June 16, 2011 12:26 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
CICS,
IBM,
Mainframe,
performance,
Storage,
VSAM,
zOSDrilling deeper into VSAM RLS with focus on performance
As discussed earlier, VSAM RLS that enables simultaneous access...
June 15, 2011 8:52 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
CICS,
High Availability,
IBM,
VSAMUnderstanding VSAM RLS that provides limited sharing between CICS and batch
CICS applications are estimated to handle more than 30 billion transactions per day and process more than $1 trillion worth of business every week. VSAM is where the data is for a large percentage of...
June 13, 2011 7:36 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Cloud,
Desktop,
desktop virtualization,
Gartner,
IBM,
virtualUnderstanding VERDE that powers IBM Virtual Desktop
IBM Virtual Desktop involves an open architecture providing flexibility and supports virtual Windows as well as Linux desktops (including...
June 8, 2011 8:32 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
cost savings,
IBM,
ISV licensing,
Neon,
zPrimeNEON loses lawsuit against IBM and withdraws zPrime
On May 31, 2011, NEON announced that it has settled its legal dispute with IBM and will immediately withdraw zPrime from the market. NEON will no longer market, sell, license (including any renewal or extension of any existing...
May 21, 2011 3:46 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
DB2,
IBM,
performance,
reuse,
SOA,
web 2.0DB2 version 10 enables insert and update of subset of data enhancing reusability of DB2 functions
With the increase in the Web 2.0 applications, there are frequent situations where the application needs to insert or update data...
May 20, 2011 1:39 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Application,
DB2,
distributed data storage,
IBM,
Integration,
SOADB2 version 10 - Improvements related to Application Integration
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that facilitates code reuse, interoperability, service management and system integrity is becoming a norm in today's IT...
May 17, 2011 1:50 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
analytics,
Cloud computing,
coremetrics,
IBM,
socialIBM Smarter Commerce Initiative exploiting Coremetrics
In August 2010, IBM acquired Coremetrics, a leader in Web analytics software, and the move was expected to expand IBM's business analytics capabilities by enabling organizations to use cloud computing services to develop...
April 28, 2011 2:25 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
CICS,
cost saving,
IBM,
Java,
Mainframe,
scriptDynamic Scripting in CICS - brings best of both worlds
The CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack (optional product) seems to bring the best of both worlds - benefits of quickly developing scripted, Web 2.0 applications with simple and secured...
April 27, 2011 2:47 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
COBOL,
cost saving,
IBM,
Mainframe,
performanceTweaking COBOL Compiler Options for Improved Performance
COBOL is still the most widely used language in mainframe - both for online transaction processing as well as massive batch processing. Even minor improvement of performance of repeatedly executing COBOL programs directly...
