Mainframe

• 17 Jan 2018 | 3 min read

  #ibm #ims #mainframe #sap #terminal #devrel #r2 #career

  Coming Home

  I first encountered SAP in 1987, where, fresh out of university and following an induction course for new graduates at Esso Petroleum in London, I started work in the Database Support Group, which...

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• 09 Sep 2009 | 1 min read

  #appengine #azure #cloudcomputing #ec2 #ibm #ims #mainframe #mvs #sap

  Mainframes and the cloud - everything old is new again

  Cloud computing, virtual machines. It’s big business. Amazon has its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which provides “resizable compute capacity in the cloud“, Microsoft has Azure, providing “on-demand...

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• 30 May 2005 | 1 min read

  #370 #jcl #mainframe #mvs #turnkey

  Turnkey MVS 3.8J on Hercules S/370 Screenshot

  As an ex MVS chap (I managed VSAM (DL/1) based SAP R/2 systems on IMS DB/DC at the start of my career) I was amazed some months back to find Hercules, the open source S/370 emulator. So imagine my...

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