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…
The New Era of Mainframe and Mobility
How proven technology is the only technology for the global mobile paradigm It’s no secret—the disparaging things we hear behind closed doors and in darkened IT lunch rooms, the rumors that the mainframe is dead or, at the very least,…
Big data – big opportunity
You’ve heard people talking about it and finally your organization has decided that there is a business case for going…
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…
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…
It’s about time!
DB2 z/OS V12 is in the Early Support Program mode. This means the larger Independent Software Vendors (BMC, CA, Compuware,…
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…
Enterprise Cloud Computing in the New Millennium
A recent study found that 70% of enterprises have either applications or infrastructure running in the cloud today—that’s up 12%…