SPARTA News

November 2014

SPARTA President’s Corner

contributed by Chris Blackshire

How Will The Internet of Things Transform Your life?

The Internet of Things (IoT) will be shaping human life with greater connectivity and ultimate functionality, and all this is happening through networking to the Internet. It promises to transform daily life, making it easier to work, travel, shop and stay healthy. Thanks to billions of connected devices, there is seemingly no limit to what can be connected to the Internet. For example, toilets at London’s Heathrow Airport report on their usage, a wireless collar for cows to wear, to check your home video monitors, to help you avoid traffic jams as you travel from work, smart toothbrushes, thermostats to commercial drones, robotic companions for the elderly, web-connected TV, personal robots, smart refrigerator, wearable fitness device, portable heart or other health monitor, smart washing machine, smart vacuum, utility smart meters, smart manufacturing assembly floors, and many many more items, but you get the idea.

A combination of technologies, including low-cost sensors, low-power processors, scalable cloud computing, and ubiquitous wireless connectivity, has enabled this revolution. The technology is exploding, with research firm IDC predicting that smart, Internet-linked objects will number more than 200 billion and generate in excess of $7 trillion in annual sales by 2020.

The concern that most people think about is the potential for criminal misuse. Security from hacking becomes significantly more challenging in a widely distributed and widely accessible IoT. Traditional defense like firewalls and anti-virus software, work to some degree in the internet we already understand but are completely unsuited for protecting these new, easily attackable entry points to the Internet.

Just what happens to the data spewed out by all these interlinked machines is a deep concern shared by many security researchers, legal authorities, government officials and consumer advocates. They fear the information could be used to skew our credit ratings, jack up our insurance rates, help hackers steal our money, or enable spy agencies to compile detailed dossiers on each of us. Moreover, they say, this vast sea of data could be misused to put a high-tech twist on the age-old curse of discrimination, with unscrupulous landlords or employers excluding people based on the data they've secretly acquired. It might also might alert your insurer if your car is weaving when you head home and report your frequent drinking to your boss. Or report speeding to the local police station.

Much of the data is expected to flow directly from the gadgets to the businesses that made them. Legal experts say federal and state laws poorly regulate how the information can be used, and the companies already selling smart gadgets often are vague about what they do with the data or whether they sell it to others. Consequently, it's possible someone's personal details could bounce around the Internet and be accessed by countless people.

Such firms often say they "de-identify" the data so it can't be attributed to individuals. Yet researchers have found it's frequently possible to "re-identify" data by combining it with other available facts. As a result, a White House report in May concluded that data re-identification "creates substantial uncertainty" about peoples' ability to control their personal information.

We in IT need to look at its benefits while also making sure to look at the risks and minimize them. We have to be part of the process of making the Internet of Things something that helps people and saves lives without damaging human rights.

You, as a consumer, need to be aware of the positive and negative opportunities of buying/using these devices.

See you on our new night (the first Tuesday of the month) on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at LabCorp in RTP to hear our own Garry Grandlienard speak about System z in a Mobile World.

Chris Blackshire

Future Speakers

(subject to change)

Dec. 2 (Nov. meeting) - System z in a Mobile World by Garry Grandlienard of IBM
Dec. 30 - No meeting. Happy Holidays!!!
Feb. 3, 2015 - First Meeting of the New Year!

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 Ron Pimblett by phone as noted below.

2013-2014 SPARTA

Board of Directors

Brad Carson - President

(1959-2013)

Ron Pimblett - Vice President

MDI Data Systems 919-426-6518

866-634-3282

Raleigh, NC 27609

Mike Lockey - Secretary

Guilford Co. Information Services 336-641-6235

201 N. Eugene St.

Greensboro, NC 27401

Tommy Thomas - Treasurer

LabCorp 336-436-4178

3060 S. Church St.

Burlington, NC 27215

Ed Webb - Communications Director

SAS Institute Inc. 919-531-4162

SAS Campus Drive

Cary, NC 27513

Meetings

Meetings are scheduled for the first Tuesday evening of each month (except no meeting in January), with optional dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m.

