Work Stuff
Technology links:
Tips & Tricks Tounge in cheek look at how to write unmaintainable code.
IMS IMS stands for Information Management System 
The IMS Home Page.  Introduces the "family" of products.
MQ Series MQ stands for Message Queue (well, that's my guess). 
There is a reasonable overview of MQ Series, but briefly, MQ Series "...provides assured, once-only delivery of messages".
FPI File Programmatic Interface. 
Here is the only reference I can find to this so far.
DB2 There are gateways to DB2 from: 
    Oracle
    Informix
    Sybase ...
TCP/IP products Zephyr do a 3270 emulator over TCP/IP
CVS CVS is a file version management system. 
CVS is developed and supported by Cyclic Software
Here is the on-line reference documentation.
CORBA I've given CORBA a page of it's own here.
Methodologies etc. Rational has downloadable PDF versions of the UML documentation.
Other Consultants I've heard people call them 'the androids', not that I'd ever do such a thing.