Mainframe Update

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an easy way to combine data from all the different databases and files that exist on a mainframe, as well ...

I enjoyed a recent article by Ken Milberg in IBM System Magazine's Mainframe EXTRA called "The Gen Xer's Guide to the Mainframe...

The Virtual IMS Connection ( www.virtualims.com ) user group recently surveyed IMS users about IMS and their plans for the future. The resul...

I blogged about saving money with specialty engines on mainframes a couple of weeks ago, and I was taken to task over some of my conclusions...

Moving on from last week’s blog about the different hardware manufacturers whose boxes you’d find in a data centre, this week I’d like to lo...

What’s in a data centre? The answer must be IBM mainframe boxes of various sorts, mustn’t it? But the truth is that the data centre, since t...

Mainframes have always been expensive. The hardware is expensive in the first place, and the software is expensive to run on it. That’s the ...