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.