These monthly meetings usually 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 1912 T.W. 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 Tommy Thomas. Tommy 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 e-Mailings

The SPARTA policy is to e-mail a monthly notice to our SPARTA-RTP Group. The newsletter is posted to the website about five (5) days before each meeting so you can prepare. The SPARTA-RTP Group is maintained by Chris Blackshire; if you have corrections or problems receiving your meeting notice, contact Chris at chrisbl@nc.rr.com.

June 2014 “CBT Tape” Shareware Online

The directory and files from the latest CBT tape V488 (dated June 03, 2014) are available from www.cbttape.org.

If you need help obtaining one or more files, contact Ed Webb at SAS (see Board of Director’s list for contact info).

Minutes of the November 4, 2014 Meeting

•Meeting was called to order at 7:05 PM by Ron Pimblett, the Chapter Vice President.

•The meeting was held at LabCorp in RTP, N.C.

•Fourteen (14) people were present of which Ten (10) were 2014 members.

•Everyone in the room introduced themselves, told where they worked, and briefly described their job functions or their job hunting challenges.
•The minutes of the September 2014 meeting were approved as published in the October 2014 newsletter.

•Tommy Thomas, the Chapter Treasurer, gave the Treasurer's Report. As of Oct. 10, 2014, the balance is $522.94. Motion was made and approved to accept the Treasurer's Report as published in the October 2014 newsletter.

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 available at http://www.spartanc.org. Please send any comments or suggestions about the Web page to Mike Lockey. Be sure to check the Web page every once in a while to see any new or changed information.

•Tommy reminded everyone to leave the LabCorp conference room clean.

•Future Speakers and Topics (subject to change based on internal politics, budget, the weather):

Date	Company	Speaker	Topic
Dec. 2, 2014	IBM	Harv Emery	System z Hardware Update

If you have suggestions about speakers and topics, contact Ron Pimblett (919-833-8426).

•The next SPARTA monthly meeting will be December 2, 2014, at LabCorp in the RTP.
(Note that meeting location may change based on Ron Pimblett's planning with IBM.

•Food for the December 2 meeting will be Subs.

NEW BUSINESS

•Thanks to LabCorp (Tommy Thomas) for hosting the meeting.

•There are currently 43 people on the SPARTA-RTP e-mailing list. There are no new additions since last month.

•Send any e-mail address changes to Chris Blackshire so he can update the SPARTA-RTP Listserv. You will be added by the moderator (Chris) sending you an invitation to Join the list. (ChrisBl@nc.rr.com)

•President’s Corner submissions are wanted. Please assist Ron Pimblett and Ed Webb with ideas or try actually writing a President’s Corner article. If your shop is installing software or an OS process like Brad wrote about, please write about it.

•Tommy Thomas noted that monthly meetings are costing about $100 each and the treasury balance is being depleted. We need to think of ways to increase the treasury balance such as increasing the 2015 dues, a membership drive, more corporate sponsors, etc. Think about the issue and resolutions for the next meeting.

•The business portion of the meeting ended at 7:50 p.m.

PRESENTATION

• zSAT Presentation By Thiru Thirupuvanam and Nagaraj Krishnamurthy of TPF Software
• Agenda
- TPF Company Introduction
- TPF Software To Be Reviewed
- - zSAT - System Analysis Tool for z/OS
- - zDVI - Dump Viewer for ALCS
- - zIDE Pro - Development and Management Tool

• Introduction to the TPF Software Company
- One stop solution for all TPF industry needs
- - Development Environments
- - Application Services
- - System Services & Products
- - Education Services
- IBM Business Partner
- - Member of the S/390 Partner World program
- - Cross Technology agreements
- - Early access to z/TPF and other emerging technologies
- Growth Timelines
- - 1986 - Started as a test tools company
- - 1995 - Developed the first GUI test tool for TPF
- - 2005 - Diversified in to Application Services Business
Started TPF Software India
- - 2008 - Launched zTPFGI – A comprehensive development environment for zTPF
- - 2013 - Implemented zTPF products at Various customers
zOS product development

