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Abstract:
A mainframe is a computing system that businesses use to host large scale
commercial databases, transaction servers, and applications that require a
greater degree of security and availability than is commonly available on
smaller-scale systems. Despite their predominance in the business world,
mainframes are largely invisible to the general public and the academic
community. This is unfortunate, as they offer great opportunities to IT
professionals and university graduates in a variety of technical fields.
Today, about 60% of all data available on the Internet is stored and
processed on mainframe computers. Hence, we are all mainframe users, whether
we realize it or not.
This special lecture, which is offered to computer science students in
cooperation with IBM, will acquaint you with the technical details of the
mainframe hardware and its operating system z/OS. It will also cover
technologies that are built on top this platform, such as Virtualization,
Linux on Mainframe, Transaction Management (CICS), and enterprise-scale Java
applications (J2EE).
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