Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience
Part 1 of 4: The Basics At the end of 2016 and lasting a few months into 2017, I completed…
Mainframe apps
While a large chunk of the world seems to think that mainframes are out of date and barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth in organizations that haven’t woken up to modern computing techniques, the rest of us…
Help! Lost on Z!
Is it a misconception that mainframe professionals find it hard to get help? When we talk about non-mainframe technology, there…
Demystifying Cloud for Mainframe Managers
The IBM 360 mainframe made its debut in April 1964. With the unprecedented ability to perform 229,000 calculations per second,…
Multi-Factor Authentication Has Arrived – The Mainframes Are Ready
Retinal scans. Face recognition. Fingerprint scanners. Spoken phrases. Randomized pins. Those cool full-body laser scanners from the movies. Science fiction…
The Great Disconnect
Do CICS programmers / JavaScript programmers know what it is they're working on? Sure they know how their programs work…
Q: Meltdown, Spectre (and new variants) – how best to cope?
A: Become a Grandmaster at Whack-a-mole! “…used with reference to a situation in which attempts to solve a problem are…
RegTech to the rescue…
(How to best defend yourself from the tidal wave of new Regulations.) Regulatory Alphabet Soup The veritable tidal wave of…
Embracing the Challenges of Gaining Value from Analytics
Data volume and higher transaction velocities associated with modern applications are driving change in organizations across all industries. This has…
Mainframe news out there – March
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about…
GDPR – is your firm going to be compliant?
A summary of what you (and your Third-Parties) need to do. On April 27, 2016, the European Parliament, the Council…