{"id":4017,"date":"2013-09-12T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2013-09-12T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:55:41","slug":"a-moderated-screencast-enterprise-cobol-for-zos-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/a-moderated-screencast-enterprise-cobol-for-zos-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moderated Screencast: Enterprise Cobol for z\/OS 5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLMqkuou2-s?list=UUZjEZfm-WCJlQvWQ5y3nGkQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>IBM mainframes have always been great at backwards compatibility, but the compatibility comes at a price. While an app developed many years ago will generally run faster on the very latest systems hardware and software, it won&#8217;t be able to take advantage of the latest features- such as XML or Java acceleration through algorithms or specialist processors. With a major refresh of its compiler however IBM has addressed this issue, so that now mainframe applications can offer what I like to call forwards compatibility, often through a straightforward recompile. Cobol just got more useful &#8211; supporting modern data structures and bringing significant performance improvements. In mainframes many customers pay to the peak load, rather than the average, so anything that shaves those peaks can save a lot of money. <\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy this show, sponsored by IBM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM mainframes have always been great at backwards compatibility, but the compatibility comes at a price. While an app developed many years ago will generally run faster on the very latest systems hardware and software, it won&#8217;t be able to take advantage of the latest features- such as XML or Java acceleration through algorithms or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-12N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}