New issues of two excellent journals focused on IBM z/OS.

z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter has published its 16th issue (February 2007 ), covering topics as “Perform amazing new data processing tricks with DFSORT“, by DFSORT specialist Frank Yaeger, and “IMS DLIModel utility“, a tool to assist IMS DBAs and application programmers in eliminating the need to manually create the Java metadata class required by the IMS JDBC connector.

z/Journal has published its February/March 2007 edition where there are some interesting articles, as “Mainframe Transactions in a SOA“, where Joerg Rehr explains how to deal ACID with WS-*.