• TPF Software Products
- zTPFGI suite
- zOS suite
- Idea suite
- RESKB

• zTPF Mainframe Products
- Graphical Debugger: Advanced debugging tool with end-to-end testing solution
- Integrated IDE: Development tool to Edit, Save, Compile and Load programs
- Connectivity Virtualization: Software solution to provide seamless connectivity to systems with no physical networks or links
- Regression Tool: Quality control tool to uncover new software bugs in existing functional and non-functional areas
- Resource Manager: Automation and Resource optimization tool
- DF Explorer: Graphical interface tool for browsing and interacting with TPFDF database
- Performance Analyzer: Resource usage recording and examination tool

• ALCS Products
- Graphical Debugger: Advanced debugging tool with end-to-end testing solution
- Integrated IDE: Development tool to Edit, Save, Compile and Load programs
- Dump Viewer: WEB Interface for IBM Dump Viewer tool, with easy to navigate with point and click
- Performance Analyzer: Resource usage recording and examination tool

• zOS Mainframe Products
- Curent Products
- - Integrated IDE:
- - - Development tool to Edit, Save, Compile and Load programs
- - - Supports COBOL, PL/I, ASSEMBLER, C & C++
- - - Integrates with most of the source control software
- - System Analysis Tool:
- - - WEB interface Analysis Tool for z/OS System
- - - Collects system critical data
- - - Analyses and provides recommendations - Potential Products
- - Graphical Debugger: Advanced debugging tool with end-to-end testing solution
- - Dump Viewer: WEB Interface for IBM Dump Viewer tool, with easy to navigate with point and click

• zSAT - System Analysis Tool for z/OS

• The Challenge – System Programmer Perspective
- At times getting information out of z/OS is like finding your way out of a maze
- - Modern interface to z/OS Data? (CBs, Data Areas)
- - Change history of critical parameters?
- - Way to get alerts on reaching thresholds?
- - TCP/IP Status?
- - Access securely via iPads/Smart Devices?
- - Scheduler to log critical data? Compare to find what was changed?
- - Where does the RACF profiles backup reside?
- - System Configuration? Parameters used at IPL?
- - Last IPL Date?
- - Simple yet practical Dashboard?
- - Device Channels Installed and those online now?
- - One tool to monitor Multiple entities?
- - DASDs Online? Most/Least Used?
- - EAV Status? (Extended Address Volumes) List of Empty Datasets?
- - Intuitive interface to Health Checker?
- - Generate PDF Reports

• The Challenge – Audit Perspective
- Because of their importance, z/OS systems need to be audited regularly
- - Can I perform frequent audits?
- - How to dig through complex data?
- - Can I speed up the auditing?
- - Customized Audit Reports?
- - Do I need to hire a z/OS expert to audit?
- - Budget?
- - History of S/W went in and out of z/OS?
- - Simpler CAAT for z/OS
- - In House?

• The Challenge – Support Perspective
- As you know z/OS Support is no easy task
- - Troubleshooting with support of historical logs?
- - Trending Graph?
- - Real time system utilization?
- - Can I get an aerial view of system?
- - Alerts on performance degradation?
- - Remote support?
- - Support for Smart device?
- - Back track the Chain of events?

• At any z/OS Shop Issues
- z/OS Professionals play multiple roles and work with many tools to collect a variety of data
- Retrieving z/OS system information and logging usually consume productive time
- Using available information to make better and quicker decisions is not easy
- Comparing system information with the past to understand the trend isn’t straight forward
- Generating various reports from different data logs is difficult

• What do we offer?
- A Tool which:
- - Can be Configured and Scheduled to capture Critical systems related information
- - Can Simplify interpretation of complex z/OS control blocks and data areas
- - Can Compare scans and generate reports
- - Can Integrate with other existing tools (Health Checker and SDSF etc.)
- - Saves time and effort on daily routine tasks
- - Can be used as Scheduler, Live Monitor, Alerts, Report generator
- - Provides Dashboard with critical information
- - Is easy to install and maintain
- - Is not heavy and does not use too much MSUs
- - Can be accessed through TABLETS, MOBILES, LAPTOPS

• zSAT Architecture
- Uses a 3-tier Architecture Model, and comprises the following components
- - Host – zSAT’s nucleus includes supporting services to collect system data based on user configurations
- - Web Server – Handles information requests and presents data graphically
- - Client – No Client software need be installed, Compatible with any web browser on any smart device
- zOS security system (RACF) controls access to zSAT

