Bridging Generations With a Modern Mainframe Development Approach

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Mainframe applications have changed substantially in the past 20 years with the ascent of the Internet and high-speed global communications. Today’s mainframe application paths often extend beyond the firewall and out to the Web, where they become customer-facing. Banking at home, paying your credit card provider online, and making travel reservations are a few examples of modern applications that mainframes support. However, there can be a dark side to extending and Web-enabling mainframe...

Migrating Data to a New System Under Business and Compliance Pressure

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It’s not unusual for data migration projects to quickly face complex compliance considerations that add significantly to the completion time. With only one month to migrate a small European division’s disparate inventory management system to a newly developed inventory management application, the global manufacturing company’s development manager faced two sizeable hurdles...