What are CICS transactions?
vengelmannCICS, COBOL, Mainframe, ParadigmsComments are off for this post

To understand this, you need to know that – in the mainframe world – you don’t have multiple computers with one keyboard and monitor each. You have one central computer (the mainframe), which controls multiple keyboards and monitors (terminals) individually.A CICS transaction is when the mainframe sends or receives data to or from one of […]

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COBOLs „superior“ performance
vengelmannCOBOL, Paradigms, PerformanceComments are off for this post

COBOL / Mainframes have the reputation of having superior performance – „Workhorse“ is a term often associated with them. The well-known COBOL brain drain survey from 2009 revealed that 87% of COBOL users still believed that COBOL had much better – or at least about the same – performance than other languages. I do believe that […]

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