The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 3
The first two parts of this article: The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 1 The Mainframe Lives and Thrives…
Fear the Mainframe
For many years, it seems, management and the distributed IT team have, more-or-less, ignored the mainframe. The mainframe has been…
Lightning Fast I/O via zHyperLink and Db2 for z/OS Exploitation – Part 2
Last week we ended with Db2 Performance of zHyperLink Read. Now let’s look at the CPU cost of zHyperLink read.…
What is container pricing?
Container Pricing, which was introduced in late-2017, is a new pricing solution that makes scaling workloads more economical. Container Pricing…
Always On: Achieving continuous availability for non-data sharing workloads in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex
Introduction The z/OS Parallel Sysplex® technology provides a highly reliable, redundant, and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems…
9 ways to Master the Z
So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or…
A Lack Of Expertise Does Not Force You To Abandon The Mainframe
“Quick! Abandon the mainframe. …Oh, and by the way, buy a bunch of our platforms and services for millions of…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.4
Part 4 of 4: The Value and Future In Part 1 The Basics, Part 2 The Good and Part 3…