Preventing Job logs:

To prevent a job log from being produced at the completion of a batch job, you can specify *NOLIST for the message level text of the LOG parameter on the
Batch Job (BCHJOB),
Submit Job (SBMJOB),
Change Job (CHGJOB),
Create Job Description (CRTJOBD), or
Change Job Description (CHGJOBD) command.

If you specify *NOLIST for the message text value of the LOG parameter, the job log is not produced at the end of a job unless the job end code is 20 or greater. If the job end is 20 or greater, the job log is produced. For an interactive job, the value specified for the LOG parameter on the SIGNOFF command takes precedence over the LOG parameter value specified for the job.

Lotus Notes – Paragraph Styling:

Paragraph Styles allow you to define a group of settings for font typeface, size, colour, line spacing, bullets, etc, and you can then apply all of those settings at once to the paragraphs you select.

The first thing you need to do is create the new style(s) you want to use. Begin by typing out a few sentences and then apply the formatting choices (font, spacing, colour, etc) that you want to use in the future. Once you have things looking the way you want, select the text and press ALT+ENTER to bring up the Text Properties Box. Click on the last tab, and click Create Style, then enter the name you wish to use.



Now any time you want to apply your awesome new style you can do so from either a) the menu "Text - Apply Style", b) the Styles tab of the Properties Box (shown above), or c) By pressing F11 to cycle through the available styles.

Changing the Name of the Cell Comment’s Author:

By default, each cell Comment includes the author's name.


To change or cancel the name of the Comment's author:


1. From the Tools menu, select Options, and then select the General tab.

2. In User name text box, change or clear the user name.

Pugh Matrix:

Refers to a matrix that helps determine which items or potential solutions are more important or 'better' than others. It is necessarily to be done after you capture VOC (Voice of Customer) and before design which means after product planning QFD (Quality Function Deployement).

It is a scoring matrix used for concept selection, in which options are assigned scores relative to criteria. The selection is made based on the consolidated scores. Before you start your detailed design you must have many options so that you choose the best out of them.

This tool is also known as 'Criteria Based Matrix’.

The Pugh matrix is a tool used to facilitate a disciplined, team-based process for concept generation and selection. Several concepts are evaluated according to their strengths and weaknesses against a reference concept called the datum (base concept). The datum is the best current concept at each iteration of the matrix.

The Pugh matrix allows you to

1. Compare different concepts

2. Create strong alternative concepts from weaker concepts

3. Arrive at an optimum concept that may be a hybrid or variant of the best of other concepts

The Pugh matrix encourages comparison of several different concepts against a base concept, creating stronger concepts and eliminating weaker ones until an optimal concept finally is reached. Also, the Pugh matrix is useful because it does not require a great amount of quantitative data on the design concepts, which generally is not available at this point in the process.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI):

The American National Standards Institute or ANSI is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide. For example, standards make sure that people who own cameras can find the film they need for that camera anywhere around the globe.
ANSI was formed in 1918 when five engineering societies and three government agencies founded the American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC). The AESC became the American Standards Association (ASA) in 1928. In 1966, the ASA was reorganized and became the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI). The present name was adopted in 1969.
ANSI's membership comprises government agencies, organizations, corporations, academic and international bodies, and individuals. In total, the Institute represents the interests of more than 125,000 companies and 3.5 million professionals.
Though ANSI itself does not develop standards, the Institute facilitates the development of American National Standards, also known as ANS, by accrediting the procedures of standards developing organizations. ANSI accreditation signifies that the procedures used by standards setting organizations meet the Institute's requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process.
The Institute is the official U.S. representative to the two major international standards organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), via the U.S. National Committee (USNC). ANSI participates in almost the entire technical program of both the ISO and the IEC, and administers many key committees and subgroups.

Analog, Digital and HDTV:

¬For years, watching TV has involved analog signals and cathode ray tube (CRT) sets. The signal is made of continually varying radio waves that the TV translates into a picture and sound. An analog signal can reach a person's TV over the air, through a cable or via satellite. Digital signals, like the ones from DVD players, are converted to analog when played on traditional TVs.
This system has worked pretty well for a long time, but it has some limitations:
• Conventional CRT sets display around 480 visible lines of pixels. Broadcasters have been sending signals that work well with this resolution for years, and they can't fit enough resolution to fill a huge television into the analog signal.
• Analog pictures are interlaced -- a CRT's electron gun paints only half the lines for each pass down the screen. On some TVs, interlacing makes the picture flicker.
• Converting video to analog format lowers its quality.

