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From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-08-15
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: What the CoBIT framework does is establish minimal guidelines for data center operational documentation -as distinct from the actual operation. by Paul Murphy; Tags: IBM Mainframe, PC, Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Data Management, Help Desk, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Call Centers, Desktops, Storage, It Operations, Hardware, It service Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-08-15
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeInsidious BMThe widespread Microsoft use combined with the creeping IBM invasiveness appears to indicate a competition within the organization which IBM is currently winning. Probably a comeback.Murph has also mentioned that there are substantial external contracts providing services and capabilities in...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp., data-processing, diamond, meat, Murph, IBM mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-08-08
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: The thing that's most striking about the "heavy lifting" carried out by the typical zSeries based data center in 2006? There have been changes in execution, but not in role or overall management methods, since the 1920s - thus what we see today is the same old same old,...; Tags: ibm mainframe, data center, mainframe, data-processing, ibm corp., hrips, data center staff, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, paul murphy; Blog posts 2008-08-08
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeUnderpaying the budget analystLess than $40,000? Is this a trainee?Gotcha momentWith the profusion of detail unconnected to any conclusion, strange to compain about missing information. Still, a sentence like this:In addition, the requirements shown for the project manager position contain...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, COBOL/VSE, IBM Corp., IBM mainframe, data-processing; Discussion threads 2008-08-01

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: An introduction to the "human resources" component of the typical data processing center we've been exploring. by Paul Murphy; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Financial, Project Manager, Data-processing, Experience, IBM IMS, IBM DB2, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Business Experience, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-08-01
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhose employees?Having done my bit for peace and understanding on other Comments, I've arrived here for edification. (My time on ZDNet is of course billed to charity, volunteer work in the community.)Because of the IBM Global Services connection, might be worthwhile...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., IBM mainframe, data-processing, mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: The controls that developed around the 360 environment were all predicated on the primary concerns expressed by Finance management: that nothing interrupt processing critical to Finance. Thus virtually all of them derive from, or are subsidiary to, the service level agreement. by Paul Murphy; Tags: SLA, IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., CoBiT Framework, CoBiT, Systems Documentation, Disaster Plan, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, It service Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-18
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: "Information engineering." had nothing to do with engineering, but tried to use the PC to draw, store, and link models of complex applications and auto-generate some of the COBOL code needed to implement the models using database products like IMS. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Job, IBM Mainframe, Data, Data-processing, IBM IMS, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Recruitment & Selection, Mainframes, Development Tools, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Servers, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-11
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeFault toleranceIn these two quotes, discovering a difference in word usage leads to impacable hostility:Talk about vouchers to someone in Payroll and you won’t be sharing any understanding of the term as it is used in Accounts Payable; and, of course, the...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operational accounting, IBM Corp., Murph, voucher, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: CICS and IMS, IBM's two of IBM's three original software products are still going strong - and so is the culture that adopted them in 1969. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Card, IBM Mainframe, Disk, Memory, Data-processing, Payroll, IBM IMS, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., GL, Mainframes, Operational Accounting, Data Centers, Payroll Solutions, Servers, Databases, Hardware, Finance, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-27
From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeDitch all this Cr@p!They need to simply go with Vista Server and MS Access 2008 Server! Problem solved!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comRE: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframePlease bear in mind that the 360 came out ten years before the ideas...; Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, maintenance programming, COBOL, CFrom Chapter, data-processing, pianist, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: COBOL reflects 1920s data processing methods - and because the IBM 360 implemented COBOL it became the foundation for an entire worldview - a culture founded entirely on a refusal to adapt to external change: in technology, in the mission, in anything. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Card, Application, IBM Mainframe, Financial, Physician, Mainframe, Data-processing, File, COBOL, IBM Corp., Records, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-20
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed “from the ground up” to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...; Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Mainframes, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe, content management system, IBM Corp., IBM O/S, zVSE, memory, MVS; Discussion threads 2008-06-13
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Program, Job, IBM Mainframe, Operating System, Environment, Mainframe, Instruction Set, Memory, Data-processing, Hardware, CPU, Unix, Computer, COBOL, Machine, IBM Corp., System 360, APL, JCL, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-13
BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...; Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-06
BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-06
BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeThe function, then the how.A discussion beginning: State population totals were derived from individual census tract results by... would create a context. As a narrative strategy, reaching a goal is more organized, satisfying, than describing a process and giving...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Orwell, IBM Corp., data-processing, hypothesis, mainframe, IBM mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-05-30