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I don't know if you're still following this message string, but... Acronis True Image uses file compression by default when it makes a backup image. As you're going through the configuration prompts for a backup, you'll find one labeled " Choose Backup Options", with 2 radio buttons: "Use...

Thanks, guys! The conversion table seems to be the way to go. I won't, however, be able to get to it within the next few days, but I will let you know how it works out when I do have the time to pursue it. RichinMinn

I'm having some issues with the data which is being read by a COBOL program on an IBM MVS mainframe. Is it possible to display the data (text and numeric, that has been read from an input file) in hex format? Is it simply a matter of moving the data to a 'USAGE NATIONAL' field and displaying...

Thanks, guys! That is exactly what I did, and everything seems to be working fine! Rich (in Minn.)

My wife just got an HP Mini 2140 "netbook" (with Intel Atom 1.6 gHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 128MB HD, etc.) and I went through the software installation (Windows 7 Starter version, HP drivers, Corel Office). I got her connected to the Internet via an Ethernet connection. I've since encountered several...

A friend contacted me with a problem she's having: every time she boots up her system, the system date is set to a year of 2003, with the month and day changed as well (though I can't tell you what they are, since she didn't tell me). She sets the date to the current date, and all is fine...

Here's the code that I ended up using: (WORK-FIELD is used for inspecting a number of different-length fields, ranging from 20 to 300 bytes. The length of field to inspect is contained in MAX-LEN. If, for example, MAX-LEN has a value of 20, only the first 20 bytes of WORK-FIELD need to be...

IBM Mainframe COBOL: I've got a 300-character work area where I insert an alphanumeric string and then determine the beginning and ending non-space characters of the string so I can determine the number of characters in the string. I've got the 300-character work area indexed to speed the...

Platform: IBM MVS mainframe running DB2 v9 Given: a table contains a column which is defined as VARCHAR(20), and which is nullable Question: Which is more efficient (or simply better for whatever reason): 1) to use the NULL indicator to indicate the absence of a value in that particular...

I've got a COBOL program that has been running fine for about 9 months. I made a slight SQL change to it, necessitated by changing our DB2 v. 9 from compatibility mode to enable-new-function mode. Now I'm getting an XML-CODE value of 417 on the 'XML GENERATE' function, and I can't find any...

Vista needs significantly more CPU power, memory, and disk space than XP did, so be sure to get a system with a dual-core 64-bit processor, at least 2 (but preferably 3+) gigabytes of RAM, and a 120-160 gigabyte hard drive. Another thing to do is to get a copy of PC Decrapifier...

Tony, Yes, that did it! The LCD's still not working, but at least I can see everything on the CRT, which will have to do for now. Thanks for your assistance. Rich (in Minn.)

I'm working on a friend's old laptop, which is an IBM ThinkPad 390E. The system hadn't been powered up for several months, but with the AC adapter attached, it booted up just fine. I went into the BIOS setup, and saw that the startup video setting was set at 'CRT', which was OK since I had an...

I built a PC for some friends a couple of years ago. It worked fine for several weeks, then suddenly refused to shut down when you wanted it to, instead rebooting the system. They've lived with it like that since then. I'm reinstalling Windows (XP Home) on the system, so I thought that I...

What part of your system was affected in the crash you experienced? Was it the motherboard? You said that you chose to upgrade the motherboard at this time, but was that because it was kaput, or because you were having to tear things down to replace other parts, so you decided to replace the...

Mixing different speeds of memory is usually asking for big problems. Sometimes the system won't even boot; sometimes it'll boot, but will be unstable once it's up. However, if you set the system memory settings to match the slower memory being used (i.e. run all memory at 533), it may run...

Do your Maxtor drives simply "spin down" and go into an "idle" mode, or do they physically power down (shut off)? If they go into an idle mode, they are still drawing current (though, obviously, not as much as if they were spinning merrily along). I am an advocate of turning things off if...

SATA hard drives are just a bit faster than most IDE hard drives. Unless it is specified otherwise, SATA moves data at 150 Mbps (Megabits per second), unless your SATA controller supports SATA3.0, in which case the data transfer rate is doubled (3.0 Mbps). Most IDE hard drives transfer data at...

Dugger69: Another thing to bear in mind is that if you replace the 2 internal optical drives with 1 hard drive and 1 DVD-ROM drive, both drives will be accessed at the same (slower) speed. An IDE hard drive is usually accessed at speeds of ATA100 or ATA133 (100 or 133 Mbps - Megabits per...

In response to kmcferrin: The Dell Optiplex GX150 was originally configured with a 1-GHz Celeron or a 1.13-GHz Pentium III CPU, 256 MB of PC100 SDRAM, a 10-GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive, on-board video 4MB of shared memory, on-board audio, LPT port, 2 COM ports, 4 USB ports...