Mainframe Update
Sunday, 31 July 2011
All change!
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It’s been a funny old week. IBM offering apps for mobile phones instead of sticking strictly to big iron, and Google buying a slew of IBM pa...
Sunday, 24 July 2011
IMS – getting better all the time
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IBM’s IMS (Information Management System) has been around since 1968 and originated as a bill-of-materials program for NASA’s Apollo program...
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Command economies, decentralization, and the z114
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It comes and goes. It’s like a pendulum swinging in one direction, running out of steam, and then swinging in the completely opposite direc...
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Sunday, 10 July 2011
He CICS, he scores!
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Sadly, as a title, it only works if you’re in the parts of the world where CICS is pronounced ‘kicks’ and where people play football (and ge...
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Where do the tablets go?
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So, your organization has a mainframe – had one for years – and everything is nicely locked down. You can recover almost up to the minute th...
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
What’s a mainframe, Daddy?
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After years of sliding my security card in the lock and entering the machine room/data centre and seeing the mainframes in there change from...
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Sunday, 19 June 2011
IBM – C
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IBM celebrating its 100th birthday makes you think you should write its age in Roman numerals – which is what I did in the title. How does a...
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