by Craig S. Mullins | Aug 18, 2020 | COBOL, IBM Z, Java, programming, specialty processors, zIIP
Surprisingly, COBOL has been in the news a lot recently, due to its significant usage in many federal govern-ment and state systems, most recently with unemployment systems, being in the news. With the global COVID-19 pandemic, those unemployment systems were...
by Craig S. Mullins | Aug 7, 2020 | DBA, idug
The IDUG North America Virtual Conference is happening now... and it runs through the end of next week (August 14, 2020), so there is still time to register, attend, and hear about some great Db2 "stuff!"Originally, the event was planned as a weeklong conference...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
This week IBM announced earnings results for 2020Q2 and the company reported Systems revenues of $1.9 billion, up 6 percent, led by IBM Z, which was up 69 percent… the mainframe is a shining jewel in IBM’s earnings.Note that the Systems category comprises IBM systems...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jul 13, 2020 | audit, backup, log, recovery, redo, repair, transactions, undo, undrop
The Db2 for z/OS log sometimes referred to as the transaction log, is a fundamental component of Db2 that is central to all data activity in the database management system. Every change to application data (with a few exceptions) is recorded serially in the log as the...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jun 30, 2020 | COBOL, Java, mainframe modernization
Most organizations that rely on the mainframe for their mission-critical workload have a considerable amount of COBOL programs. COBOL was one of the first business-oriented programming languages having been first introduced in 1959. Designed for business and available...
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