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 ...

Oracle has introduced a new release of Oracle Tuxedo 11g, an application server for C/C++, COBOL, and dynamic languages. Optimized to run on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, the new release of ...

Conniving naysayers have propagated the myth of the mainframe’s demise for decades, but a swift and momentous evolution of mainframe innovation and usage in recent years has debunked this propaganda ...

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 ...

The idea of moving off IMS might seem compelling at first glance, but once you look at the whole picture, you might think otherwise. Here are five factors to consider. Most people think of cost as the ...

Enterprise software and services company BMC today unveiled new capabilities and enhancements for its Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware portfolios. The new capabilities were ...

With the latest release of its Tuxedo transaction processing server (TPC), Oracle is hoping to lure mainframe users onto the cloud. Moving a mainframe application to an Oracle Exalogic system, where ...