Complimentary White Papers

Today’s IT landscape is constantly changing, but IBM ® zSeries® is staying ahead of the game. New enhancements to core subsystems such as CICS®, IMS® and DB2® for z/OS® are making the mainframe a stronger, more strategic platform than ever. And the total cost per user, the clearest measure of platform efficiency, is actually lower for legacy systems than distributed systems. Learn about these new capabilities — and discover why more companies are recentralising around the mainframe — in these complimentary white papers. Register now

Dinosaur Myth 2004 Update
Read this complimentary white paper from Arcati Research to learn:

• Why the best measurement of platform efficiency is total cost per user (TCU), not total cost of ownership (TCO)
• How the costs of hardware, application software and personnel compare for mainframe and distributed systems over a five-year period
• Why the total cost per user will decrease faster for mainframe systems than distributed systems in the coming years

DB2 for z/OS Version 8.1: Driving Business Value
Read this complimentary white paper from Triton Consulting to learn how DB2 for z/OS V8.1 help customers meet critical challenges through enhancements such as:

• 64-bit support, which enables DB2 systems to cache more data, scale much higher and reduce system overhead
• Superior partitioning options, which enables the design of more efficient database that can support higher transaction loads
• New Java function within the DB2 Universal Driver that provides improved productivity and performance in the zSeries environment

Making CICS a Peer Player in Web Services
Read this complimentary white paper from Arcati Research to learn how enhancements to Transaction Server V3.1 help you implement new Web services applications by:

• Allowing reuse of CICS logic and processes within Web services applications for easier integration
• Enhancing application transformation with new development tools and simplified programming that helps bring CICS’ high availability and other strengths into the Web services environment
• Boosting performance through improved interfaces, management capabilities and support of middleware standards such as XML, SOAP and WSDL

IMS Version 9 Capitalises on a z/OS Foundation
Read this complimentary article from eServer Magazine to learn about new enhancements to IMS V9, including:

• Online reorganisation of high-availability large databases (HALDB)
• The ability to globally or selectively query the contents recorded in the IMS Database Recovery Control (DBRC) RECON data sets
• XML database JDBC/SQL support for storage and retrieval of XML documents