Mainframe systems help to keep things going in a pandemic
While many of us are in pandemic mode—hopefully most people who CAN work remotely ARE working remotely. Unfortunately, some folks…
Streaming z/OS IT Operational Data with IBM Z Common Data Provider
In today’s business world, the pressure to deliver faster to be “in the business”, the importance to reduce outages and…
Sorting Results by Specific Values in SQL with CASE
Recently I rewrote the backend for my service, Any New Books, due to an Amazon API change. Generally speaking, rewriting…
4 Tech Innovations That Could Change Smartphones
Smartphones have gotten so advanced today that it can almost be hard to tell the difference between the top options.…
DOCKER, Containers and Containerization
With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
RPA + Mainframe? Don’t Send Your Technical Debt to Loan Shark Territory
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is among the hottest enterprise technologies today, as it promises simple automation of a wide variety…
Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View
The Mainframe Era In 1970 I joined a company, Databank Systems Ltd, that operated a national network of 6 computer…