Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile
Part 4: New Online Processing and Data Storage This is Part 4 of a 5-part series about how mainframe shops…
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FICON CUP and Advanced Diagnostics
The FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) provides an in-band management interface defined by IBM that defines the channel command words (CCWs) that the FICON host can use for managing the switch. The protocol used is the IBM version of the…
Turn Out The Lights…The Party’s Over! Mainframes Rout Commodity Servers!
Big Lie Revealed: Commodity Servers Not Cheaper Than Mainframe For decades, CIOs have been sold the Big Lie that running…
Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile
Part 3: New Online Processing This is Part 3 in this five-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the…
Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile
Part 2: Forklifting in a new solution In this first part of this series, we looked at what typical legacy…
Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile
In today’s multi-platform, multi-OS and multi-data format corporate computing environments, there is a high demand to make the mainframe systems…
6 Ways Mainframe In-memory Technology Can Save You
When people hear talk about in-memory technology, they immediately assume the discussion revolves around Big Data and analytics being run…
Does working on a mainframe make you happy?
We’re all familiar with the ups and downs of daily life working on a mainframe, but does it make you…
The Five-Point Mainframe Transformation Leadership Checklist
Despite utterly foolish predictions to the contrary, the mainframe persists as the core computing engine for global commerce. That’s because…
DB2 for z/OS – Taking the Best Data Server on a Transformational Journey
Business transformation and agility are critical in today’s fast moving world. Clients demand insights faster, more often, and with greater…
Chronic Mainframe Migration Strategy
Some fun started with an interesting article from Chris O'Malley on LinkedIn a few months back about chronic mainframe migration…