We know what COBOL stands for
Posted by Mike on Sunday, February 5, 2012
Linus Torvalds released Linux on 5 October 1991, and by 1998 IBM was experimenting with it. In 2000 it was properly available on mainframes – along with the specialty processor IFL (Integrated Facility for Linux). The rest, as they say, is history.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A Georgian College computer programming student is a master of the mainframe.
At least that’s what IBM is saying, as second-year student Nathan Voth placed second in IBM’s Master the Mainframe contest.
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.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, December 11, 2011
There was a time when using the trace facility was really the final strategy. You’d perhaps have tried everything else to find what was going wrong first. And when nothing seemed to have worked, you’d equip yourself with all the necessary manuals – and that could be quite a few – and run the trace and start the hard job of interpreting the results. And then try to fix the problem. Those days are long gone thanks to more modern software tools, but, to many people, the memories linger on!
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Seven in 10 businesses are now seriously concerned about the financial and operational impact of the worsening mainframe skills shortage.
Posted by Mike on Monday, November 21, 2011
DETROIT, Nov 21, 2011 — Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, today released the results of an independent research study conducted by Vanson Bourne* into mainframe use in the enterprise. Key findings from the international survey indicate that a retiring mainframe workforce is exposing enterprises to rising costs and increased business risks.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, November 13, 2011
This week, for a change, I’m publishing a blog entry from Peter Goldberg, a senior solution architect at Liaison Technologies, a global provider of cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions based in Atlanta. He works directly with customers to identify their unique data security and integration challenges and helps to design solutions to suit their organizations’ requirements. A frequent speaker at industry conferences on eBusiness security issues and solutions, he can be reached at pgoldberg@liaison.com.
Posted by Mike on Monday, November 7, 2011
IBM has made good on its promise to deliver Windows integration with the IBM mainframe via the zEnterprise System.
When IBM introduced the zEnterprise in July 2010, the company also announced plans to deliver additional general-purpose blades for the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension including IBM System x-based blades running Linux in 2011. IBM also suggested it would support Windows, and in April 2011 it confirmed its plans to deliver Windows support on z/Enterprise.
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