Aside from getting up to speed on what it means to run Linux on a mainframe, I learned a few other things, thanks to ZDNet's readers who responded to my column on how SuSE is infusing "Blue" blood (as ...

Savvy IT pros have been tinkering with mainframe partitioning for years. But with the sudden proliferation of single-task servers, especially for the Internet, partitioning big iron to consolidate ...

Everything old is new again. In the 1960s, IBM's 650 mainframe operating system had two modes, MFT and MVT, in which process got its own address space and couldn't interface with others processes ...

Cost containment is an important IT department goal in this day and age of financial austerity. Every decision regarding your computing environment must be weighed not only against the value it can ...

ANZ Banking Group reduced CPU utilisation on its twin Z13 mainframes, cutting the cost of running the machines by millions of dollars a year. David McPherson, an architect at the group, revealed the ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, today introduced the next version of its ...

Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, is releasing the next version of its PRO/JCL, a job control language (JCL) ...