Broadcasting is currently changing to digital television (DTV). A digital signal transmits the information for video and sound as ones and zeros instead of as a wave. For over-the-air broadcasting, DTV will generally use the UHF portion of the radio spectrum with a 6 MHz bandwidth, just like analog TV signals do.
DTV has several advantages:
• The picture, even when displayed on a small TV, is better quality.
• A digital signal can support a higher resolution, so the picture will still look good when shown on a larger TV screen.
• The video can be progressive rather than interlaced -- the screen shows the entire picture for every frame instead of every other line of pixels.
• TV stations can broadcast several signals using the same bandwidth. This is called multicasting.
• If broadcasters choose to, they can include interactive content or additional information with the DTV signal.

HDTV is simply the highest of all the DTV standards. The lowest quality digital format in HDTV is about the same as the highest quality an analog TV can display. But whether you see a high-definition picture and hear the accompanying Dolby Digital® sound depends on two things. First, the station has to be broadcasting a high-definition signal. Second, you have to have the right equipment to receive and view it.

Excel Tip – Reducing the used area:

The vertical scroll bar gets shorter as the used area of a sheet grows larger, making it inconvenient to use.

Reducing the size of the used area also reduces the size of the workbook.

To reduce the used area:

1. Find the last cell that contains data in the sheet.

2. Delete all rows after this cell, as well as the columns to the right of the cell that do not contain data.

3. Press Ctrl+S to save the file. The address of the last cell in the used area is updated when the file is saved.

AJAX:

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. AJAX is a type of programming made popular in 2005 by Google (with Google Suggest). AJAX is not a new programming language, but a new way to use existing standards. With AJAX you can create better, faster, and more user-friendly web applications. AJAX is based on JavaScript and HTTP requests.
AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
Advantages
• In many cases, the pages on a website consist of much content that is common between them. Using traditional methods, that content would have to be reloaded on every request. However, using Ajax, a web application can request only the content that needs to be updated, thus drastically reducing bandwidth usage and load time.
• The use of asynchronous requests allows the client's Web browser UI to be more interactive and to respond quickly to inputs, and sections of pages can also be reloaded individually. Users may perceive the application to be faster or more responsive, even if the application has not changed on the server side.
• The use of Ajax can reduce connections to the server, since scripts and style sheets only have to be requested once.

Process Acceptance Certificate:

A certificate or other document that is completed immediately prior to a new or modified process being accepted into the live environment for business use. It provides a degree of confidence that all required activities have been undertaken to ensure that the service is capable of being delivered to the process owner's satisfaction.

Incomplete tasks should be recorded here as should the degree of risk to which these shortcomings are now exposing the business. Based upon that information, the decision can be taken as to whether the new or changed process should be released into the live environment.

Automated Clearing House:

Automated Clearing House (ACH) is the name of an electronic network for financial transactions in the United States. ACH processes large volumes of both credit and debit transactions which are originated in batches.

ACH credit transfers include direct deposit payroll and vendor payments. ACH direct debit transfers include consumer payments on insurance premiums, mortgage loans, and other kinds of bills. Businesses are also increasingly using ACH to collect from customers online, rather than accepting credit or debit cards.
Uses of the ACH payment system
• Debit card transactions
• Direct deposit of payroll, Social Security and other government benefits, and tax refunds
• Direct debit payment of consumer bills such as mortgages, loans, utility bills, and insurance premiums, rents, and any other regular payment.
• Business-to-business (B2B) payments
• E-commerce payments
• Federal, state, and local tax payments
• Bank Treasury management departments sell this service to business and government customers

DB2 – Buffer Pool:

A buffer pool is an area of storage in memory into which database pages (containing table rows or index entries) are temporarily read and changed. The purpose of the buffer pool is to improve database system performance. Data can be accessed much faster from memory than from a disk. Therefore, the fewer times the database manager needs to read from or write to a disk, the better the performance. The configuration of one or more buffer pools is the single most important tuning area, since it is here that most of the data manipulation takes place for applications connected to the database (excluding large objects and long field data).

