DB2 v10 z/OS. Just a few of the cool enhancements – Pt 1.
March 6, 2011 No CommentsThis weekend when finally I got a change to sit back, relax and read the DB2 V10 enhancements document. Here are just some of the things that made me smile.
Archive for Technology
Performance considerations for Hybrid and Cloud mainframe applications.
March 3, 2011 No CommentsApplications have to utilize both distributed and mainframe infrastructures and traditional IT organizations have had difficulty managing these silo-ed transactions that span these diverse platforms
Mainframe 2.0 Turns Two – by Savio Saldanha
January 27, 2011 No CommentsIt is been amazing to see the vigor with which it has been supported by our customers. I am sure that there is more innovation to come and it will go a long way to simplifying and bringing the mainframe platform to a new generation of administrators users and skilled technicians.
CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 puts new generation face on mainframe management
January 17, 2011 1 CommentIn terms of the user interface, Mainframe Chorus was “more like an iPhone than a 3270 screen” yet it runs on the mainframe itself. “It is not a clumsy n-tier [implementation],”
NBN, $24 per month information super-highway? Or $36 Billion white elephant? by Peter Sharples
December 21, 2010 No Commentsthe $36 Billion investment return the required dividend to the Australian public? Will the take-up of NBN access make the venture viable? Is this just going to benefit people that sit in dark rooms, divorced form reality, living in virtual worlds?
Time is on your side – Automate Mainframe Secuirty (Part III)
October 7, 2010 1 CommentThere are ways you can take control and bring a sense of organization and confidence that your security database and subsequent access is being monitored and managed.
Stopping Sticky Fingers & controlling mainframe security
August 31, 2010 1 CommentIt is now common to find in the largest Mainframe sites around the world have a reliance on a hand full of skilled and commonly, aging, security specialists.
3 Benefits of Mainframe processing with the z/196
August 18, 2010 No CommentsLife’s exciting when innovation is so powerful that it drives your thoughts how to push the boundaries of your idea’s.
VSAM Tuning, Shareoptions and Dispositions
August 11, 2010 No CommentsIt is amazing to imagine, but there is still so much VSAM out there and we have forgotten some simple concepts to reduce the elapsed time and resource usage.
Managing Business Challenges in Collaborative Mainframe Enterprises.
August 4, 2010 No CommentsThe perpetual problem of being able to attain all your customer of business information at your fingertips while your customer is on the line has been for many years the holy grail of customer service
IBM Announces its Enterprise Server. z/196
July 25, 2010 No CommentsIBM launched a new mainframe. Each few years this is a heralded event, but something new is in the wind, this time it sounded different, felt different
Tom Foster’s Weekly Financial Update (July 18)
July 17, 2010 No CommentsSome mistakes are just too much fun to only make once (especially when other people are making them).” This must be what international hedge funds are thinking every time they smash the ASX on a wave of weak sentiment.
Wax ON Wax OFF – Tuning VSAM considerations.
July 12, 2010 No CommentsI/O rates still today are significantly slower than the processing speed of the application layer. Many DBA’s even talk about the best I/O, is one that you don’t actually do. It is true then, that transaction times for VSAM programs can be reduced by reducing the response time for the I/O.
Life’s a bit simpler – VSAM Space reclaim in z/OS 1.12
July 7, 2010 1 CommentInserting and deleting records in VSAM KSDS’s seemed to always cause fragmentation – and that meant that there was extra I/O and that meant CPU time – taking the data off line to reorganize indexes and data files meant again – longer batch streams and outages of the online applications.
Using a Pattern Based Methodology for Cloud based deployments – Part 2
July 5, 2010 No CommentsVirtual appliances which are pre-defined with virtual images will have a number of predefined configuration points for the server itself and also for cross technology interfaces such as databases, application and security servers. reducing the number of permutations and combinations will bring clarity and elegance to you cloud based enterprise.
Gartner Trims WW IT spending to 3.9%
July 4, 2010 No CommentsGartner just announced a re-assessment of its WW IT spending trimming it to a mere 3.9% from a previous 5.3%. The main causes according to Gartner are European Sovereign Debt making the local markets softer Strength of the US dollar against the Euro reducing the buying power Long term public spending reductions in major well established economies Private company softness ...
Using a Pattern Based Methodology for Cloud based deployments – Part 1
June 28, 2010 1 CommentCloud computing adds complexities; configuration changes can be found at each stage of the lifecycle(test, QA, production) and this makes moving code from environment to environment a challenging task. How do you ensure that your development and test platforms are the SAME as what your hosting service provider (that manages your cloud) uses? Guess what!! It won’t be!!
Opinion, Technology
The risk of an aging IT population in the city of Churches.
June 24, 2010 1 CommentAt what point though does a CIO have to decide that the risk of staff shortages is too high and has to make a long term strategic decision to leave the platform, not matter how virtuous the benefits of using it are?
Three common reasons why you don’t upgrade DB2 for z/OS.
June 18, 2010 No CommentsThree common reasons why you don’t upgrade DB2 for z/OS. Continuously I hear that many sites around the country are laggards when it comes to upgrading DB2. Commonly the reasons I hear are; 1. We don’t want to be first 2. We have a Current – 1 release standard because we are risk adverse 3. We don’t have a budget to upgrade.
Co-location will be a necessity for your Cloud to be really successful.
June 15, 2010 No CommentsCo-location will be a necessity for your Cloud to be really successful.
