The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

The idea of using platform-independent Web services technology to provide access to back-end mainframe applications is picking up speed. Software vendors with experience in the Web services market are ...

CICS is still the backbone of many mainframe systems, and common enterprise problems such as instability, high cost and rapidly shifting market conditions are exacerbated as users attempt to expose ...

A user-friendly monitoring and diagnostic tool can help you avoid bottlenecks and downtime in the central mainframe transaction and connectivity engine. IT environments are increasingly complex to ...

Quick question: What is more than 60 years old, but still spry enough to beat the best mid-range clusters at big data? If your answer was the mainframe, then you're correct. By a virtual show of hands ...

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 ...

This is the 7th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

Clerity Solutions, Inc., a provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, has announced a program offering customers free 30-day trials of its Clerity Service Builder and Clerity Web ...

Clerity Solutions, Inc., a provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, today released the latest version of its rehosting software, stating that it offers increased choice in ...