What is the value of mainframe logs?
Mainframe logs offer essential insight into how to manage and adapt your z/OS environment. So why aren’t mainframe managers leveraging…
It’s always good to chat, especially with your mainframe
For years now, major enterprises – including banks, airlines and insurance companies the world over – have remained faithful to the mainframe to run their core business systems. No surprise, as we all know it remains one of the most…
50 Years ago in Mainframe Computing
How many computer platforms could justify a headline like that!? Well, it has been almost 50 years since NASA landed…
Mainframe Pricing: Endgame
IBM Simplifying Mainframe Software Pricing When you hear the words mainframe software pricing, what do you think of? A common…
Breach recovery – the fast and the furious!
Your organization has had a data breach. You’ve managed to confirm that it’s not a false alarm, it really is…
A Case Study: Measuring the Impact of Db2 for z/OS Buffer Pool Changes
Not long ago, a Db2 for z/OS administrator contacted me with a request. His team had made some changes to…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
Lost in translation? Why mainframers and non-mainframers need to communicate
In today’s connected world and with security high on the agenda, IT people across the enterprise have to understand each…
Getting a Client in Trouble Out of Trouble
Recently, we helped one of our clients – a large investment bank of America – to “find” 30 million dollars…
If It Ain’t Broke…
It was Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who made the phrase “If it…
Securing data in transit
One way of looking at mainframe data is that it is either at rest or in transit. Data at rest…