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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 310 views
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 venerable old organization avoid being put out to grass and stay ahead of the business game? How does it become synonymous with cloud computing, smarter planet, and data analytics? I guess the answer is by completely re-inventing itself.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 662 views
How many times have you come away from a conference or a presentation and thought wow, that was really useful? Perhaps one small nugget of information from the speaker has opened a door for further development of work at your site. And most technical presentations are full of gems of information – both for the novice user and those more technically experienced.
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Posted by Mike on Sunday, February 13, 2011 - 496 views
Now I’m not here to tell you what software to buy and what to ignore, but if you haven’t had a look at IBM’s Transactional Analysis Workbench software yet, I think you should. It’s one of those pieces of software that kind of joins up the dots and allows you to see the bigger picture when you thought there was a performance problem. It can help identify performance issues in one subsystem – CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ, or even z/OS itself – when the symptoms of the problem are appearing in a completely different subsystem.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 932 views
It’s so easy to forget, or just take it as read, that mainframes have been able to successfully run with five nines availability for well over a decade. What that means is achieving 99.999 percent of scheduled uptime. In other words, it means that unscheduled downtime is less than five and half minutes in a year! Now that kind of amazing performance is something that boxes running other operating systems can only dream of. Some are working towards that level of availability, but others (you know who I’m thinking of here) aren’t even close.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 437 views
With so much of IBM’s software now in its 40s, it’s no wonder that using it requires quite a lot of knowledge. And many people have developed a whole range of nifty tips and tricks that they can use when things go wrong or to help make things work better. That’s where user groups come in. A user group provides an opportunity for people to share their hints and tips with others, and, in return, learn some tried-and-tested new ones.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 9, 2011 - 937 views
This is the time of year when people make predictions for what we can expect to see in the coming year, so here are my predictions…
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 20, 2010 - 338 views
As this will probably be my last blog of 2010, I thought it would be traditional to review what’s happened in the mainframe world over the past year.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 826 views
CA Technologies released a survey on Wednesday entitled “Mainframe as a Mainstay”. The survey was conducted on 200 senior level US-based mainframe executives by Decipher Research. Amongst the results was the information that 73% of respondents confirmed that the mainframe is – or will be – part of their organization’s cloud computing strategy. The question posed at CA’s recent webinar was whether that result came as a surprise.
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