Upcoming Virtual CICS SessionAI and CICSDecember 18, 2026 In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses demand seamless, efficient, and secure transaction processing to keep up with evolving customer expectations and market dynamics. On IBM Z, a platform...
Upcoming Virtual IMS SessionIMS Managed ACB Mandate After 6 Months–Adapting to the New NormalNovember 11, 2025 Six months after the IMS Managed ACB mandate, the landscape for IMS administrators and DBAs has fundamentally changed. What began as a modernization...
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Historically, IT organizations have abandoned the mainframe platform for cost reasons. It's a fact, and there's no getting around that; it's true. Now whether that makes sense or not is another matter. Howard Rubin has mentioned that 68% of production workloads is...
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was obsolete, overpriced technology and that its days were numbered. It was a dinosaur. But these folks weren’t well informed, and perhaps had certain biases...
More and more businesses are introducing mobile applications as part of their business activities intended to be more competitive, to increase market share, and to increase customer satisfaction. The motivation isn't hard to fathom - creating mobile applications...
In my last article, Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads, I asked you to keep an eye out for Black Friday and Cyber Monday success and failure this year. I was really curious to see if retailers had learned their lesson from past years’ online retail disasters. ...
2015 was a great year for the mainframe business—and that was great news for large IT organizations running mainframe systems, as well as the companies that support these business sectors. The old myth that the mainframe is dead was countered by IBM with the launch of...
Michael Porter at the Harvard Business Review recently said that the Internet of Things (IoT) will deliver an economic boom as big as those delivered by computer automation and the internet. That may well happen, but we're going to have to figure out how we're going...
Why am I a Mainframer? It all started when my great uncle bought a Combine…. When I was growing up, my family and I made frequent trips to a farm on Manitoulin Island in Canada—about 250 miles north of Detroit—a remote place where farming was difficult and few made it...
