Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10 views
Fidelity Information Systems (FIS) has put in place a strategy for integrating its myriad payment systems. This is centred on a ‘wrapper’ approach, using the newest of its offerings, its Nomad Software-derived Cortex debit and prepaid card system. Cortex is intended to provide a web services layer and standard look and feel. Functionality will be moved into this layer so that the back-end systems will increasingly become pure transaction engines.
FIS covers both the acquiring and switching sides of the sector. There is some overlap between the applications but the positioning is reasonably clear. On the switch side, the eFunds-derived Connex is one of FIS’s long-established workhorses. It runs on Hewlett-Packard’s Tandem-derived NonStop or IBM zOS platforms, with flat files or DB2, and is written in Cobol and Assembler at the back-end.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 1 views
DB2 10 for z/OS delivers out-of-the-box savings, unsurpassed resiliency, rapid application and warehouse deployment and enhanced query and reporting … READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 336 views
Are you a DB2® professional challenged by your business to conform to regulatory pressures such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance initiatives? Is your security officer asking about encryption? Are you concerned about the impact of encryption on application performance, availability and your ability to maintain service levels? These are valid concerns, and now you can learn how one major telecommunications company addressed them through a successful encryption implementation. (READ MORE)
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 752 views
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 216 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 Monday, February 8, 2010 - 269 views
Even as IBM battles NEON in court in an effort to squelch zPrime, another upstart is emerging on the mainframe scene, TmaxSoft, which is about to introduce a System z version of OpenFrame, promises to duplicate key z/OS functionality, … MORE
Posted by Mike on Friday, January 8, 2010 - 225 views
The past year was busy for the mainframe and those of us who make our living from it, and 2010 will likely be just as hectic.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 126 views
This change of attitude has given new life to the COBOL programming language as well. Many organizations are re-purposing their COBOL applications for the … MORE
