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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...
Big data – big opportunity
You’ve heard people talking about it and finally your organization has decided that there is a business case for going down that route, but what does big data involve? What do you need to know? After all, mainframes have always been able to store large amounts of...
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...
Turn Out The Lights…The Party’s Over! Mainframes Rout Commodity Servers!
Big Lie Revealed: Commodity Servers Not Cheaper Than Mainframe For decades, CIOs have been sold the Big Lie that running workloads on commodity servers is cheaper than running them on the mainframe. Recent studies by Gartner Senior Adviser and MIT Associate Dr. Howard...
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...
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...
It’s about time!
DB2 z/OS V12 is in the Early Support Program mode. This means the larger Independent Software Vendors (BMC, CA, Compuware, etc.) have a version of DB2 z/OS V12 in house so they can modify their products to support and/or exploit the new features of DB2 z/OS V12. This...
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...
Latest
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...
Big data – big opportunity
You’ve heard people talking about it and finally your organization has decided that there is a business case for going down that route, but what does big data involve? What do you need to know? After all, mainframes have always been able to store large amounts of...
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...
Turn Out The Lights…The Party’s Over! Mainframes Rout Commodity Servers!
Big Lie Revealed: Commodity Servers Not Cheaper Than Mainframe For decades, CIOs have been sold the Big Lie that running workloads on commodity servers is cheaper than running them on the mainframe. Recent studies by Gartner Senior Adviser and MIT Associate Dr. Howard...
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...
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...
It’s about time!
DB2 z/OS V12 is in the Early Support Program mode. This means the larger Independent Software Vendors (BMC, CA, Compuware, etc.) have a version of DB2 z/OS V12 in house so they can modify their products to support and/or exploit the new features of DB2 z/OS V12. This...
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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Planet Mainframe and iTech-Ed Ltd. Announce Collaboration on Mainframe User Groups
A marketing partnership expanding access and resources for the mainframe community. [Nashville, TN, USA] — May 31 2023 — EIN Presswire - Planet Mainframe and iTech-Ed Ltd. are pleased to announce a new collaboration supporting mainframe education and community. The...
Trivia For A Mainframe Expert. Are You One?
When the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook hits the inboxes of mainframe devotees globally, it offers a chance to look back – and forward – on the ever-evolving world of Big Iron. According to Trevor Eddolls, the yearbook’s editorial director, this free resource has...
DXC Technology Migrates Lloyd’s of London’s Data Center Over A Weekend
Moving a data center from one location to another is always an intimidating - even hair-raising - proposition. But when it’s the world's leading insurance market that needs to move its data center to a new, modern facility, the project takes on epic proportions....