Category: Mainframe Career Development & Training
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Mainframe Backup and Recovery: Complete Disaster Planning Guide
Imagine you’re the guardian of a vast library containing the complete business history of a Fortune 500 company, including every financial transaction for the past thirty years, detailed records of millions of customers, and the operational knowledge that keeps critical business processes running smoothly. Now imagine that this library processes thousands of new documents every…
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CICS vs IMS: Which Transaction Processing System to Choose?
Imagine you’re designing the customer service system for a massive international bank that must handle millions of transactions daily while maintaining perfect accuracy and instant responsiveness. You need to choose between two remarkable but fundamentally different approaches to managing this enormous workload. One approach resembles a sophisticated call center where highly trained specialists can handle…
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Mainframe Performance Tuning: 15 Tips That Actually Work
Imagine you’re the conductor of a world-class symphony orchestra where every musician represents a different component of a mainframe system. Your job isn’t just to ensure that each musician plays their part correctly, but to orchestrate the entire performance so that all the individual contributions blend together to create something magnificent. When one violin section…
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Best Mainframe Emulators for Learning and Development
Imagine wanting to learn how to fly commercial aircraft but being told you need access to a Boeing 777 worth hundreds of millions of dollars just to practice basic controls and procedures. This impossible barrier would prevent virtually everyone from ever learning aviation skills, no matter how talented or motivated they might be. For decades,…