Making the Mainframe Simple

IBM has recently finished a five-year, $100 million project to simplify the mainframe. This month, we take a look at mainframe simplification In our management section, we look at what's changed over the past five years to simplify the mainframe. In our opinion section, we take a close look at one of IBMs premier tools designed to make mainframe administration easier: the z/OS Monitoring Facility.

Finally in our technical section, we complete our three part series that de-mystifies EBCDIC, Unicode, ASCII and z/OS. In this final article, we look at translating betwen code pages.

We hope you enjoy this month's issue of LongEx Mainframe Quarterly.

management: How Has IBM Simplified the Mainframe?

In October 2006 IBM announced a five-year, $100 million dollar project to simplify its mainframe. So five years on, what's changed?

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technical: Lost in Translation 3 - Converting Between Code Pages

In the first article in this series, we introduced the different z/OS code pages, including EBCDIC and Unicode. In the second, we talked about using ASCII, Unicode and EBCDIC on z/OS. But how do you convert between them?

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opinion: Does the z/OS Monitoring Facility Match the Hype?

In z/OS 1.11, IBM announced a software product to provide web–accessible GUI screens to ease the task of z/OS administration. IBM touted this as “the new face of z/OS.” So how does it look? We take the microscope to the z/OS Monitoring Facility.

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LongEx Quarterly is a quarterly eZine produced by Longpela Expertise. It provides System z Mainframe and z/OS related articles for management and technical experts. It is published every November, February, May and August.

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