Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough…
Bridging Two Worlds: Mainframes and Clients
In Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View I wrote of the way that computers have evolved from the mainframe era of…
Avoid IT overconsumption and reduce your CO2 footprint
The footprint of IT has reached the same levels today as the global CO2 emissions of global air traffic. Furthermore,…
DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge
The speed of digital transformation is already impressive and will only increase. To put this in very concrete terms, consider…
Don’t Tell the CFO!
The general view that mainframers have of senior financial staff in an organization is that they are people who want…
Db2 for z/OS EXPLAIN: What an Access Path Is, and What it Would Be
The EXPLAIN functionality of Db2 for z/OS, by which the query optimizer’s access path determinations are externalized, has been around…
IBM Mainframes: the enterprise computing platform that led to the evolution of the modern “Cloud Computing Technology”
As strange as it may sound to many, but people need to get their fact straight – that IBM Mainframes…
Find Defending the Mainframe Difficult? Go on the Offensive Instead!
A Guide to Debunking Mainframe Myths, Criticisms, and More Why is defending the mainframe so difficult? One reason is that…