4 Transformational Ideas from the Past

IBM is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year. It’s a history marked by significant innovation and change. I wanted to pause for a moment to revisit the past and think of few mainframe-related areas that have had a huge impact on business computing. Below are four technologies which I think hit the mark.
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A Real-Time, In-Memory Table Management Solution

We all know, mainframers use look-up tables in databases like DB2 or Virtual Storage Access Management (VSAM) to retrieve information and validate for business reasons. The data is these tables is usually static or does not change often. In cases like this, doing a Read of these tables impacts the performance of the application. And, in most cases, we read the complete table in program memory and do the processing. Wouldn’t it be better if we had few other options? 
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IBM Transaction Processing Facility

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Lessons from the World Cup

Sharing leadership lessons from 'Team India' which captured attention of Mr Vineet Nayar. The way Team India played and won this cricket world cup has indeed taught lot of lessons to us...Here are 10 things on leadership that we can learn:

1. Think global
2. Ignore the naysayers
3. Articulate clear goals
4. Bank on experience
5. Build the right support system
6. Renew yourself, constantly
7. Hold onto to your belief through adversity
8. Have a larger purpose
9. Stay calm in swirling waters
10. Play as a team

Here is the original link to Lessons from the World Cup from Vineet Nayar's Scrapbook.

Lessons from Randy Pausch

This is from the speech given by Randy Pausch entitled “Guide To a Better Life".He had been diagnosed for cancer and when he made this wonderful speech, he knew that he had been given only a finite span to live. Below is the extract from the speech which gives 30 valuable lessons for all of us.

Personality:

1. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment
3. Don't overdo; keep your limits
4. Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does
5. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
6. Dream more while you are awake
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
8. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more
14. You don't have to win every argument.

Community:

15. Call your family often
16. Each day give something good to others
17. Forgive everyone for everything
18. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
19. Try to make at least three people smile each day
20. What other people think of you is none of your business
21. Your job will not take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

22. Put GOD first in anything and everything that you think, say and do.
23. GOD heals everything
24. Do the right things
25. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
26. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
27. The best is yet to come
28. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
29. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
30. If you know GOD you will always be happy. So, be happy.

To the above, Ashok Soota adds:

31. Never do something which you would not like to see in newspaper headlines.
32. “When you say something you shouldn’t have said – something that you didn’t mean or that was unkind – apologize right away. The longer you wait the harder it will be.”
33. We need an optimistic approach to life. Soota is a strong believer that things will invariably work out for the greater good of all concerned and it is an attitude to have whenever things don’t appear to be going the way we would like (Point 27 flows from above).

Wishing you a Happier & more contented life!