• zSAT Functions
- zSAT does the math / formatting for you
- Web based GUI
- - Intuitive and easy-to-use GUI system analysis tool for zEnterprise professionals
- - Dashboard: One place to look out for critical information, configurable

• zSAT Collects  
- Configuration file controls the collected entities and the frequency
- RACF Details
- IPL Parameters
- PARMLIB Details
- JES2/3 Configuration
- DASD Volume Info
- CATALOG View
- Language Environment
- SMF/RMF configurations
- TCP/IP
- USS
- Virtual Storage Map
- Health Checker
- Workload Manager

• zSAT Software Functions
- zSAT Compares
- - Capture, Log and Compare entities to identify differences between two checkpoints
- Trouble shoot quicker
- - Allows quick error detection with comparison view of past and current system checkpoints
- Print / Export as PDF
- - Options to print or export the compared results
- Easy Navigation
- - Easy navigation of vital system details
- Generate Reports
- - Generate reports for Audits and Management
- DASD List View
- - Provides graphical display of DASD usage details
- Monitoring Facility
- - Provision to monitor CPU Utilization, more in the making
- System Snapshot (Manual)
- - Provides options to customize and collect required information
- SDSF Console Interface
- - Handy interface for read only commands for experienced users
- SDSF Panels
- - Graphical interface to view Job Status, Spool volumes, System Requests, WLM Resources, Scheduling Environments etc
- Health Check Facility
- - Allows to view active values, settings and helps identify potential configuration problems in the system
- Virtual Storage Map
- - Provides a snapshot of virtual storage map, “The Line” and “The Bar”
- TCP/IP
- - Provides the list of active TCP/IP Connections, Listeners, statistics, list of connected users etc.
- Workload Manager
- - Allows to view various WLM definitions and its active data
- Unix System Services (USS)
- - Allows to view all active USS users, various file systems (HFS & ZFS) defined in the system and its properties

• Key Benefits of zSAT
- Saves analysis time and effort
- Facilitates easy configuration, without requiring additional client software
- Effective and Efficient navigation and representation of vital system details
- Enhanced Comparison Views
- Powerful Graphical Reporting
- System Health indicators using IBM Health Checker
- Dashboard for critical information
- Email Alerts

• zSAT Prerequisites / Installation
- PC
- - IE 9 or above
- - Firefox 21 or above
- - Chrome 27 or above
- - Safari 4 or above
- - Minimum 2GB RAM
- z/OS
- - Any current version of z/OS
- - RACF rules need to be defined
- - TCP/IP port
- - Startup procedure (JCL)
- - FTP server
- - Web Server (Optional to be on HOST)

• zDVI - Dump Viewer for ALCS

• zDVI for ALCS - Introduction
- ALCS stands for Airline Control System, a market proven online transaction processing system
- It supports HLASM and was recently enhanced for language C/C++
- Most airlines dependent on ALCS have plans to migrate their HLASM based applications to C/C++ as part of their modernizing initiatives
- ALCS runs under z/OS and has a built-in mechanism to capture, categorize and represent error conditions, but doesn’t come with a viewer
- ALCS programmers run customized JCLs to extract and format error information from tapes, which may run to 100s of pages
- Users spend more time in searching for information than in solving the dump

• zDVI Functions
- Modern, Lightweight Interface
- - zDVI-ALCS is a simple-to-use, web-based GUI that improves efficiency when analyzing dumps
- Intuitive organization of dump data
- - Enables programmers to quickly and effectively assess dumps in a few clicks
- Simple Yet Effective
- - Point-and-shoot features makes chasing memory blocks quicker

• zDVI Key Benefits & Future Plans
- Quicker Dump Analysis
- - Ensures significant time-saving for programmers, leading to improved work efficiency and reduced company expenditure
- Intuitive to use
- - Simple to install and explore, no steep learning curve
- Supports analysis of HLASM and C/C++* dumps
- - Only tool for ALCS dump analysis
- zDVI for CICS, IMS
• zIDE Pro

