We know what COBOL stands for
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 243 views
So, your organization has a mainframe – had one for years – and everything is nicely locked down. You can recover almost up to the minute the system or subsystem crashed (which it hardly ever does), and you’ve got people who seem to know, almost by instinct these days, when something isn’t performing quite right.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 274 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 Monday, July 26, 2010 - 303 views
By Alan Zeichick
I’m a mainframe guy. Cut my teeth writing COBOL, PL/I and FORTRAN on the IBM System/370. CICS is my friend. Was playing with virtual machines long, long before there was anything called “DOS” or Windows” or “Linux.” My office closet is filled with punch cards and old nine-track tapes, all probably unreadable today. One of the happiest days of my professional life was trading in an old TeleVideo 925 monochrome terminal for a brand-new 3279 color display.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 365 views
Owens & Minor moves Cobol-based ERP system to x86 server, Windows machines
A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie.
In it, the crew of the Enterprise discovers a huge, intelligent cloud they called “V’ger.” It turns out (plot spoiler alert), though, that V’ger was an unmanned spacecraft called Voyager that had been launched from Earth some 300 years earlier and then readapted by alien forces.
That Star Trek movie was released in 1979. The Cobol-based ERP application suite used by Owens & Minor Inc., a medical supply company, began its life in the 1980s as a packaged application. Over time, the company adapted the ERP software to meet its specific needs, creating a highly customized system with 10 million lines of code. (READ MORE)
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 4,137 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 Friday, January 8, 2010 - 614 views
Scan through IT news on any given day, and there’s a good chance you’ll find a story about some large organization or another replacing its IBM mainframe with servers running UNIX, Linux — and sometimes even Windows.
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