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The return of the mainframe: Back in fashion

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GEEKS may roll their eyes at the news that Namibia is only now getting its first mainframe—a technology that most consider obsolete. Yet the First National Bank of Namibia, which bought the computer, is at the leading edge of a trend. Comeback is too strong a word, but mainframes no longer look that outdated.
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VSAM read error

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Young Developers Get Old Mainframers’ Jobs

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Since the 1980’s, PC’s and UNIX machines were supposed to have taken over the computing world, relegating mainframes to the scrap heap alongside rotary-dial telephones, suitcase-size boom boxes, and Plymouth Reliants. Indeed, most mainframes from that era have been consigned to the scrap heap – only to be replaced by bigger and faster mainframes.

Today the number of mainframes is estimated to be 10,000. Since 2000, the processing power of mainframes has quadrupled in terms of MIPS. According to IBM, the top 25 world banks run mainframes, 80% of the world’s corporate data resides or originates on mainframes, and 71% of global Fortune 500 companies are mainframe clients.

And what about those applications that were supposed to have been migrated off mainframes?

Read full article at Datamation

Progress DataDirect Unveils Industry’s First Mainframe SQL Engine for Non-Relational Data to Leverage the zIIP Specialty Processor for Lowering Mainframe TCO

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Progress® DataDirect® Shadow® Release 7.2.1 Offers ANSI SQL-92 to Non-Relational Data with zIIP Offload; New Capabilities Lower Costs and Attract New Process-Intense Workloads to the Mainframe

Progress DataDirect Extends the Advantages of Event-Driven Architectures to Mainframe Customers with Complementary Support for IBM CICS TS v4.1

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End-to-End Solution Extends CICS Events Capability to Include Mainframe Database Business Events and Complex Event Processing

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