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Ezriel Gross on the Importance of CICS

Reg Harbeck

May 1, 2020

Reg Harbeck talks with Ezriel Gross about his history with CICS and its continued importance in the mainframe community

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The Many Faces of Application Creation: Part 2

Jim Schesvold

March 16, 2020

This is a continuation of last month’s article, which chronicled application tools and options in context of development projects I’ve worked in and programming alternatives used, including design, coding, and validation. I’ve used various programming facilities, along with their strengths and weaknesses. My experiences start in the early 1970s, and the evolution I’ve experienced spans […]

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The Many Faces of Application Creation: Part 1

Jim Schesvold

February 20, 2020

While my career has mostly been consulting, marketing, systems programming and management, I’ve also had numerous engagements in application programming and design. A class in COBOL was my first IT experience, and in my MBA program, I learned Fortran and General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) in Operations Research classes. In 1975, I rewrote a broken […]

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Dusty Rivers on IMS, CICS, Db2 and IBM Z

Reg Harbeck

December 5, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Dusty Rivers, an experienced IBM mainframe expert, an IMS person who has been working all across the mainframe ecosystem especially in areas that has gotten enough attention that he has been able to be an IBM Champion for the past 10 years as […]

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Ray Mullins on Assembler, COBOL and PL/1

Reg Harbeck

October 1, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Ray Mullins who is a friend of mine and fellow mainframer who I've known from SHARE and various other parts of the mainframe ecosystem for quite some time. It turns out we have a lot of common interests, including languages and of course […]

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