Posted by Mike on Monday, February 8, 2010 - 90 Views
Even as IBM battles NEON in court in an effort to squelch zPrime, another upstart is emerging on the mainframe scene, TmaxSoft, which is about to introduce a System z version of OpenFrame, promises to duplicate key z/OS functionality, … MORE
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Kuhn, 62, had hoped to retire between the ages of 55 and 60, but he’s still plugging away programming mainframe systems, mostly because he’s not in a … MORE
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It also turned out to be vastly easier to move older legacy mainframe applications to newer mainframes than to rewrite them. This, too, helped assure that … MORE
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Then came the bad news…. the interviewer smiled as he mulled over my resume, and he said he noticed that I didn’t have any COBOL experience. He asked me if I had ever taken any COBOL classes at the college, and I told him no… as far as .. MORE
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 139 Views
What the difference between:
Computer networking technology
Computer programming technology
Computer science
Computer Engineering Technology
Cobol is mainly for business and FORTRAN is usually for engineering programs. As a programmer your outlook isn’t looking to great in my opinion. MORE
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 292 Views
This is the latest edition of the classic COBOL book that has set the standard for structured design and coding since the mid-1970s. So if you want to learn how to write COBOL programs the way they’re written in the best enterprise COBOL shops, this is the book for you.
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The 33rd America’s Cup will get underway in Valencia on Monday after a host of legal disputes over the rules and the venue.
Challengers BMW Oracle of the U.S. are owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire who founded computer giant Oracle more than 30 years ago.
He became a computer programmer at Ampex, participating in building the first IBM-compatible mainframe system.
Here are a few more facts on Ellison: MORE
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 1 Views
The web, so far, is semantically implemented exactly the same way as COBOL/3270 code, circa 1970. You have a dumb datastore, managed by bespoke code, talking to a semi-smart block mode terminal. The only difference is some syntax (COBOL … MORE
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Next month, IBM will release a beta version of a software application designed to keep track of how information flows across different systems, sending alerts when source data has been altered or isn’t properly ingested into some target system or report.
The software can monitor most relational databases, including IBM’s DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases. It can monitor for data quality issues in … MORE
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While it might be more thrilling to imagine US Special Operations Forces getting critical intelligence about enemy movements through a laptop computer in the field, the bread and butter of US Department of Defense IT are mainframe computers. They have the computing power necessary to process the huge amount of information generated by the sprawling DoD bureaucracy. MORE
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