   |  May 28, 2013  12:51 PM
Analytics, Data Analytics, IT jobs

COBOL/400 – Time stamp
Hi, could anyone please advice me how to use time stamp in COBOL/400?

Answer Question   |  May 15, 2013  4:58 AM
AS/400, CLLE, COBOL

Deleted outqueues
I want to know who has deleted IBM users out of queues. Please tell me the way to find out. Krishna.

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2013  7:47 AM
AS/400, IBM

I want to assemble a workstation and I don’t know which correct board to use
I have this task of assembling a workstation, and I have been thinking of what model of system motherboard to use, and what Intel processor type to use and the type of media card to use The workstation is going to be used to hold large amount of data, and stores some high resolution media [...]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2013  2:50 PM
Data Center, Database, Networking

CPF5011 COBOL subfile error
I have not written a subfile program in a while, but am having trouble when errors are encountered. As this is COBOL and the code can be lengthy to weed through on a forum, let me first spell out the scenario. I have 32 records in a COBOL subfile, 11 per page. There is one [...]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2013  2:09 PM
AS/400, AS/400 Subfiles, COBOL

What do you make of the hybrid IT movement?
During last week’s 2013 Amazon Web Services Summit, RightScale’s senior cloud solutions architect Brian Adler said more enterprises are moving their applications and functions to the cloud via ‘hybrid IT architecture.’ Hybrid IT allows companies to expand their architecture though multiple cloud providers and one or more on-premises IT environments. What do you make of [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2013  2:39 PM
Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, IT architecture

Is there any software which can automatically track my link servers?
Is there any software which can automatically track my link servers?

Answer Question   |  April 22, 2013  8:48 PM
Server software, Servers

Electric field intensity
What does electric field intensity mean?

Answer Question   |  April 16, 2013  9:44 AM
Electrical, Pen Drive

Is there a way to backup iseries partition without using a tape
I am using zipseries to backup libraries one by one >> Is there a way to backup the whole iSeries partition without using a tape device? That is to take a backup on PC or laptop. We have IBM 9406-520…is there a way to backup the whole server to a laptop?

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2013  3:29 PM
Backup & recovery, IBM Servers, iSeries