FICON CUP and Advanced Diagnostics

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 (CCWs) that the FICON host can use for managing the switch. The protocol used is the IBM version of the ANSI FC-SB4 single-byte command...

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Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile

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 can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at a new online processing solution that would replace the existing online processing, but...

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Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile

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 needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at the forklift option: burning the legacy infrastructure to the ground and building it back up again...

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Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile

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 systems look like, and listed 4 ways that they can be modernized. In this post, we’ll take a close look at perhaps one of the most common solutions addressing the...

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Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile

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 work with web, mobile devices and, potentially, any device that can be connected to the Internet-of-Things (IoT), in...

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6 Ways Mainframe In-memory Technology Can Save You

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 on distributed systems, and that the database part of the discussion focuses on things like SAP HANA, TIBCO, VoltDB, or even IBM...

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Does working on a mainframe make you happy?

Does working on a mainframe make you happy?

We’re all familiar with the ups and downs of daily life working on a mainframe, but does it make you happy? Perhaps the best branch of psychology to use to see whether mainframers are happy at work is positive psychology. Positive psychology uses scientific...

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