I am so new to this topic that I am not even sure I am asking it correctly but I will give my best. We have number of applications talking to databases such as Oracle and Mainframe and uses messaging services. I wonder if there is some tool or a script that could be written … Read more
I have started a new job which involves daily access to a Mainframe. This is my first experience with interacting with such a beast. My colleague has been helpful in getting me started, but I can’t help but think that maybe he has been in the job too long. Is it really the case that … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 12 years ago. Improve this question Information Builders released mainframe database application FOCUS in 1975. You can read the whole story on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS. What does the acronym FOCUS … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I am bidding on a small- to medium-sized job for developing a Java application to eventually be deployed on IBM’s System Z. I’m … Read more
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It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 12 years ago. What are some examples of people using mainframes … Read more
I’m trying to install Zend Server in a z/Linux (Red Hat with kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 s390x) with yum install zend-server-ce-php-5.3 with the repos configured as explained in Manually Installing Zend Server page. the s390x folder is missing in http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/rpm/ If I disabled Zend repo, enable only Zend noarch and try with: yum install zend-server-ce-php-5.3-noarch a lot … Read more
I have a development system that multiple developers are working on. The current configuration allows any request for a new dataset to be catalogued in the Master catalog. To protect the master catalog from writes apart from authorized system personnel it appears that SAF is the suggested and best option. My security manager is RACF. … Read more
I have access to an s390x machine, a zbc12 to be precise, with 32GB of RAM, which I can use as a lab for a few months(!). I wanted to explore this architecture capabilities, especially relating to dbms, and I’d like to test both sql and nosql. comparing that to an x86 architecture, I also … Read more
I work for a large organization still using an IBM mainframe on z/VSE 5.1. Today we interact with the system over flat files exclusively (to get data out of the system or pass data in). Does anyone have experience exposing data in another manner? Flat files are a drag and querying directly against the mainframe … Read more
