Mainframe customers are taking a fresh look at the Big Iron that celebrated its 40th birthday last month. IBM is spurring things along with new pricing schemes; more powerful processors; support for ...

In a bid to help mainframe-dependent companies protect their big-iron investments, BMC Software Inc. is rolling out software that will simplify and automate management processes for a wider audience ...

The hardware and software that turns an IBM mainframe Base Sysplex system into a Parallel Sysplex. It is made up of special microcode built into the machine, and the CFCC operating system (Coupling ...

IBM's mainframe clustering architecture. It allows multiple computers to work together as a single system. Supporting data sharing with guaranteed integrity, extensive resource sharing and ...

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