CICS - University of Florida
CICS - University of Florida
CICS - University of Florida
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Why the mainframe? Availability.<br />
● Extremely high availability - "five nines", 99.999%, with Parallel<br />
Sysplex. Our S/390, zSeries, and System z experience for over<br />
a decade has been 100% scheduled mainframe availability.<br />
● World renowned security and cryptography, including RACF (or<br />
other z/OS ESM) and ICSF for z/OS key management facility<br />
and crypto API set.<br />
● Very fast, sub-second response time, high transaction volumes,<br />
even from the web!<br />
● Think modern, innovative, scalable, resilient, comprehensive,<br />
flexible, secure, community (SHARE ;-), value, integration, very<br />
capable, etc.<br />
● A very robust and viable component <strong>of</strong> today's IT infrastructure.<br />
IBM Impact 2008, Steve Ware, UF 30