By default, applications use the buffer pool called IBMDEFAULTBP, which is created when the database is created. The DB2 database configuration parameter BUFFPAGE controls the size of a buffer pool when the value of NPAGES is -1 for that buffer pool in the SYSCAT.BUFFERPOOLS catalog table. Otherwise the BUFFPAGE parameter is ignored, and the buffer pool is created with the number of pages specified by the NPAGES parameter.

Add Recipients to Group in Address Book:

Either while reading an email message, or when it is selected in a folder/view, choose "Actions - Add Recipients - to new Group in Address Book".




You will be presented with the following dialog box where you enter the group's name, type (normally you just leave this as Mail only), description, and select/de-select with members you want the group to contain.




When you press OK, Lotus Notes will automatically create a new mailing group (some people call them distribution lists) in your Personal Address Book, which you can access from the "Groups" view.



Now when creating an email or calendar entry, you can simply enter the group name instead of typing in all the names individually. For example, if I named the group above "IBM Executive Team", then I could enter than in the To field...




and when I press F9 to refresh the document, the group name will be replaced with the names of the members.

Affiliated Retailer:

1. An independent retailer that purchases products and services from a cooperative wholesaler.

2. Independent retailer who affiliates with other independent retailers under a common trade name for merchandising purposes. A group of such independent retailers will advertise under this common trade name.

Well known examples of affiliated groups are SUPERVALU, Certified Grocers of California and Independent Grocers Association in the United States.

Excel Tip – Move to the last (or first) cell in a range:

• Vertically from top to bottom, press Ctrl+Down Arrow.
• Vertically from bottom to top, press Ctrl+Up Arrow.
• Horizontally from left to right, press Ctrl+Right Arrow.
• Horizontally from right to left, press Ctrl+Left Arrow.

Using the mouse

Double-click one edge of the selected cell when the mouse image changes to four directional arrows.

Day Light Saving (DST):

The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project."

The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates.

According to some sources, DST saves energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1975 showed that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances. Similarly, in New Zealand, power companies have found that power usage decreases 3.5 percent when daylight saving starts. In the first week, peak evening consumption commonly drops around five percent.

There may also be an economic benefit to DST, as daylight evening hours encourage people to go out and shop, potentially spurring economic growth.

For more information please visit
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

Advanced-Shipping Notice:

A communication using electronic data interchange (EDI) that manufacturers use to notify wholesalers or retailers about future shipments.
In the EDI X12 system, it is known as the EDI 856 document. The ASN can be used to list the contents of a shipment of goods as well as additional information relating to the shipment, such as order information, product description, physical characteristics, type of packaging, marking, carrier information, and configuration of goods within the transportation equipment. The ASN enables the sender to describe the contents and configuration of a shipment in various levels of detail and provides an ordered flexibility to convey information

SPAM, SPIM and SPIT:

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
SpIM is a term that has recently been coined to refer to spam sent via instant messenger programs, such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ. Someone who sends instant messenger spam (SPiM) is referred to as a spimmer, again a play on the term spammer.
SPIT (Spam over Internet Telephony) is one of the foreseen future forms of spamming that Internet authorities are preparing for today. With the increasing use and dependence on the Internet for communications and data transfer, malicious software programmers have taken advantage by creating VoIP bots with the ability to harvest data and advertise massively at a very small cost. These advertising methods include email spams, SPIMS or spams over instant messaging applications, malicious bots that generate pop up ads, initiate redirects, etc.

Poisson distribution:

The Poisson Distribution is a discrete distribution which takes on the values X = 0, 1, 2, 3,... It is often used as a model for the number of events (such as the number of telephone calls at a business or the number of accidents at an intersection) in a specific time period. It is also useful in ecological studies, e.g., to model the number of prairie dogs found in a square mile of prairie.

The Poisson distribution is determined by one parameter, lambda. The distribution function for the Poisson distribution is f(x) = exp(-1*lambda) lambda^x / x!

Inventory Turnover:

Definition: How many times during a period that a business sells its inventory and replaces it.

Also Known As: Turns, Stock Turns, Stock Turnover