SPARTA News June 2002
June 2002
SPARTA Chapter President’s Corner
- by Brad Carson
Welcome to summer. June brings us the triple threat; Hazy/Hot/Humid and a longing to be somewhere cool, like the beach (or seashore for us Yankees), or anywhere but work. Maybe when we get our QAAD LPAR moved to Burlington, I’ll be able to take some time off (what a concept).
Our QAAD move is slowly (and I mean slowly) moving along. We are now testing the movement of application data using a virtual network and Connect:DIRECT from Sterling Commerce. Our developers want to move more data in a weekend than we have bandwidth for (“I want all the production files copied every week”). We have a group now that is reviewing all these data requests and challenging them for validity. Because of the size of some of the data, we are looking into installing some STK 9840 drives in the SILO at Burlington and using the “Ole Shoe Leather Express” mode for moving this data.
While all of this is going on we are working on a process to move the SCLM production objects from Burlington to RTP. Our production SCLM environment is on the QAAD system and we are planning to have just the production and emergency data sets on PROD down in RTP. This has been an interesting little process to come up with. I’ll talk more about this in the future.
This month Duane has a topnotch presentation about the z800 lined up for us. I look forward to seeing you all on June 25th.
Future Speakers
(subject to change)
June 25 IBM eServer zSeries 800 by someone of IBM
July 25 StorageTek Virtual Disk
August 27 SHARE reports
We need ideas and volunteers for future speakers. Presentations don’t have to be fancy, just informative and interesting. Even a 5 or 10 minute talk can start an interesting interaction. Contact Duane Reaugh by phone or e-mail as noted below.
2002-2003 SPARTA
Board of Directors
Brad Carson - President
LabCorp 919-572-7504
1912 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Duane Reaugh - Vice President
DTS Software 919-833-8426
2913 Wake Forest Road
Raleigh, NC 27609-7841
Mike Lockey - Secretary
Guilford Co. Information Services 336-412-6235
201 N. Eugene St. 336-227-2021 (Home)
Greensboro, NC 27401
Tommy Thomas - Treasurer
LabCorp 336-436-4178
231 Maple Ave, Koury Ctr 3rd Fl. 919-572-7507
Burlington, NC 27215
Ed Webb - Communications Director
SAS Institute 919-531-4162
SAS Campus Drive 919-362-0232 (Home)
Cary, NC 27513
Meetings
Meetings are scheduled for the last Tuesday evening of each month (except no meeting in December), with optional dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m.
These monthly meetings are held at LabCorp’s Center for Molecular Biology and Pathology (CMBP) near the Research Triangle Park (see last page). Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into LabCorp complex and turn Left to the CMBP Building. In the lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Brad Carson. Brad will escort you to the conference room.
Call for Articles
If you have any ideas for speakers, presentations, newsletter articles, or are interested in taking part in a presentation, PLEASE contact one of the Board of Directors with your suggestions.
Newsletter Mailings
The SPARTA chapter policy is to mail a copy of the monthly chapter newsletter to each SPARTA member, NaSPA national, each advertiser, persons who have requested a copy, and to other chapters who send us a copy of their newsletter. The newsletter is mailed about the 20th of each month so you can prepare for the meeting. The mailing list is maintained by Mike Lockey at (336) 412-6235; if you have corrections or problems receiving your newsletter, call Mike.
May 2002 CBT Tape Online
The directory and files from the latest CBT tape V446 (dated May 14, 2002) are available from www.cbttape.org.
If you need a complete tape, contact Brad Carson at LabCorp or Ed Webb at SAS (see Board of Director’s list for contact info).
Minutes of the May 28th, 2002 Meeting
•Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Brad Carson, the Chapter President.
•Fifteen (15) people were present; twelve (12) were members.
•Everyone in the room introduced themselves, told where they worked, and briefly described their job function.
•Minutes of the April 2002 meeting were accepted as published in the May 2002 newsletter.
•Tommy Thomas, the Chapter Treasurer, gave the Treasurer’s report. As of May 28, 2002, the balance is $559.70.
