The Destination z Scholarship Returns for 2012
The 2012 IBM Destination z Scholarship Enterprise Computing Scholarship Fund, which enables students to pursue their educational and career goals, seeks donations from the greater mainframe community.
Posted: 7/31/2012 4:07:28 AM by
Mike Westholder
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Web and Mobile Technologies Put Pressure on Mainframe Efficiency
The huge explosion in customer-facing Web and mobile applications is putting the spotlight on mainframe performance. However, effective application tuning can prevent performance problems, reduce response times and result in savings.
Posted: 7/24/2012 4:09:50 AM by
Philip Mann
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IBM and Augmented Reality
IBM’s research lab in Haifa, Israel, has announced a shopping AR app that enables people to use their smartphone cameras to identify products that meet specific criteria they may have specified—for example, dietary requirements, as well as budget items, items on sale, and in-store promotions, etc.
Posted: 7/17/2012 4:07:30 AM by
Trevor Eddolls
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Picturing the New Face of Mainframe
Working with the mainframe? Upload your picture for the new “Proud to Be
Posted: 7/6/2012 10:25:57 AM by
Herwig Diessner
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Virtualization in the Time of Myth
The OS/360 operating system supported two forms of data-access virtualization from its very beginning in 1964. I refer to this as the Time of Myth because even I, whose personal experience of computing goes back to 1969, did not personally witness the introduction of these concepts and had to learn of them from the elders.
Posted: 6/26/2012 4:03:05 AM by
Bob Rogers
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Atomic Weapons and the Dawn of the Computer Age
What if I told you we probably wouldn’t have computers if the Manhattan Project hadn’t created atomic bombs?
Posted: 6/19/2012 4:06:46 AM by
Trevor Eddolls
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Join the Enterprise COBOL Vnext Managed Beta Program
IBM has announced a Managed Beta Program for this next version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS. Clients interested in participating in the program are encouraged to submit their nominations.
Posted: 6/12/2012 3:45:56 AM by
Melanie Steckham
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Who’s Looking After Application Efficiency at Mainframe Sites?
Application performance tuning can help mainframe shops run their applications more efficiently so they use less processing power, but hardly anyone performs application tuning proactively in an organized and structured way. That’s often because nobody in the IT organization truly takes responsibility for giving the applications the care and attention they deserve.
Posted: 6/5/2012 4:01:13 AM by
Philip Mann
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IBM Destination z Partners Gather at Impact 2012
The Destination z team worked tirelessly to create the zZone at the IBM Impact 2012 conference exhibit hall. The zZone is intended to bring System z community members together to meet each other, meet our Destination z business partner members, and to learn how they can work together to solve business problems using System z technology.
Posted: 5/22/2012 4:04:32 AM by
Marc Smith
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The Mainframe’s Potential to Get Social
What I’m suggesting is that it isn’t too great a leap for mainframe applications to get social and build inputs that ordinary people could use when it’s convenient for them. Wouldn’t that make your company very popular with potential customers?
Posted: 5/15/2012 3:55:26 AM by
Trevor Eddolls
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