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Mainframe News Out There

Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: Customers Don’t Care About Open Banking An interesting thought in an article on Compare the Cloud...

A view from the C-level

A view from the C-level

New mainframe technologies that will make a difference to your business Be honest: what do you really think of IT?  Most C-level execs think of it, at best, as a cost center to be minimized. Others go even further, thinking it arrogant, pushy, dictatorial, and...

Controlling Costs, or Leaving Money on the Table?

Controlling Costs, or Leaving Money on the Table?

I am the CFO of one of the most long-lived mainframe software companies on the planet. The company has been around for 40+ years, it has been profitable for almost all of that time, and its products are running in the mainframe datacenters of many of the world’s...

Db2 12 In-Memory Feature: Fast Index Traversal

Db2 12 In-Memory Feature: Fast Index Traversal

Db2 12 is classified as an in-memory data base by Gartner.  It is not just a simple in-memory data base but a very smart one. In this paper, we explain one of the most innovative in memory optimizations in Db2 12. Why In-Memory Optimization in Index?  The...

Is the Mainframe Dead?

Is the Mainframe Dead?

No. But it has been a victim of friendly-fire. I’m not sure that there is a headline relating to IT and enterprise software more cliché than the one at the top of this article. Cringeworthy? Perhaps, particularly If you’re in your 4th decade in the mainframe and...

Creating the Future by Slashing Complexity

Creating the Future by Slashing Complexity

Mainframe users have a problem: finding people with the right skills to service their mission-critical systems. It isn’t language: learning COBOL and PL/I is relatively easy.  The difficult part is understanding the logic of systems built by programmers who...

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Rocket Software Survey Reveals Only 27% of Organizations are Extremely Confident in Mainframe Security Compliance Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, has released the findings of its...

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Mainframes by the Numbers

Mainframes by the Numbers

Since you’ve found your way to Planet Mainframe, you probably know that mainframes are the IT workhorses of big business. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to even imagine the past several decades of commerce without the mainframe doing its thing, mostly...

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Utah’s Office of Recovery Services Moves from COBOL to Cloud in 18 Months Utah’s Office of Recovery Services (ORS) is responsible for both collecting child support payments across the state and ensuring public funds are used appropriately. For 24 years it has relied...

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History of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

History of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

For a long time, mainframes seemed like a safe room where a company’s most precious data possessions would be secure. But while mainframes still present unique challenges to bad actors, the days of mainframe impenetrability are most definitely over. Ever since the...

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Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority and More

Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority to Accelerate and De-risk Modernization in Critical Tax Infrastructure Kyndryl, IBM’s managed infrastructure services business spin-off, has signed an agreement to manage a proportion of HMRC’s (His Majesty’s Revenue and...

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Mainframe Security Trivia

Mainframe Security Trivia

For a long time, the perception that mainframes are inherently secure probably made life quite a bit easier for hackers than it really needed to be.  Back in the pre-internet world, corporations could probably afford to treat mainframe security as an...

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