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…
Mainframes don’t need SIEMs, do they?
Mainframes come with plenty of security – why should they use a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), when it…
Mainframers are starting to ask questions about security – and that’s a good thing
IT security crises are forever making business headlines. In 2017 it was the high profile ransomware attacks and huge data…
The Modern and Mobile Mainframe
Without revealing my age, I got my first mainframe job back when terminal emulators were a new idea. They were…
Analytics – now – and in the future
It has been going on for decades on the mainframe The future is about doing it better in multi-platform environments…
Easy access to IBM Z information with IBM Doc Buddy
IBM Doc Buddy enables you to search error messages of IBM Z software products in both the online or offline…
If it isn’t broken…
(Legacy systems – their role – their future.) I used to run a company which specialized in providing so-called Direct…