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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 117 Views
You are babysitting a mainframe. The iPod listening 20 somethings don’t want to dig into the legacy code. You are reluctant to involve the IBM-savvy specialists and their new BMW work wagons. And for good reason. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 1 Views
IBM is furthering its push to position Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) as a key component of its legacy modernization business, bridging customers to Java.
“Fundamentally, IBM is using EGL as the broom to sweep up many of the stray cats and dogs [3GL languages] of the last several decades as a first step to modernization,” said Gartner Research vice president Dale Vecchio.
IBM uses EGL as a replacement language that it says will help organizations reduce third-party ISV licensing costs as well as the number of licenses required on the mainframe, Vecchio said. EGL targets COBOL, Natural and other languages that were commonly used to write business applications in previous decades. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 161 Views
Flashback to the 1980s, when IBM is still shipping source code for big-iron internals, says this mainframe pilot fish.
“IBM discontinued supporting BTAM under CICS, but we had a major customer who communicated via CICS BTAM,” fish says.
Translation: The big customer uses the CICS transaction-processing system, and connects to it over telecommunication lines using the very old BTAM protocol — and IBM has just stopped supporting that approach. READ MORE
Editor’s note: Sharky is one of my favorite ComputerWorld features!
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 181 Views
In April 2009, IBM announced DB2 9.7, the newest version of DB2 database management system, which contains many new features for increasing performance, reliability and ease of use; lowering management costs; enhancing workload management; and adding compatibility with Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures and other Oracle-specific functionality. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 58 Views
I was at IBM at the time that IBM itself seemed to declare the death of the mainframe era. Analysts and companies alike claimed that the mainframe was dead, to be replaced by client/server computing. Around two and a half decades later, the mainframe is still around and it is still one of the largest and most profitable businesses IBM has. Far from being dead, it is now a showcase for some of the most cutting-edge technology density, energy management, and cooling technology in the market. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 140 Views
Interested in DB2? This group is for you! Fans of all DB2 versions on all platforms (DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows, DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for i5/OS) are welcome.
DB2 is IBM’s flagship database management system designed to handle both relational data as well as data stored as XML documents. The hallmark characteristics of DB2 are world’s best proven performance, virtually unlimited scalability, unmatched reliability and security.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 320 Views
IBM layoffs in the mid-Hudson numbered into the hundreds Tuesday, and by 9 p.m. the company had eliminated nearly 2,500 U.S. positions.
A source with knowledge of the layoffs said the bulk of the cuts would be over by Wednesday. Hardest-hit are IBM facilities in the South and West, according to the source. READ MORE
Editor’s note: Sad….
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 86 Views
Although the mainframe revenue for IBM suffered in 2009 because of its upgrade cycle, the introduction of the new z10 System platform continues to be the best open system. Yes that is correct, the mainframe is the most open system available because it runs all types of workloads, of course the legacy standards of Assembler, COBOL, PL1 etc. but also C++, C#, java, PHP and the rest of the languages that run on UNIX and Windows boxes. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1 Views
Vendor lock-in for software is coming to an end, but what comes next is far from certain.
For nearly two decades there has been a race to create customized applications that can fit a particular business unit’s needs. For many companies this was viewed as a competitive weapon, a way of adding efficiency and speed into a business process that captured a company’s specific needs.
IBM’s mainframes suffered more because of a concern over vendor lock-in than because of inefficiency or performance.
Posted by Mike on Friday, February 19, 2010 - 333 Views
Neon Enterprise Software has expanded its mainframe lawsuit against IBM after it provided ’specific examples’ of how Big Blue is allegedly abusing its monopolistic position
Neon Enterprise Software has shown no signs of backing down in its legal challenge against IBM, after it amended its lawsuit to give specific examples, which according to Neon executives, illustrates Big Blue’s monopolistic behaviour in its mainframe business. READ MORE
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