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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

Additional Resources

MVS Player Pro 4.50.32 (Windows)

MVS Player PRO is a DVD & DivX multi-video player which supports file formats such as AVI, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF, FLV, 3GP, MOV, HDMOV, or MKV. MVS Player can visualize 12 videos simultaneously on the screen. Best performance in video accessing only 15ms for 1.5GB video size. ...

Tags: DivXNetworks, Microsoft Windows, Video, Absoft, MVS Player PRO, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Marketing, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-06-25

10 skills developers will need in the next five years

10 skills developers will need in the next five yearsYou forgot one thing!You need to be able to work for the same or less hourly wage than someone in India, Russia, or China. Qualifications are one thing, but CEOs always go for cheaper. Being able to work for...

Tags: .NET, Scripting languages, Application servers, Programming languages, Middleware, Development tools, Microsoft .NET, skills developer, Ruby, Java, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Taking notes on your Linux laptop

Taking notes on your Linux laptopNo, but certainly part of the MS enabled ecosystem.His post reads exactly as someone who is desperate to downplay Linux while espousing that the only "real" software is Windows based. Be a shame if any of those kids wanted to learn web technologies though,...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Taking Notes, Linux laptop, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

If Blackberry Maker Eavesdrops On Itself, Who Else Gets To?

It’s good to find that R.I.M. does not actually record employee phone calls, according to a company representative contacted this afternoon by Between The Lines. Because what is so piquant about the original comment carried by Research In Motion chief information officer Robin Bienfait that she records...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Communication, RIM BlackBerry, R.I.M., Handhelds, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-06

MVS Player 4.52.18 (Windows)

MVS Player is a DVD & DivX multi-video player which supports file formats such as AVI, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF, FLV, 3GP, MOV, HDMOV, MKV. MVS Player can visualize 12 videos simultaneously on the screen. Best performance in video accessing only 15ms for 1.5GB video size.

Tags: DivXNetworks, Microsoft Windows, Video, Absoft, MVS Player, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Marketing, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-03-06

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you'll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you're going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don't actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, environment, Microsoft Corp., development environment, server, Sun Solaris, Solaris Servers, Wintel, open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

CREDANT Technologies Case Study: Financial Services

The bank has 5,200 employees, 360 locations, and an IT department consisting of 380 employees that support MVS, UNIX, and Windows operating systems across a mainframe, 500 servers, 30 LPARs, and 6,500 endpoints. The bank wanted to prevent losing sensitive data contained on desktops, laptops, PDAs, and USB drives and...

Tags: Bank, Financial Service, CREDANT Technologies, Financial Services, Microsoft Windows, PDAs, Operating Systems, Software, Handhelds, Hardware

Case studies 2008-07-01

Virtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fit

Virtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fitOne day...I'm hoping virtualisation will be better by really virtualising an existing machine using the same hardware drivers etc. That way, if you're using the vitualisation for testing, you can just ghost the real machine with the virtual one once its working.Apparently,...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Windows Server 2008's ode to open source

Windows Server 2008 was released last Wednesday, the next generation in a product notable for its performance, stability and security.  It's predecessor, Windows Server 2003, experienced strong sales growth, accounting for over half of the operating systems pre-installed on all servers shipped. Many of its features, such as the ability to create UI-free...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Open Source, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-03

RapidQuery 2 (Windows)

RapidQuery supports the following Databases: DB2, Firebird, Informix, Interbase, MySQL ,ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLBase, SQLServer, Sybase. To be specific DB2 is DB2 for mainframe (ZOS,MVS), Windows, Linux, Aix and Unix. The price of RapidQuery is $USD 125 which Radem-Soft believes is a reasonable price for the quality and the...

Tags: Trial Period, IBM DB2, Radem-Soft, RapidQuery, Databases, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-12-07

SMF Recording With MVS Logger

Many z/OS customers have begun to suffer from an overload of data provided by the System Management Facility SMF. As the systems have grown ever faster and larger, doing more and more work generates more and more data from SMF used to measure, manage, and audit their z/OS environment. With...

Tags: IBM z/OS, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-08

Starting the DMGR on a Different MVS Image

The purpose of this paper is to explain how to start the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V6 Deployment Manager on an MVS image different from the one on which it was originally built. The Deployment Manager is designed to support this, but it still requires some planning and effort...

Tags: Mobile, IBM Corp., Deployment Manager, Application Servers, Advertising & Promotion, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

Staffing for Linux, not distribution X

Back in the mid to late 1970s the battle for control of corporate IT was in full swing. One side, the corporate data processing group in Finance, maintained an almost absolute ideological purity with deep commitments to one vendor and the One Right Way while, on the other, line...

Tags: Standards, Linux, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-10

India's Kerala state goes open source

India's Kerala state goes open sourceGreat to see people embracing freedom and free software, they go hand inhand. And, the more using free software, the more that will be collaborating to improve free software applications.It is easy to see why MS has gone the patent racket route. They are slowly...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, UNIX, Operating systems, Apple Inc., open source, software, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Hiring Qualms

Hiring Qualmsthirty year old COBOL/CICS/DB2 stuffTricky business, considering DB2 wasn't launched until 1978 and didn't acquire the name DB2 until 1982.As for LAMP, different SQL-DBMS, different host language, otherwise same sh*t different fan.I see a bunch of jobsthat are "contract to hire". They take you on as a contractor for...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Databases, selection process, supervisor, IBM DB2, job, hiring

Discussion threads 2007-06-15

Which is the better investment, IBM or Microsoft?

Which is the better investment, IBM or Microsoft?Dana Nostradamus[i]"The day of reckoning is at hand."[/i]Really? What do think is going to happen?Did you compare Microsoft and IBM...... with stock splits discounted? If Microsoft doubles the number of shares and the price each falls from $60 to $35, the company...

Tags: IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

Microsoft PowerShell to make it into Longhorn Server, after all

Microsoft PowerShell to make it into Longhorn Server, after allWhat took them so long? :)Any serious system since the 70's has some form of a [control] command language. UNIX had Bourne shell sh and subsequenly the Korn shell ksh since its inception, so did IBM VM, even MVS/TSO and VAX-VMS....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Powershell, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Longhorn, Microsoft Longhorn, server

Discussion threads 2007-03-28

z/OS UNIX Security Fundamentals

This paper introduces the z/OS UNIX security model and implementation to IBM MVS knowledgeable and security-minded users. It does not address in detail all the wealth of specific security features available in z/OS UNIX, but rather the base principles of operation and the mechanisms implementation with setup recommendations. The paper...

Tags: IBM z/OS, Unix, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Utility Computing, Servers, Security, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-02-01

Is Windows Vista the open source frontier?

Is Windows Vista the open source frontier?Erm...I think if you re-read the article he's essentially asking, "Is Vista a platform you want to write OSS for?" He's not saying anything at all about Vista itself being Open Source.I run lots of Open Source apps on WindowsWhy would that make a...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Network Application, open source, Linux, Microsoft Windows, AXE IS, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-01-31