All-in-One Guides:Mainframe Management
Chapter 1: Mainframe modernization
When it comes to mainframe modernization, applications and hardware present unique challenges for the enterprise. Applications must be revised periodically to reflect changes in the business, and to leverage the emergence of new software technologies. Mainframe hardware upgrades are necessary to support more users and advanced computing features, but new hardware is also costly, and the upgrade process must be planned and tested carefully. Let's look at the key considerations in application and hardware modernization.
Linux on the mainframe:
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Linux on the IBM mainframe: When is it the right choice?
12 Oct 2007
Article - A recent Gartner report looks at the arguments for and against running Linux on the mainframe.
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Third-party software costs killing mainframe growth
10 Jan 2007
Article - A new Gartner survey reflects mainframe trends in third-party software costs, Linux adoption and IBM's struggle to bring new blood to the platform.
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IBM offers a free server "hop" for Linux apps
31 Aug 2006
Article - At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Big Blue unveiled a huge free-of-cost ISV initiative that allows for the "hopping" of Linux applications from one IBM server to the next.
Mainframe systems upgrades:
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IBM upgrades z/OS; makes $100M commitment to mainframe
04 Oct 2006
Article - IBM upgrades z/OS, the mainframe operating system, saying it is easier to use and offers more functionality. Meanwhile, it has announced a $100 million investment in the next five years.
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IBM countersued by PSI over plug-compatible mainframe
29 Jan 2007
Article - Platform Solutions Inc., also known as PSI, has answered IBM's lawsuit with a counterclaim arguing that IBM combines its mainframe hardware and z/OS to prevent competition.
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University uses smaller mainframe to ease bogged down enrollment system
15 Nov 2006
Article - Several times a year, the University of Toronto's mainframe would strain under the pressure of 70,000 students enrolling in or dropping out of courses at the same time. So it bought a z9 Business Class, IBM's smaller mainframe, with the ability to ramp...
SOA on the mainframe:
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For large mainframe shops, SOA on the upswing
05 Feb 2008
Article - Slowly but surely, large mainframe shops have turned to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services to access data stuck in DB2 and CICS environments.
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SOA on mainframe allows SunTrust to offer cell phone banking
21 Feb 2008
Article - To enable customers to check balances and make transfers from cell phones, SunTrust Banks needed service-oriented architecture to open up its mainframe.
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IBM mainframe CICS Transaction Server enhanced for SOA
04 Apr 2007
Article - IBM has upgraded its CICS Transaction Server to take advantage of service-oriented architecture, also known as SOA, allowing better access to mainframe legacy programs.