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As we all tighten our belts in these uncertain economic times, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared to prove the value
of IT to the business. This month’s leading feature shows you how to quantify cost/benefit and show ROI, and other articles will enable you to work smarter, including
another installment of the Dear Rocky column. You’ll also read about CICS® and WebSphere® MQ's role in Smart SOA™, and smarter development in the form of pre-built industry content packs. Another way you can save big is by answering the Call
for Speakers at Pulse 2009. All accepted client submissions will receive a full conference pass ($2,195 value), and chance
at a photo op with 2008 Olympian Michael Phelps. But hurry, the deadline is November 7!
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Michael O’Neill, Managing Editor
Features and product updates
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How to get your IT projects approved in a down economy
Recent economic events may make it more critical for you, your IT team, and your management to prove your value to the business. Mark Edwards shares how to quantify the costs and benefits of IT resources, and the concept of return on investment (ROI).
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Dear Rocky: Tivoli OMEGAMON® response tips and DASD impact
Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in Tivoli® R&D, answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions, offering valuable tips to help you get more out of your Tivoli monitoring software.
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CICS, MQ and WebSphere Application Server: z/OS updates fuel Smart SOA
IBM delivers smarter technology and smarter IT alignment to business needs with System z software, such as CICS, WebSphere
MQ and WebSphere Application Server. IBM Director Rick Thomas shares how – with the latest updates to these z/OS®
products.
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Security update: Centralize encryption key management on System z and reduce manual tasks
Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS lets you store and manage encryption keys from the IBM System z platform to reduce manual effort and automate key registration, changes and updates, explains product manager Gordon Arnold.
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Create new value from System z assets, reduce costs with Web technology
Portals deliver personalized information, applications and business processes via the Web. Program Director Bob Bunzey shares how you can extract new value from System z assets with IBM WebSphere Portal for z/OS V6.1 and Web 2.0.
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In the news
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Buyers guide: IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z
Select the right service management solution to simplify end-to-end operation, service and IT infrastructure management.
Download no-cost buyer’s guide (PDF)
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IMS utilities and database administration tools
IMS™ High Availability Large Database (HALDB) Toolkit, IMS High
Performance Pointer Checker, IMS Index Builder, and IMS Library Integrity Utilities updates
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to IBM Tools news
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DB2 9 for z/OS performance topics
Learn about the performance impact of DB2® 9 for z/OS, especially performance scalability for transactions, CPU, and
elapsed time for queries and utilities.
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Clearing the air on cloud computing
By David Dworkin, Solutions Executive, Cloud Computing, IBM Software Group
Banking and finance:
Tapping the mainframe as enterprise-wide electronic payment hub
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