Part 1 of Reg’s article was published last week. Nothing Exceeds Like Success That’s right: last week’s article brought you to this point, the gist of what we need to be preparing for. If, as I have suggested, the mainframe is on its way to becoming a definitive...
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: What Makes CICS, a Mixed Language Application Server, So Special? An interesting article...
Innovation in Our Genes “Thank you, Gene!” My fellow-nerd and I were just passing through an automatically-opening door, and he was pointing out the role of Star Trek, and therefore of its creator Gene Roddenberry, in having inspired many innovations we now take for...
The acronym “SaaS” first appeared in 2001 as a revolutionary concept. Now, Gartner predicts the SaaS market will reach $116B in 2020. As SaaS concepts are brought to the mainframe, what will the market look like in another 20 years? What if you could dynamically and...
Let me start by telling you a story… Once there was a big town and everyone went to school and learned to read and write and they bought and shared books. They liked reading. Then, some of the townspeople decided that it would be beneficial for everyone if the town...
Have you seen the recent headlines? Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims (CNN 04/08/2020) and An Ancient Computer Language Is Slowing America’s Giant Stimulus (Bloomberg 04/13/2020). These...
The mainframe community is rightly proud of our platform’s ability to accelerate digital transformation and protect enterprises against growing cyber threats. The IBM mainframe’s security, resiliency, and scalability are exactly what is required to deliver growth...
IMS Connect (ICON) is the TCP/IP gateway for IMS. So, besides running the traditional IMS transactions on z/OS, an IMS programmer/DBA can now leverage applications running on the distributed side of the world (a JAVA Web Application, for example) to be able to easily...
Nobody can deny that the amount of data that we store and manage continues to expand at a rapid pace. A recent study by analysts at IDC Corporation concludes that the size of what they call The Global Datasphere will reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. This data growth is...
Not too long ago, I received a note from the leader of a Db2 for z/OS database administration team, asking for my take on a Db2 12 buffer pool configuration set-up that his team had devised. An interesting characteristic of the configuration was the use of the options...