• zIDE Pro - Introduction
- zIDE Pro is a legacy-friendly development and management tool for multi-platforms like z/OS, z/Linux, and z/VM - Features:
- - Microsoft Office Fluent Interface®
- - Multi-Platform Compile, Build
- - Easy interpretation and navigation to errors/warning
- - Library View
- - File Compare utility to compare any two files side-by-side
- - Automatic file backup
- - Powerful Search feature
- - Context-Sensitive Language Help
- - ISPF-like command prefix feature
- - Ability to Look at JES2/3 Jobs and more

• zIDE Pro - File Management Features
- Host Files Views
– Browse and access remote host files from multiple hosts in single IDE
- PC Files Views – Browse and access local files
- Remote host files can be transparently copied back to host
- Drag and Drop ability to transfer files to/from different project folders or PC
- Powerful Search of z/OS datasets, USS file system, z/Linux directories, and files locally

• zIDE Pro - Editing/Coding Features
- Library Interface & Project
- - Support integrates with any source control management software to get, edit and promote source
- Legacy Editing
- - X-EDIT/ISPF Editor function supported
- Context-Sensitive Language Help

• zIDE Pro - Advanced Editor Features
- File Compare facility:
- - Allows comparison of any two files side-by-side, with the differences highlighted color
- Syntax Highlighting:
- - To detect typographical errors
- Enable Binary File Editing
- Provide Automatic Local Backup

• zIDE Pro - Compile/Build/Load Features
- Highly intuitive Compile, Build and Load functions
- Intelligent compile/build operation
- - Targets (e.g. DEBUG, PRODUCTION)
- - Automatically detects the correct process and libraries
- Compiler/Job Output
- - Color-coded compiler output; displays the compiler errors in different color codes for easy recognition
- Easy interpretation and navigation to errors and warnings
- - Double-click errors and warnings in output to automatically open source and navigate to offending source line
- Ability to look at JES queue

• Key Benefits of zIDE Pro
- Saves coding time
- - More familiar GUI interface, especially for newer programmers
- - ISPF/XEDIT-like commands ease transition of power users
- - Easier to detect errors while coding
- - Efficient, intuitive compile/load/build process (buttons)
- Saves training time
- - Works like other Windows applications
- Promotes quality/standards
- - Middleware component allows to promote company standards and procedures

• A live demonstration of the various products was given.

• Speaker Contact Information:
- Thiru Thirupuvanam of TPF Software
- - 3737 Glenwood Avenue
- - Raleigh, NC 27613
- - Phone: 919-676-5501
- - Email: thiru@tpfsoftware.com
- Nagaraj Krishnamurthy of TPF Software
- - Phone: 214-295-5149
- - Email: nagaraj@tpfsoftware.com

www.tpfsoftware.com
product.support@tpfsoftware.com

• The Presentation and Meeting Ended About 9:07 PM.

Treasurer’s Report for November 2014

contributed by Tommy Thomas

The balance in the account is $435.97 as of November 17, 2014.

SPARTA Financial Report
3/01/2014 through 11/17/2014

INCOME

Opening Balance	0.00
Total Deposits
Dues	680.00
Close RBC	329.15
TOTAL INCOME	$1009.15

EXPENSES
Food	566.27
Web Site	111.46
xfer to Petty Cash	0
Bank Service Charge	0
TOTAL EXPENSE	$677.73

BANK BALANCE Fidelity	331.42
PETTY CASH	104.55
TOTAL CASH	$435.97

Items of Interest

SPARTA Schedule and Menu for 2014

contributed by Tommy Thomas and Chris Blackshire

Dec 2 - Subs

Dec. 30 - No Meeting, Happy Holidays

Key Functions in z/OS Version 2 Release 1

contributed by Ed Webb

"z/OS Version 2 Release 1 helps you minimize downtime and achieve higher performance and availability. But are you exploiting z/OS to the maximum benefit for your enterprise?

This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on some of the key features of z/OS. The focus is mainly on z/OS Version 2 Release 1, but key features from earlier releases are also covered. This book concentrates on enhancements in the areas of hardware support, communications, security, data management, batch modernization, and other selected z/OS functions.

Each chapter describes what a feature is and the value it can bring to your business. Use cases help illustrate how each feature can be used, and leading practices offer advise on how to best take advantage of each feature."

You can review the contents of this exploitation-oriented Redbook draft here.

