The idea of using platform-independent Web services technology to provide access to back-end mainframe applications is picking up speed. Software vendors with experience in the Web services market are ...

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The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Sun Microsystems and Amdahl IT Services have launched a bid to entice customers of IBM-compatible mainframes to move to Sun's Starcat servers running the Solaris version of Unix, but IBM has dismissed ...

IBM z/OS Ansible is available now. As you'd expect, it enables you to automate z/OS applications and IT infrastructure. It will also enable to automate development and operations through unified ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

Microsoft and mainframe software company Micro Focus International have strengthened an alliance aimed at luring away IBM mainframe customers. At a customer event Thursday in New York, the two ...

After reading my article Making Mainframes More Efficient, Heirloom Computing CEO Gary Cook invited me to learn more about his company and what it does for enterprises wishing to migrate some of their ...

DataDirect has upgraded its Shadow mainframe data integration solution. The new Shadow version 7 offers performance improvements and data connectivity options for enterprises. The product supports ...