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…
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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 have lost their jobs at least temporarily, and are hopefully receiving financial assistance from one or more levels of government.…
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…
Mainframes, containers, and Linux
We all know why mainframes are good – all that reliability, availability, and security stuff that we’ve been hearing about…
IT Security is Business-Critical: And I Hate it…
Okay, that's it - I hate IT security. And I really think that many folks in IT are actually like…
Import your existing TCP/IP profile
Learn how to import your existing TCP/IP profile into the Network Configuration Assistant Starting with z/OS V2R2, the IBM Configuration…
Security complacency: is your mainframe at risk?
This has been a fine summer. And I’m not talking about the weather: I mean the whopping fines proposed for…
The Value of Choice in FICON Storage Area Networking
Having a choice means having options to select from. Most of us like to have a choice when it comes…
Summer – the season for cyber attacks
Keeping your mainframe secure is probably one of your top priorities. You’re looking at cryptography and introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA).…