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Add Some zIIP to Your Mainframe
The zIIP is designed so that a program can work with z/OS to have a portion of its work directed to it. Because the zIIP processes specific work, capacity is freed up on the CPU to do other tasks, a win-win situation. » FULL STORY
November 2007 | by Ashraf Kamel and Ollie Jones
The Dos and Don’ts of RACF Performance
e-Newsletter Exclusive | Learn how to improve the performance of RACF installations, starting with reviewing and testing systems programming carefully before implementation.
April 2008
Why Consolidate on the Mainframe?
Administrator | Because the mainframe’s reliability, security, scalability and performance has always been at the forefront of technology innovation, the System z platform allows IT to harness that innovation to accomplish core strategic goals to the organization.
March 2008
Why Choose the Mainframe?
e-Newsletter Exclusive | Because the mainframe’s reliability, security, scalability and performance has always been at the forefront of technology innovation, the System z platform allows IT to harness that innovation to accomplish core strategic goals to the organization.
February 2008
The Three Stupidest Reasons Why Not to Buy a Mainframe
Administrator | IT buyers who look at mainframe TCO should find that mainframes are less expensive to operate than distributed systems environments, in part because of reduced staffing needs. Taken with the fact that mainframes are clearly not old technology, these three arguments hold no ground against exploring the possibility of mainframe implementation.
October 2007
Accelerating Enterprise Application Modernization
Administrator | Modernizing existing applications rather than replacing them is a time-tested approach to competitive advantage in the financial-services industry.
September 2007
The Mainframe Energy Efficiency Value: Part 2
e-Newsletter Exclusive | Energy costs related to supplying power as well as the costs to cool/air condition datacenters can far exceed the cost to operate systems/storage environments. It’s important to move away from systems and storage devices that waste energy, but it’s of even greater importance to attack the macro problem of managing energy efficiently throughout an entire datacenter.
August 2007
IMS V9 Includes Integrated TCP/IP Support
Administrator | IBM IMS V9 is the first version of IMS to include integrated TCP/IP connection management support.
July 2007
Ahead of the Pack
Features | z/VSE V4.1 provides a cost-effective mainframe solution to clients of all sizes.
July 2007
Quality Assurance You Can Take to the Bank
Features | The new IBM Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence can help transform back-office processes and databases to solutions that reduce risk, time to completion and project costs.
July 2007
Performance/The Mainframe Energy Efficiency Value Proposition
e-Newsletter Exclusive | By building a scaled-up environment that operates on the principle of sharing resources, mainframe design trumps distributed computing architecture when it comes to energy consumption.
July 2007
Practical Experiences with CICS Performance Tuning
Technical Corner | Some primary considerations and techniques for CICS performance tuning.
March 2007
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