This is the 11th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

sharing resources between multiple IMS-DL/I subsystems. The concepts of read integrity and update integrity are important in a description of resource sharing. Read integrity means that two programs ...

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 ...

The world of enterprise data is evolving at an incredible pace, and businesses are grappling with increasingly complex data landscapes. This demands more from their database systems than ever before.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. IBM doesn’t release a whole lot of news detailing the ins ...