Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 252 views
After years of sliding my security card in the lock and entering the machine room/data centre and seeing the mainframes in there change from Sci-Fi-style boxes with flashing lights to more mundane-looking boxes. From seeing simple DASD with less capacity than the memory stick in this laptop be replaced with cache controllers and more sophisticated data storage devices. It always seemed that there were plenty of mainframes around and any normal person (me) was constantly being offered tours round installations. So it comes as a bit of a shock when a youngster clearly has no idea what a mainframe looks like or what it does!
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 340 views
Even after ten years of successful mainframe deployments, people and organizations not familiar with mainframe Linux often still see the operating system as suitable only for commodity hardware. While Linux indeed runs beautifully on x86 hardware, it is hardly limited to that platform. If you have ever wondered whether Linux can handle complex and scalable mainframe workloads, read on for the exciting truth about Linux/mainframe synergies.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 20, 2010 - 312 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.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 363 views
IBM’s upcoming z/OS 1.12 mainframe operating system addresses a problem some mainframers have had for decades.
For some mainframe users, the major bonus is that the operating system, which is due out in September, addresses application availability. The z/OS 1.12 release offers a new control-area reclaim capability for VSAM key-sequenced data sets (KSDS). READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 190 views
IBM is upgrading its mainframe operating system with features that help customers predict failures and reduce the time it takes to recover from performance. READ MORE
