Mainframe Update

You’re probably familiar with the service management joke, and it’s a fairly weak joke at best, but it does contain within it a horrible gra...

Who says mainframes are hard to use and integrate with other systems? Well, it seems just about everyone who hasn’t spent long periods of ti...

Back in 1978 Jeff Wayne released his musical version of H G Wells’ 1898 classic The War of the Worlds – and I’d like you to be humming the ...

I was blogging about IMS a couple of weeks ago and at the time I was thinking that there wasn’t a lot of Web-based resources available for I...

Finding out how your database is performing and what activities took place has traditionally been an historical activity. By that I mean ac...

With the recent announcement of Version 10 of IMS, I thought it would be quite interesting to take look at what IMS actually is, before seei...

So what is the difference between a back-up and an archive? Don’t both copy data somewhere so it can be restored at a later time if necessar...