4 Transformational Ideas from the Past

IBM is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year. It’s a history marked by significant innovation and change. I wanted to pause for a moment to revisit the past and think of few mainframe-related areas that have had a huge impact on business computing. Below are four technologies which I think hit the mark.
Click here to read more on my original post at destinationz.org
Happy Reading!

A Real-Time, In-Memory Table Management Solution

We all know, mainframers use look-up tables in databases like DB2 or Virtual Storage Access Management (VSAM) to retrieve information and validate for business reasons. The data is these tables is usually static or does not change often. In cases like this, doing a Read of these tables impacts the performance of the application. And, in most cases, we read the complete table in program memory and do the processing. Wouldn’t it be better if we had few other options? 
Click here to read more on my original post at destinationz.org
Happy Reading!

RDz: A One-Stop Tool | Mainframe | IBM Systems Magazine

My attempt to understand & share on a mainframe development tool RDz from IBM.."RDz: A One-Stop Tool" in June 2010 web-exclusive edition of IBM Systems Magazine

RDz: A One-Stop Tool | Mainframe | IBM Systems Magazine

Hope you enjoy reading it..

Mainframe's Future

• Came across a news article in PC World on an survey done on mainframe's future..So, this revives the ongoing debate..
• A contradicting article(to above one) in Computer World on IBM's recent mainframe business 

Happy reading!