IBM System 360 compatible and successor hardware; JCL, DOS 360, IMS, CICS and successor software; Data center management methods or processes; and, A transactions oriented business or organizational ...

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 ...

IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing.

IBM is using relevant but aging data-center technology to present its products as the ones big companies should use to tie together increasingly disparate IT infrastructures that span not only ...

A non-IBM mainframe that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. In the late 1960s, RCA's computer division produced the Spectra 70, the first line of machines compatible with IBM's ...

IBM last week announced a new midrange mainframe server for organization in industries such as healthcare, retail, travel or government that need to safeguard data. The z9 Business Class mainframe ...

When you think of mainframes, you probably have a mental picture from an old movie, with punch cards and a computer that takes up an entire large room. But the mainframe still lives, and is a viable ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...

IBM Wednesday will mark the 40th anniversary of the introduction of its first mainframe computer by introducing a scaled-down version of its zSeries 990 mainframe servers called the zSeries 890, which ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...