If you want to keep data and applications on your mainframe but extend them enterprisewide, consider four options. * Screen scraping or enhanced terminal emulation. In these options, a Web site acts ...

The Cupertino, Calif. company is releasing its Rumba mainframe terminal emulator and OnWeb virtualization products together as the Host Access Platform, said Vijay Lal, director of product marketing ...

This is the third in a series of newsletters that is exploring our premise that we are returning to a new generation of mainframe computing. With that in mind, this newsletter will continue the ...

Back in 1991, InfoWorld‘s then Editor in Chief Stewart Alsop predicted the plug would be pulled on the last mainframe in five years. Oops. Eight years after their ...

Computing architectures seem to be attached to a pendulum, swinging every few decades from centralized to de-centralized and back again. The first computing architectures were centralized and ...

Were I work (as a mainframe computer operator) we have some old ibm dumb terminals which are a dream to work on. not the usual 3270 dumb mainframe terminals, which are bleh - these are behemoth 21+" ...

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies. Back in the early days of business computing, operators accessed the back-end system – such as a mainframe or minicomputer – via a ...