As applications span more platforms, the days of open-systems and mainframe developers sitting in...
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Shedding Light on the Mainframe Skills Gap
Mainframe managers are worried – they are staring at a significant skills shortfall that will hit...
5 Mainframe Myths Busted
Mainframes and millennials—is that an oxymoron? It doesn’t seem like they are suited for each...
IBM’s zIIP for Mainframe Explained
As a follow-up to Phil Grainger’s post about zIIP offload, I thought it was worth spending a...
When Is zIIP Offload Not What It Seems?
Minimizing the operating expense of your mainframe has never had a higher profile, nor been more...
What You Need to Know About COBOL V6 Continuous Delivery
COBOL V6.1 Continuous Delivery will instill more business value to the z Systems platform for those...
No Mock Objects for Your Mainframe? Create COBOL Program Stubs
Topaz for Total Test automatically creates and executes COBOL program stubs, allowing you to...
How to Identify and Use New COBOL Optimization Features
Here is an overview of the types of performance optimization available in COBOL Versions 5 and 6...