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A JOB WITH NO NAME In an industry where jobs turn over at a dizzying rate, the corporate PC support specialist is more likely than most to have moved on, […]

Conventional wisdom has it that mainframes are the big, difficult beasts requiring armies of systems programmers, planners and operations staff to tame them. Midrange systems, on the other hand, come […]

Faced with having to staff five International MVS sites from scratch Standard Chartered Bank chose to automate as much as possible. Candice Goodwin reports. A few months ago Phil Reed, […]

SOFT MARKET FOR LEASES Three years ago, veteran IBM-watcher Bob Djurdjevic predicted that IBM would need to raise its software prices to maintain its profit levels. The company's new software […]

THE LURE OF UNIX Will Unix, once the joke of the commercial computing world, have the last laugh after all? Over the past two years, the number of large and […]

DESKTOP SUPPORT A mainframe challenger, a departmental mini or a big PC, the AS/400 has been described as all three, and can be found playing all those roles in user' […]

MOVING MOMENTS How would you like to slash your mainframe software costs by at least 75%, reduce your need for systems programmers to almost zero, and on top of that […]

As computing moves out of the back office and into the foreground, computer people have reason to hope that their days of being backroom boys are numbered. Personnel managers, marketing […]

TRAINING FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE Training, training and more training is widely touted as the answer to the skills shortage afflicting the computer industry. Computer service companies are fond of […]

GROUP THERAPY The UK IBM Computer Users' Association (CUA) has a problem: its midrange users are getting too numerous to fit into the hotels they meet in four times a […]

EASY IF YOU KNOW HOW When the AS/400 was launched in June last year, potential buyers were offered a host of tempting communications features. Network management and a range of […]