What is container pricing?
Container Pricing, which was introduced in late-2017, is a new pricing solution that makes scaling workloads more economical. Container Pricing…
z/os
Lightning Fast I/O via zHyperLink and Db2 for z/OS Exploitation – Part 2
Last week we ended with Db2 Performance of zHyperLink Read. Now let’s look at the CPU cost of zHyperLink read. As explained last week, I/O operation is now synchronous to CPU with zHyperLink and SQL processing spins while waiting for…
Always On: Achieving continuous availability for non-data sharing workloads in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex
Introduction The z/OS Parallel Sysplex® technology provides a highly reliable, redundant, and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems…
9 ways to Master the Z
So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or…
A Lack Of Expertise Does Not Force You To Abandon The Mainframe
“Quick! Abandon the mainframe. …Oh, and by the way, buy a bunch of our platforms and services for millions of…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.4
Part 4 of 4: The Value and Future In Part 1 The Basics, Part 2 The Good and Part 3…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.3
Part 3 of 4: The Bad As I’ve explained in Part 1 Basics and Part 2 Good, I did a…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.2
Part 2 of 4: The Good I provided a simplistic overview of what I intended to port to Linux for…
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…
Easy access to IBM Z information with IBM Doc Buddy
IBM Doc Buddy enables you to search error messages of IBM Z software products in both the online or offline…
What’s waiting round the mainframe corner?
Anyone who has been working on mainframes for any length of time knows that things are always changing. Many people…