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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...
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 challenges that this new offering aims to mitigate, what’s changing, why should you act now, how IBM and this offering can help,...
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) 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: Of Wildcards, Regular Expressions and Mainframe Security An interesting article the...
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 tpfrtmc offline utility to monitor JVM data from up to 10 z/TPF processors. As...
When Catastrophe Strikes, Recover Data With Ease
This blog focuses on the dire circumstances of a catastrophic recovery involving the entire system. There is a companion blog, Recover Quickly With Surgical Precision, that focuses on isolated recovery from the IBM Z Cyber Vault. The IBM Z Cyber Vault solution for...
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…
Recover Quickly With Surgical Precision
Resiliency is an integral part of the IBM Z platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault solution is a concept for addressing data corruption whether through malicious intent, human error or failure of hardware or software. It provides an air gapped backup of the operating...
Why microbenchmarks are not suitable for performance analysis
What are microbenchmarks, and how do they differ from real-world programs? Microbenchmarks are very small programs that test a small number of operations in a loop, often as little as an individual computation. They're different from real-world programs in that the...
How to solve the Data Privacy issue for test data
You may be aware of data privacy regulations such as Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or California’s CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) that, among other things, ban you from using production data with personally identifiable information, such...
Why IBM Z Is Fit for Business Purpose
Some people say that IBM Z is “fit for purpose” but I believe a better description is that it’s fit for business purpose. The purpose of Z is business—because it’s reliable, efficient, and secure. This is an important distinction to make because at...