OLD BUSINESS
•Articles are needed for this newsletter. If you would like to write an article for this newsletter, please contact Ed Webb. Keep in mind that you don’t really need to write the article, it can be an article that you read that you would like to share with the membership.
•The SPARTA Web page is now available. To access the SPARTA Web page, point your Web browser to this site: http://www.netpath.net/~mlockey/sparta.html. Please send any comments or suggestions about the Web page to Mike Lockey (mlockey@netpath.net). Be sure to check the Web page every once in a while to see any new or changed information.
NEW BUSINESS
•Future Speakers and Topics:
June 2002 - IBM z800
July 2002 - StorageTek Virtual Disk
August 2002 - SHARE
Other ideas:
- Conversion to RMM - Tommy Thomas
- TDMF - Ken Frump
- WLM Goal Mode - Jim Horne
- UNIX Services for OS/390
- IBM New Announcements
- CICS Web Bridge
If you have suggestions about speakers and topics, contact Duane Reaugh.
•Food for the June 2002 meeting will be fried chicken, sodas, and dessert.
•The June SPARTA meeting will be held at LabCorp in RTP.
•Thanks to Brad Carson of LabCorp for hosting the May meeting.
•The business portion of the meeting ended at 7:25 p.m.
•Dave Wright of ASG (Allen Systems Group) presented an overview of the products ASG offers. Topics included:
ASG Overview
ASG Representative Clients
ASG Breadth of Product Offering
Applications Management
Operations Management
Performance Management
Information Management
Technology Infrastructure Management
Fully Integrated Solutions
Supporting ASG’s Solutions
Professional Services
Product Support
Product Development
The ASG Difference
Focus on Customer Success
Breadth of solutions that few others can match
Competitive pricing
Flexible and innovative licensing models
ASG Licensing Models
Innovative Licensing Models
Partnership Benefits
•The meeting was adjourned at 8:25 PM.
Treasurer’s Report for May 2002
contributed by Tommy Thomas
The balance in the account is $ 564.91 as of June 14, 2002.
Financial Report
3/01/2002 through 6/14/2002
INCOME
Opening Balance 693.15
Total Deposits 20.00
TOTAL INCOME $713.15
EXPENSES
Food 148.24
Petty Cash 120.00
TOTAL EXPENSE $268.24
BANK BALANCE 444.91
PETTY CASH 120.00
TOTAL $564.91
Remember to renew your membership now! Dues are still only $20 for the year.
Items of Interest
IBM and Hitachi Want to Virtualize Storage
contributed by Ed Webb
Two recent articles from Enterprise Systems Journal news show IBM wants to develop Storage Software solutions but abandon disk drive manufacturing:
IBM Unveils Storage Software Plans
IBM and Hitachi Team Up to take on EMC
Havin’ a little fun with the English language....
contributed by Chris Blackshire
1. A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two-tired.
2. What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway).
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backwards poet writes inverse.
5. In democracy it’s your vote that counts.
In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion
8. If you don’t pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat minor.
11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
16. He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
17. Every calendar’s days are numbered.
18. A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine.
19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
20. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
22. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
24. Once you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
28. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
You Know You’re Living in 2002 When:
contributed by Chris Blackshire
You know you’re living in 2002 when:
1. You have 5 passwords, but can only remember one.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
4. You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
8. You’ve sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
9. Your company’s welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
10. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
11. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o’clock news.
12. Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
13. Your supervisor doesn’t have the ability to do your job.
14. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
15. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
16. Interviewees, despite not having relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
17. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
18. Your supervisor gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours boots up.
19. Being sick is defined as you can’t walk or you’re in hospital.
20. There’s no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department desperately needs, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss’s boss on strategy.
21. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers."
AND THE CLINCHERS ARE...
22. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
23. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends."
Don’t Forget the Next SPARTA Meeting
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Location: LabCorp in the RTP
Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into LabCorp complex and turn left to the CMBP Building. In the lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Brad Carson. Brad will escort you to the conference room.
Free Food: Fried Chicken, Drinks, Dessert
Program:
IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800)
Speakers:
TBA from IBM
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