Migrating an MVS Mainframe Application to a PC

MVS-SAT: a security administration tool to support SMF protocol data evaluation

The paper presents a tool called MVS-SAT which supports extraction, oo-line analysis and evaluation of security-related data recorded by the System Management Facility (SMF) running under MVS on IBM mainframe computers. MVS-SAT consists of a PC and a MVS-host part. The PC part ooers a simple user interface providing services to specify data sets which should be extracted from the SMF database b...

PC/LAN/UNIX to MVS Mainframe Backups

Migrating from Batch to Interactive Processing in an IBM Mainframe Environment

Easy. direct access to data by users is a key business requirement. With windows-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools being the norm, batch-processing tools do not meet today's expectations of the non-programmer user. However, there is no reason that 'power users' shouldn't have easy to use tools as well. SAS System for personal computers (PC/SAS) coupled with SASfCONNECT is a powerful pa...

84-01-35 Client/Server Security With Mainframe Access

Microcomputers (clients), local area networks, and mainframes (servers) should be combined into a cooperative processing structure, because such a structure can leverage the advantages of each technology. The success of this type of system depends on the effective distribution of data on the client and server components. This article discusses a client/server system that connects clients throug...

IBM A White Paper on the Benefits of Chipkill - Correct ECC for PC Server Main Memory

As the network-centric model of computing continues to mature, customers are constantly trying to evaluate what the correct price/performance point is for their business. For the growing number of businesses that choose a PC Server for a departmental, workgroup, or application server function, one of the key parameters is the reliability of the server. This paper addresses one area of concern i...