Wednesday, April 11, 2007
IBM ends 31-bit z/OS mainframe support
IBM ends 31-bit z/OS mainframe support
By Mark Fontecchio, 11 Apr 2007 | SearchDataCenter.com
IBM stopped supporting 31-bit z/OS on the mainframe on the first of this month.
Jim Rhyne, chief architect for enterprise software at IBM, said some companies are able to strike deals to extend IBM support for 31-bit z/OS. But for the most part, Rhyne said that IBM has given customers plenty of time to migrate off z/OS 1.4 and 1.5, as the end-of-service announcement was made in August of 2003.
Read the full news report from here @ Search Data Center
By Mark Fontecchio, 11 Apr 2007 | SearchDataCenter.com
IBM stopped supporting 31-bit z/OS on the mainframe on the first of this month.
Jim Rhyne, chief architect for enterprise software at IBM, said some companies are able to strike deals to extend IBM support for 31-bit z/OS. But for the most part, Rhyne said that IBM has given customers plenty of time to migrate off z/OS 1.4 and 1.5, as the end-of-service announcement was made in August of 2003.
Read the full news report from here @ Search Data Center
SAS Brings Enterprise Intelligence Platform to IBM System z
SAS Brings Enterprise Intelligence Platform to IBM System z
11 Apr 2007
SAS has tightly integrated its Enterprise Intelligence Platform – which includes data integration, intelligence storage, business intelligence and analytics software – with the IBM System z mainframe.
In addition, the introduction of sub-capacity pricing provides SAS mainframe customers with a cost-effective way of adding new workloads and new applications to the System z platform, says this news report.
Read the full news report from here @ ebizQ
11 Apr 2007
SAS has tightly integrated its Enterprise Intelligence Platform – which includes data integration, intelligence storage, business intelligence and analytics software – with the IBM System z mainframe.
In addition, the introduction of sub-capacity pricing provides SAS mainframe customers with a cost-effective way of adding new workloads and new applications to the System z platform, says this news report.
Read the full news report from here @ ebizQ
Labels: business-intelligence, prices, zos
Thursday, April 5, 2007
IBM Encourages Customers to Bring BI Back to the Mainframe
IBM Encourages Customers to Bring BI Back to the Mainframe
By Stephen Swoyer, 4/4/2007
IBM is pursuing a number of pricing stratagems to make the mainframe a more affordable proposition on both hardware and software. One such is its zSeries Integrated Information Processor, or zIIP. zIIP is in essence a software license that lets customers host data-intensive workloads often associated with business intelligence (BI) or data warehousing (DW) on z/OS at a substantially reduced cost. IBM hopes with this effort to reverse the exodus from mainframes and to recast the System z as an alternative to distributed Windows, Unix, and Linux systems for BI and DW.
zIIPs were conceived with four primary scenarios in mind: remote JDBC and ODBC access to DB2 on z/OS; BI queries; parallel query processing; and DB2 utilities processing.
Read the full news report from here @ Enterprise Systems
By Stephen Swoyer, 4/4/2007
IBM is pursuing a number of pricing stratagems to make the mainframe a more affordable proposition on both hardware and software. One such is its zSeries Integrated Information Processor, or zIIP. zIIP is in essence a software license that lets customers host data-intensive workloads often associated with business intelligence (BI) or data warehousing (DW) on z/OS at a substantially reduced cost. IBM hopes with this effort to reverse the exodus from mainframes and to recast the System z as an alternative to distributed Windows, Unix, and Linux systems for BI and DW.
zIIPs were conceived with four primary scenarios in mind: remote JDBC and ODBC access to DB2 on z/OS; BI queries; parallel query processing; and DB2 utilities processing.
Read the full news report from here @ Enterprise Systems
Labels: business-intelligence, competition, data-warehouseing, databases, ibm, prices, zos
IBM Opens Up System Z Mainframe To SOAs
IBM Opens Up System Z Mainframe To SOAs
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, April 5, 2007
IBM is expanding the Z Mainframe server's capabilities by allowing it to process XML documents and their attachments, such as graphic files, that are traveling in a SOAP packet, thus making the System z mainframe friendly to service-oriented architectures.
IBM's strategy for opening up its high-end computing workhorse revolves around the company's CICS (Customer Information Control System) software, which is IBM's transaction server for developing, running, and managing transaction applications on the mainframe.
Read the full news report from here @ Information Week
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, April 5, 2007
IBM is expanding the Z Mainframe server's capabilities by allowing it to process XML documents and their attachments, such as graphic files, that are traveling in a SOAP packet, thus making the System z mainframe friendly to service-oriented architectures.
IBM's strategy for opening up its high-end computing workhorse revolves around the company's CICS (Customer Information Control System) software, which is IBM's transaction server for developing, running, and managing transaction applications on the mainframe.
Read the full news report from here @ Information Week
Labels: cics, ibm, service-oriented-architecture, xml, zos
Sunday, April 1, 2007
DB2 for Mainframes Gets Native XML with V9.1 Release
DB2 for Mainframes Gets Native XML with V9.1 Release
Published: March 6, 2007, by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Having divulged its plans for the improvement of its three key operating system platforms for the mainframe, IBM this week completed the hat trick by getting the "Viper" edition of its database management system, sold as DB2 9.1, up and running on its mainframes. Like the Viper release for Windows, Unix, and Linux servers--which is a code base that is distinct from the DB2 that runs on mainframes--DB2 9.1 for z/OS supports native XML document as well as relational data formats.
Read the full news story from IT Jungle
Published: March 6, 2007, by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Having divulged its plans for the improvement of its three key operating system platforms for the mainframe, IBM this week completed the hat trick by getting the "Viper" edition of its database management system, sold as DB2 9.1, up and running on its mainframes. Like the Viper release for Windows, Unix, and Linux servers--which is a code base that is distinct from the DB2 that runs on mainframes--DB2 9.1 for z/OS supports native XML document as well as relational data formats.
Read the full news story from IT Jungle
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