The following applies to documents referring to "best practices":
Information provided has been developed as a collection of the experiences of technical services professionals over a wide variety of customer and internal IBM environments, and may be limited in application to those specific hardware and software products and levels.
The information contained in this document has not been submitted to any formal IBM test. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a customer responsibility and depends on the customer's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the customer's operational environment. While each item may have been reviewed by IBM for accuracy in a specific situation, there is no guarantee that the same or similar results will be obtained elsewhere. Customers attempting to adapt these techniques to their own environments do so at their own risk, and in some environments may not achieve all the benefits described.
The following paragraph does not apply to the United Kingdom or any other country where such provisions are inconsistent with local law: International Business Machines Corporation provides this publication "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Some states to not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties in certain transactions, therefore, this statement may not apply to you.
This information could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein; these changes will be incorporated in new editions of this publication. IBM may make improvements and/or changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this publication at any time without notice.
IBM may not offer the products, services, or feature discussed in this document in all countries. Consult your local IBM representative for information on the products and services currently available in your area. Any reference to an IBM product, program, or service is not intended to state or imply that only that IBM product, program, or service may be used. Any functionally equivalent product, program, or service that does not infringe any IBM intellectual property right may be used instead. However, it is the user's responsibility to evaluate and verify the operation of any non-IBM product, program, or service.
IBM may have patents or pending patent applications covering subject matter described in this document. The furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents. You can send license inquiries, in writing, to: IBM Director of Licensing, IBM Corporation, North Castle Drive, Armonk, NY 10504-1785 U.S.A.
Any references in this information to non-IBM Web sites are provided for convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those Web sites. The materials at those Web sites are not part of the materials of this IBM product and use of those Web sites is at your own risk.
Information concerning non-IBM products was obtained from the suppliers of those products, their published announcements or other publicly available sources. IBM cannot confirm the accuracy of performance, compatibility or any other claims related to non-IBM products. Questions on the capabilities of non-IBM products should be addressed to the suppliers of those products.
All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
All prices shown are IBM's suggested list prices and are subject to change without notice. Dealer prices may vary.
Any performance date contained in this document was determined in a controlled environment. Therefore the results obtained in other operating environments may vary significantly. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been made on development-level systems. There is no guarantee that these measurements will be the same on generally available systems. Some measurements quoted in the document may have been estimated through extrapolation. Actual results may vary. Users of this presentation should verify the applicable for their specific environment.
COPYRIGHT LICENSE:
This information contains sample application programs in source language, which illustrates programming techniques on various operating platforms. You may copy, modify, and distribute these sample programs in any form without payment to IBM, for the purpose of developing, using, marketing or distributing application programs conforming to the application programming interface for the operating platforms for which the sample programs are written. These examples have not been thoroughly tested under all conditions. IBM, therefore, cannot guarantee or imply reliability, serviceability, or function of these programs.
| 
