Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 29, 2011 - 367 views
I blogged about IBM’s IMS (Information Management System) at the end of July, saying that it has been around since 1968 and originated as a bill-of-materials program for NASA’s Apollo programme. I said that IMS effectively comes in two parts – there’s the Transaction Manager (TM) part and the Data Base (DB) part. I talked about different types of database, and I mentioned the Virtual IMS user group at www.fundi.com/virtualims.
Today I want to pose the questions: how much does an IMS development/test system cost? And how many development test systems does a site typically have installed?
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 162 views
To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question facing many state governments and their computer systems.
It’s a dilemma that hasn’t been made any easier by two recent examples on opposite sides of the country.
After a week when a data storage failure in a relatively new statewide system created havoc for Virginia state agencies, the final three agencies – including the 74 branches of the Department of Motor Vehicles – are expected to resume services today.
“The crash – still baffling to state officials – exposes the vulnerability of modern, massively complex interconnected computer networks,” writes the Washington Post today.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 275 views
For a musician, composer, inventor, movie buff, longtime IBM systems engineer and fan of the suit-and-tie, motorcycle enthusiast, onetime dedicated Porsche owner/driver, family man, cook, tinkerer, artist, computer geek, Web site designer, traveler, raconteur, bocce player and devotee of New Yorker magazine cartoons, Jim Bell is unexpectedly easygoing.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 281 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 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 276 views
They run under operating systems like CICS and IMS.” There was a time when there was a big difference between these enterprise systems and the PC and Web applications that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs build. …
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 272 views
The ideal candidate will have IBM COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CICS and production support experience. Lean and IDEAL experience is preferred. …
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