Planet Mainframe

Scaling Up Credit Card Authorizations Volume with CICS API

Large banks and global payments processing companies specializing in commercial transactions processing need to substantially scale the volume of credit card authorizations for mobile and web point of service applications. Typically, their core transaction systems are running on IBM Z…

JCL

How to prevent job failures through advanced JCL checking and more

A new IBM offering IBM Z JCL Expert was just announced, learn more here. In this blog you will learn about the client…

Mainframe News Out There

Feb 24, 2022
Admin
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Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough…

Mainframe

Real-time runtime metrics collection multiprocessor JVM monitoring (APAR PJ46608)

PJ46275 provided the ability for the tpfrtmc offline utility to monitor JVM data from a single z/TPF processor. PJ46608 provides the ability for the…

Storage

When Catastrophe Strikes, Recover Data With Ease

Feb 10, 2022
Butch Rambish
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This blog focuses on the dire circumstances of a catastrophic recovery involving the entire system. There is a companion blog, Recover…

UDFs

Db2 User-Defined Functions (UDFs)

A user-defined function, or UDF for short, enables you to customize Db2 to your shop's requirements. It is a very powerful feature that can be used to add procedural functionality, coded by the user, to Db2. The UDF, once coded and...