Robert Crawford has been a systems programmer for 29 years. While specializing in CICS technical support he has also worked with VSAM, DB2, IMS and assorted other mainframe products. He has programmed in Assembler, Rexx, C, C++, PL/1 and COBOL. The latest phase in his career finds him an operations architect responsible for establishing mainframe strategy and direction for a large Insurance company. He lives and works with his family in south Texas.
Crawford is one of several regular contributors to SearchDataCenter's Advisory Board, a collection of experts working in a variety of roles across the IT industry.
Contributions from Robert Crawford
- Revitalize mainframe storage performance with VSAM
- Accelerate the mainframe testing and application development process
- Understanding and using IMS SOAP Web services
- CICS mainframe storage protection
- The future of systems programming
- Examining CICS TS 4.2 event processing improvements
- Basic disassembly: Decoding the opcode
- Considering open source software for mainframes
- Evaluating mainframe system monitoring tools
- Ensuring CICS security with the Web Services Security standard
- Which MQ Queue is related with which CICS transaction?
- Can a program use IXLLIST macros in CICS?
- VSAM files in CICS -- Batch report help
- Reading VSAM data from different LPARs
- Finding executed statements in CICS
- Submitting a batch job from CICS
- Automating FTP transfers to AIX
- FTP a dataset from MVS to Linux
- Mainframe FTP - A simple check
- Failed arithmetic operations on CICS programs written in C