Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2012 is now available for download from www.arcati.com/newyearbook12 – and it’s FREE. Each new Yearbook is always greeted with enthusiasm by mainframers everywhere because it is such a unique source of information. And each year, many people find the results of the user survey especially interesting. And this year, for the very first time, survey respondents indicated that, at their sites, more data was stored off mainframes than on.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, January 14, 2012
Every year, about this time, mainframe users are excited to get their hands on the latest edition of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. What makes the Yearbook stand out is that it’s an excellent reference work for all IBM mainframe professionals – no matter how many years of experience they have.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
COBOL has a certain seniority in the IT world. Nobody can get it to retire—and nobody can find a replacement either.
The question of when COBOL will meet its demise has been debated for years now. But there is general agreement that the Common Business Oriented Language, first developed in 1959, will be alive and kicking well into this century.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 8, 2012
We start the year with another in our series of SharePoint hints and tips from our expert Darren Pritchard. This time he’s looking at how to sucessfully audit SharePoint site collections.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, January 2, 2012
State officials responsible for paying vendors and public employees are eager to replace an accounting system used for nearly two decades – before it crashes.
The Department of Administration’s General Accounting Office has managed to keep the system running, even with frequent glitches, but state Comptroller D. Clark Partridge said he doesn’t know how much longer it will hold.
“We’ve done a very good job of avoiding failure,” Partridge said. “When does that string snap?”
The office handles state finances through the Arizona Financial Information System, or AFIS. In 1992 the department spent $3.2 million on the COBOL, or Common Business-Oriented Language, program developed in 1959 to run the system.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 19, 2011
Well, as another year comes partying to an end, and everyone stops checking their e-mails on their smartphones or tablets and finally starts to let their hair down and enjoy a glass of something alcoholic, I thought I’d review the year through the lens of my company – iTech-Ed Ltd (www.itech-ed.com).
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 5, 2011
I remember many years ago saying to my children that one day, when they walked around London or any capital city, they’d be able to hold up their phone in front of a statue or building and information would appear on screen explaining what the statue commemorated, etc.
But how about if you could hold up your phone in front of the mainframe or some x86 server, and on screen would appear statistics about usage and performance? You could then take appropriate action to resolve hot spots and capacity issues. All just a dream? Apparently not.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Innovative application development methodology produces portable Web applications
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