Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 1,147 views
I don’t know whether you’re going to be at the SHARE conference in Anaheim (California) from 27 February to 4 March, but one of the interesting things to see is the William Data Systems stand (booth 211).
They are showing how their ZEN z/OS network management suite of product integrates with popular smart phone technology – Apple, Blackberry, and Android. What you’ll see is ZEN monitoring z/OS networks and then reporting the results to a mobile device. The user can then evaluate what’s happening on the mainframe and take appropriate action immediately. As a consequence, z/OS support staff can get on with their lives and be out and about, but still be able to monitor their mainframes and react to alerts.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 309 views
The City Council voted to approve funding to upgrade a computer mainframe system that’s more than 35 years old.
The $3.5 million technology upgrade will bring the city’s business into the Internet age, ending the need to rely on 2.6 million lines of coding necessary to update the website.
The city’s chief information officer, Peter Wallace, had warned that Chesapeake’s information technology was long out of date and recently said he was worried about a future “total breakdown” related to antiquated technology: police radios that couldn’t send alerts, power outages shutting down the city’s information grid and a technology work force retiring with no one qualified to replace them.
COBOL, the program the city has been using, is not taught in schools anymore, which makes hiring new employees a challenge, Wallace said.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 358 views
Every year, about this time, we welcome a new edition of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. It really is the standard reference work for all IBM mainframe professionals – whether they’re grizzled old-timers nearing retirement or that new batch of recently graduated enthusiasts, and everyone in between.
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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.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 294 views
… within organizations, when they are trying to decipher the glyphs found in their information systems (whether in relational databases, cobol copybooks, edi files, xml or even rdf/owl files …
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 331 views
Welcome to MainframeCOBOL.Info.
With this site, we hope to provide a common place for information about a common business-oriented (programming) language… COBOL.
There’ll be news, information, links, and helpful articles about COBOL.
At the moment, we’re still coding this site on our 80 character programming sheets in the design phase, so please check back again soon.
