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When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions - the greater the density the shorter the durability. For example, information carved in stone is not dense but can last thousands of years, whereas today’s silicon memory chips can hold their information for only a few decades. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have smashed this tradition with a new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips and preserve this data for more than a billion years!

Longpela Expertise, a System z Mainframe technology company, today announced the launch of their new z/OS Systems Programmer training package.

Moving away from the traditional classroom course, this package provides one-on-one mentoring with a senior Systems Programmer. Each week, the student and teacher informally discuss issues and problems directly relating to the student's current workload.

BOISE, Idaho – April 28, 2009 – H&W Computer Systems, Inc. (H&W) today announced Day One support for
its software running under IBM’s CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, release 4.1 (CICS 4.1). Day One support
is part of H&W’s ongoing commitment to assure customers that its software will be ready to integrate
smoothly into their environment, no matter how soon they choose to upgrade. This support is available for
H&W’s SYSB-II, SYSD, CPMS, WebTek, SYSJ, SYSM, and Wizard Mail software.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is currently performing MARKET RESEARCH to determine the availability of an International Business Machines (IBM) Mainframe Z/OS compatible software product to identify Customer Information Control System (CICS) application resources and their interdependencies for the purpose of supporting continuous availability within the CICS environment.

The software product must possess the following characteristics:

• Ability to run under z/OS 1.10 or later.
• Ability to run with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3.2 or later.

SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval, ShopzSeries, the Boulder 'testcase' server, and other service related servers will change public internet IP addresses beginning May 3, 2009. These IP address changes may require customer action to ensure uninterrupted downloads of products and service, and uploads of problem related diagnostic data.