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Questions tagged [mainframe]

Use this tag for questions related to the IBM z Systems machines and their predecessors ever since the System/360, as well as their operating systems, such as z/OS and Linux on z Systems.

The mainframe tag covers:

  • the IBM z Systems machines and their predecessors ever since the System/360
  • their operating systems, such as z/OS and Linux on z Systems.
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Approximate pricing for IBM Z?

I am bidding on a small- to medium-sized job for developing a Java application to eventually be deployed on IBM's System Z. I'm very excited about it and though quite frankly I've had very little if any cross-platform compatibility issues with any…
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FOCUS (Mainframe DBMS) Acronym: What Does It Stand For?

Information Builders released mainframe database application FOCUS in 1975. You can read the whole story on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS. What does the acronym FOCUS stand for?
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Check health of my system such as database connections, mainframe connections, messaging services etc

I am so new to this topic that I am not even sure I am asking it correctly but I will give my best. We have number of applications talking to databases such as Oracle and Mainframe and uses messaging services. I wonder if there is some tool or a…
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Mainframe and frontend access

So I understand mainframes process data in batches. With millions of transactions per second, how is the frontend getting the most up to date data if the next batch hasn't run?
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