IBM is continuing to innovate mainframes to address and combat the technological challenges of the future-announcing the general availability of three new Z software tools designed to not only meet ...

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

Broadcom is now offering Day One support for IBM z/OS 3.2 across its entire mainframe software portfolio. Building on its previously announced Day One support for the z17, it reflects the move ...

A standardized JSON interface for RACF that enables seamless exploitation by programming languages that have a foreign language interface for C/C++ and native JSON support. While there are a number of ...

Outfitted with the Telum II processor and Spyre accelerator, the IBM z17 bolsters response times, throughput, observability, and security with AI workloads in mind. The Big Iron evolution continues.

For over 50 years, Mainframe has been a backbone of large organizations and has run mission-critical applications with transactional data at high volumes. Nevertheless, with the advent of cloud ...

Q. I have been asked via the Mainframerz newsletter about implementation of a chat bot with the mainframe. The question asked how would I do this, I could see many ways this would be possible, for ...

Mainframes (specifically those running the z/OS operating system) are renowned for their robust job scheduling capabilities, often driven by Job Control Language (JCL). On the other hand, Python is a ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

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