The Mainframe Blog: Late October, 2008, Potpourri

Late October, 2008, Potpourri

Do you want to access your mainframe from your iPhone or iPod touch? MochaSoft offers a solution. (Rational HATS is another.) There's some discussion on IBM-MAIN about setting up appropriate security, but this would be handy.
IBM has published a new paper: "Why to Choose CICS Transaction Server for New IT Projects." The paper discusses why it makes sense to develop new business application functions to run in CICS within a service-oriented architecture. Somebody was listening to James Governor.
IDG via The New York Times reports: "Looking for Job Security? Try COBOL."
SearchDataCenter.com interviews David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates regarding their introduction of OpenSolaris for System z. There's an interesting discussion on Slashdot about this newest mainframe operating system.
Need to access information via HTTP(S) from batch and other programs written in COBOL, PL/I, and other programming languages? Don't have any middleware which can do the job, such as CICS Transaction Server? cURL for z/OS might be just the solution for you, and it's free.

by Timothy Sipples

October 24, 2008
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Excuse me - I would have sent this via e-mail but didn't find a contact for sending corrections on this site.

The Rational HATS link refers one to the Mochasoft site, not to Rational HATS.

Posted by: Tim Hare | Oct 30, 2008 9:33:38 AM

Fixed now, Tim. Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: Timothy | Nov 7, 2008 8:40:25 PM