Mainframe apps
While a large chunk of the world seems to think that mainframes are out of date and barely hanging on…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience
Part 1 of 4: The Basics At the end of 2016 and lasting a few months into 2017, I completed…
Help! Lost on Z!
Is it a misconception that mainframe professionals find it hard to get help? When we talk about non-mainframe technology, there…
Demystifying Cloud for Mainframe Managers
The IBM 360 mainframe made its debut in April 1964. With the unprecedented ability to perform 229,000 calculations per second,…
Multi-Factor Authentication Has Arrived – The Mainframes Are Ready
Retinal scans. Face recognition. Fingerprint scanners. Spoken phrases. Randomized pins. Those cool full-body laser scanners from the movies. Science fiction…
The Great Disconnect
Do CICS programmers / JavaScript programmers know what it is they’re working on? Sure they know how their programs work…
Q: Meltdown, Spectre (and new variants) – how best to cope?
A: Become a Grandmaster at Whack-a-mole! “…used with reference to a situation in which attempts to solve a problem are…
RegTech to the rescue…
(How to best defend yourself from the tidal wave of new Regulations.) Regulatory Alphabet Soup The veritable tidal wave of…