Data Conversion

The Arcati Mainframe User Survey 2009 is available right now for you, the mainframe user, to complete. This is an opportunity to let yourself be heard; to be part of a set of accumulated statistics that will be used throughout 2009. If interested, check out the survey HERE. It's short and will only take minutes to complete. However, it does need to be completed my December 5, 2008.

I was pointed to this video clip on MSNBC's web site. I hope it still works... if it does, listen around the 2:40 mark into the clip when she talks about database administrators and people that can work on the mainframe. Check it out HERE The way she describes it is kind of hokie but she does

IBM had two System z server (mainframe) announcements this morning, Tuesday, October 21, 2008. One was for the z10 Business Class (BC) Server and the other was a second general availability (GA) announcement for the z10 Enterprise Class (EC) server.

A post from Friday's MAINFRAME blog may have a quote that should become a mainframer's battle cry!!!!

Willie's "Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z" blog. It was suggested today by Martin Packer on Twitter that we should check out a recent blog entry by Kevin Keller,

Willie's "Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z" blog. This is third and last in the series of zMyth Buster posters. These will also all appear in the "System z on Campus" group on Facebook. History: They

Willie's "Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z" blog. This is number 2 in the series of zMyth Buster posters sent to me last week by a friend. I still intend to post these in the "System z on Campus" group on Facebook.

Yup, you can get a certificate that says you know mainframe. "For the first time, Marist College will be offering the popular z/OS Associate Certificate program (100% online) beginning in Spring 2008 with 50% scholarships". That means you can sit at your computer and take a or Marist College's course. Pretty cool. The following check is copied directly from the IBM

I just finished reading an excellent by Susan Eustis (President and Co-founder of WinterGreen Research) at the online flavor of Mainframe Executive Magazine. The article is called "Competitive Advantage: Mainframe", a topic I have been talking (and writing) about for some time and something extremely important to me. Here are a few of my favorate quotes

Last Tuesday wasn't just a bunch of new hardware getting announced. IBM also had a preview of the next z/OS operating system, z/OS V1.10. z/OS just keeps getting cooler and cooler and if you are interested in the mainframes operating system, you really need to check out Tuesday's