The idea of using platform-independent Web services technology to provide access to back-end mainframe applications is picking up speed. Software vendors with experience in the Web services market are ...

Integration Across the Compuware Product Line Helps Joint Customers Quickly Capitalize on New Advances DETROIT, Oct. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation, the world`s leading ...

BMC Software Inc. has added IBM Corp.’s IMS mainframe database to the platforms supported by its SmartDBA family of products, completing a two-year mission to provide tools for managing all of the ...

Oracle has introduced a new release of Oracle Tuxedo 11g, an application server for C/C++, COBOL, and dynamic languages. Optimized to run on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, the new release of ...

LzLabs reached out to discuss my article, "Applying 'Software Defined' to Mainframes." They thought the article didn't fully capture what they were doing, and wanted to provide a more detailed ...

IBM is suing LzLabs, saying the company's "software defined mainframe" (SDM) violates IBM’s mainframe patents. In a legal action filed in Waco Texas, IBM claims that LzLabs' systems, which offer to ...

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...