SPARTA News July 2002
July 2002
SPARTA Chapter President’s Corner
- by Brad Carson
The long hot (and dry for most of us) summer is in full swing for all of us. The heat and humidity is up and the water levels are down. The city wants us to reduce the amount of water we use at home and management wants us to reduce our costs at work (always).
Our QAAD move is gaining some momentum. We have a target date of August 17th to finish the move. The data communications folks now know we are doing something since we started moving gigabytes of information over their precious network between RTP and Burlington. We now have a full copy of our QAAD system running in Burlington and have let the developers access it so that they can see if they will be able to still do their jobs after the move. I expect a number of worried looks and urgent e-mails around the middle of August.
Right after our June meeting, someone in upper management decided that we aren’t doing enough backups for Disaster Recovery purposes. In the space of a week and a half we had to come up with a way to “Backup Everything” to please management. With a lot of work on Tommy Thomas’ part, a plan was developed and implemented that will backup the farm. This process (which has to be done weekly) requires a five and a half to six hour window on our system. This has definitely raised some eyebrows around the company.
This month Ken Reed from StorageTek will be giving us a presentation on using STK’s Virtual Storage Manager for DR.
I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday, July 30th at LabCorp RTP. BarBQ, drinks, and dessert will be provided.
Future Speakers
(subject to change)
July 30 STK Virtual Tape Manager for DR by Ken Reed of StorageTek
August 27 SHARE Report by Ed Webb of SAS
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 336-641-6235
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 V447 (dated May 31, 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 June 25th, 2002 Meeting
•Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Brad Carson, the Chapter President.
•Fifteen (15) people were present; fourteen (14) were members.
•Everyone in the room introduced themselves, told where they worked, and briefly described their job function.
•Minutes of the May 2002 meeting were accepted as published in the June 2002 newsletter.
•Tommy Thomas, the Chapter Treasurer, gave the Treasurer’s report. As of June 25, 2002, the balance is $814.91.
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: 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.
•Brad reminded everyone to keep the conference room clean; wipe off the conference table and remove all trash when the meeting is over.
NEW BUSINESS
•Future Speakers and Topics:
July 2002 -StorageTek Virtual Tape
August 2002 - SHARE
September 2002 - TBA
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 July 2002 meeting will be BarBQ, sodas, and dessert.
•The July SPARTA meeting will be held at LabCorp in RTP.
•Thanks to Brad Carson of LabCorp for hosting the June meeting.
•The business portion of the meeting ended at 7:30 p.m.
•Dan Myers of IBM Corp. talked about the IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800). The z800 was announced in February 2002 and is a “baby” z900. Topics included:
Management Challenges
Introducing IBM zSeries 800
All the unique qualities of the z900 repackaged in a smaller zSeries
z800 Highlights
z/architecture - 64 bit
Flexible models
Granular upgrades
Parallel Sysplex
Advanced Connectivity
Availability built in
Secure by design
zSeries Entry License Charge (zELC) Software Pricing
z800 Overview
Processor
5 PU MCM 1-4 CPs
I/O subsystem does not support parallel channels
HiperSockets
Memory
Minimum 8 GB, Maximum 32 GB
Network and Connectivity Options
z800 Security Options
zSeries Availability
z800 Model 0CF Coupling Facility
zOS V1R3 What's new?
zOS.e
Specially priced z/OS offering for enterprise and e-business applications on z800.
Does not support transaction monitors (i.e. CICS, IMS TM).
IBM zSeries offering for Linux
Flexible execution of workloads
•The meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM.
Treasurer’s Report for July 2002
contributed by Tommy Thomas
The balance in the account is $ 738.68 as of July 11, 2002.
Financial Report
3/01/2002 through 7/11/2002
INCOME
Opening Balance 693.15
Total Deposits 270.00
TOTAL INCOME $963.15
EXPENSES
Food 148.24
Petty Cash 120.00
Bank Service Fees 21.00
TOTAL EXPENSE $289.24
BANK BALANCE 673.91
PETTY CASH($120) 64.77
TOTAL CASH $738.68
Items of Interest
Short History of IBM COBOL
contributed by Ed Webb
From Tom Ross, Senior Engineer, IBM:
There is no such thing as COBOL II or COBOL III, though there is a VS COBOL II and a COBOL3 CICS precompiler option. Here is the history:
1984 5740-CB1 1.02.4 OS/VS COBOL
1988 5668-958 1.03.0 VS COBOL II V1R3
1989 5668-958 1.03.1 VS COBOL II V1R3M1
1990 5668-958 1.03.2 VS COBOL II V1R3M2
1992 5668-958 1.04.0 VS COBOL II V1R4
1991 5688-197 1.01.0 AD/Cycle COBOL/370 R1 (First LE-conforming compiler)
1995 5688-197 1.02.0 COBOL for MVS & VM R2
1997 5648-A25 2.01.0 COBOL for OS/390 & VM V2R1
2000 5648-A25 2.02.0 COBOL for OS/390 & VM V2R2
2001 5655-G53 3.01.0 Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 V3R1
Eighth Grade Education
contributed by Chris Blackshire
“A country boy from the mid west now living in Colorado sent this to me to remind me how little we have progressed ??? in education in the last century and how effective our money is being spent by the various governments has become??? Not sure what we do about our decline - after all we are sure to repeat history if we don't take advantage of where we have been.” Bob Temple
EIGHTH GRADE EDUCATION...
Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 Salina, Kansas USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case. Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 ft. long, and 2 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. a bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards, 12 inches wide and 16 feet long at $20 per meter?
8. Find the bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607 1620 1800 1849 1865
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How are they classified?
3. What are the following and give example of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u’.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with a final ‘e’. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the US.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
*** Gives the saying of an early 20th century person that “she/he only had an 8th grade education” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?
Don’t Forget the Next SPARTA Meeting
Tuesday, July 30, 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: BarBQ, Drinks, Dessert
Program:
Virtual Storage Manager for DR
Speakers:
Ken Reed of StorageTek
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