Embracing In-Memory Processing for Optimizing Performance
Organizations are always encouraging their IT professionals to obtain the highest level of performance out of their applications and systems.…
Optimizing Mainframe Data Access
Nobody can deny that the amount of data that we store and manage continues to expand at a rapid pace. A recent study by analysts at IDC Corporation concludes that the size of what they call The Global Datasphere will…
Mainframe systems help to keep things going in a pandemic
While many of us are in pandemic mode—hopefully most people who CAN work remotely ARE working remotely. Unfortunately, some folks…
Streaming z/OS IT Operational Data with IBM Z Common Data Provider
In today’s business world, the pressure to deliver faster to be "in the business", the importance to reduce outages and…
DOCKER, Containers and Containerization
With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
RPA + Mainframe? Don’t Send Your Technical Debt to Loan Shark Territory
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is among the hottest enterprise technologies today, as it promises simple automation of a wide variety…
Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View
The Mainframe Era In 1970 I joined a company, Databank Systems Ltd, that operated a national network of 6 computer…
New Year, Old Stuff; And New…
What can I say? I'm an old guy and I like old stuff. The best example of this is my…
Fear the Mainframe
For many years, it seems, management and the distributed IT team have, more-or-less, ignored the mainframe. The mainframe has been…
The 5 Key Factors for Database Performance
IT organizations are always chasing better performance. This involves monitoring, tuning, and improving all aspects of the IT infrastructure, encompassing…