Save The Date! SCMG in Raleigh on April 17, 2015

contributed by Ed Webb

SAVE THE DATE! There will be a Southern Region Computer Measurement Group Meeting On April 17th, 2015 at Fidelity in Durham!
The Spring meeting of the Computer Measurement Group will take place on April 17th at New Millennium Way, the Fidelity Investments offices in Durham.

Three Quick Steps to Prepare for a Transitioning Workforce

contributed by Ed Webb

"If you regularly read tech news you’ve likely seen a host of complimentary articles, blog posts and retrospectives surrounding the 50th anniversary of the IBM mainframe. The positive recognition is well deserved—and long overdue. As the primary computing platform for financial institutions, insurance companies, government agencies and telecoms, mainframes help power our global economy. This fact alone should hush any lingering predictions about the mainframe’s demise once and for all—if it weren’t for one troublesome trend: the retiring mainframe workforce.

Behind every mainframe are talented and experienced developers who manage highly complex mainframe applications. Thousands of these baby boomer developers are expected to retire in the next five to 10 years, taking both their platform knowledge and their institutional knowledge with them. Fortunately, thus far the retiring mainframe workforce issue has proved to be a slow erosion over time rather than some type of drastic drop off.

No matter where your company sits in that continuum, here are three simple steps you can take to help reduce the impact moving forward:”

Learn what the three steps are here.

Do You Really Want to Know How Your VTS (Virtual Tape System) Works?
contributed by Ed Webb

"....

Anyway, there is a point to my discussing my dyslexia here, and it relates to my highly tuned ability to sniff out when people are making stuff up to skirt around the fact that they don't have a good answer to the questions you’re asking them.

....
Today, after several years, I see many z/OS sites rolling out Virtual Tape Servers (VTS). The rationale behind these units is to move backup tapes, which are an integral part of the z/OS fabric, onto disk, where problems such as inefficient tape usage can be managed without the need to look at jobs that nobody has touched for 20 years.
....
If you listen to the folks pushing out VTS units, you would think they are the magic bullet that can rid the enterprise of the scourge of native tape once and for all; the VTS is the “smoke and mirrors” that allows tape to remain an integral part of the z/OS fabric without having any tape. It is the phenylalanine that allows you to drink Coca-Cola all day without having to run for 10 miles after work to burn off the sugar calories."

Read the whole article from Enterprise Systems Media writer Gerard Nicol here.

SHARE Announces Keynote Speakers for Seattle in 2015

contributed by Ed Webb

The New Generation Mainframe is Here on Monday, March 2, will be presented by Ross A. Mauri. He is the General Manager for IBM System z. In this capacity, he is responsible for all facets of IBM's System z business worldwide including strategy, architecture, operations, technology development and overall financial performance.

The Security Gap on Tuesday, March 3, will be presented by Philip Young is an Information Security Specialist at Visa Inc. where his main passions are z/OS and z/OS security.

Check out the details about these topics and these keynote presenters here at www.share.com.

Humor

Lawyers

contributed by Chris Blackshire

A very successful attorney parked his brand new Porsche 911 Turbo in front of his office, ready to show it off to his colleagues.
As he was getting out, a truck came barreling down the road, drifted right and completely tore off the driver's door. Fortunately, a cop was close enough to see the accident and pulled up behind the now door-less Porsche with his lights flashing.
Before the cop had a chance to ask any questions, the attorney started screaming hysterically about how his precious Porsche, which he had just purchased the day before, was completely ruined and no matter how any car body shop tried to make it new again, would never be the same.
After the lawyer finally wound down from his rant, the cop shook his head in disbelief, "I can't believe how materialistic you lawyers are," he said, "you are so focused on your possessions that you neglect the most important things in life."
"How can you say such a thing?" asked the lawyer.
The cop replied, "Don't you even realize that your left arm is missing?  It was severed when the truck hit you!"
"OH, MY GOD!" screamed the lawyer. . . "My Rolex is gone!"

Membership Information

Don’t Forget the Next SPARTA Meeting

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

7 p.m.

LabCorp in the RTP

Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto 1912 T.W. 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 Tommy Thomas. Tommy will escort you to the conference room.

Free Food: Subs, Drink, Dessert

Program:

System z in a Mobile World

Speaker:

Garry Grandlienard of IBM

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