The Internet: A Mainframe Tool

Legacy Systems
Transforming Mainframe Applications

Introduction

Today, many companies are facing the competitive pressures of providing and gathering information via the Internet. The business of doing business via the Internet has moved to the forefront. Quite often this will require access to data and the coordination with processes of existing systems and business applications. These companies have mainframes running large CICS or IMS applications delivering computerized business functions throughout their enterprise.

Read more at Legacy Systems, Mainframes and the Internet, SimoTime Enterprises

Is the time right for a mainframe renaissance?

Every few years, industry pundits predict the death of the mainframe. But these big iron systems, represent the IT lifeblood of major enterprises. Far from being killed off, the mainframe is being re-incarnated as a modern system for internet applications, service oriented architectures (SOAs) and enterprise resource planning.

Read more at Computer Weekly

IBM: Internet delivery has been available for CBPDO since October, 2002 and for ServerPac since January, 2005

LookAt Internet message search