SQL Session Example
A Sample SQL Session in IDMS/SQL One last time!
Optimization in IDMS/SQL A look at the Access Plan!
SOA Hype The biggest circus in the industry today (after CASE flop and traditional client-server failures)
The Virtual Cullinet Site
Re-Inventing the Wheel
When CA took over Cullinet in 1989, it was predicted that by 1995 mainframe as well as IDMS would be obsolete. CA too never expected IDMS to stay alive for another 10 years. Doomsday predictions were there everywhere. "Death" of the product was reported several times in Computerworld, even IDMS/SQL already commented on this. If all these were true, we won't be even writing this note.
IDMS surivived Y2K, client-server Unix dbs and now even the Web applications. After Y2K sometime in 2003, the IT market was heading towards Offshore - typically offshore to India. Bangalore figured even in a Nobel Debate (1998).
IDMS support is no longer there from most CA offices. Clients are dormant or pretend to be dormant. Many applciations were classified for replacement "in the next 3 years"! Though such decisions were taken by many as early as 1999 or 1994 or 2001, the fact is that the client is saying the same thing now in 2007 - within the next 3 years we will replace IDMS! This had severe impact on the people who were 'experts' on the product. Many left the field for new technologies like Java or .net or Unix databases. This has created a vacuum at many sites - no one knows the product. THe impact is severe at sites where the application has grown, though the management refuses to admit it! There are sites where the 'free space' in a Giga DB became close to 1% (Guidelines for an active db is 30%!)
Indian sites have come up utilizing this 'vacuum'. Mainframe itself, though NOT unknown to India during the 70s and early 80s, was no longer a topic in the University curriculm in the last 20 years. Gone are the days when M.Tech Computer Science students were carrying books like 'Systems Programming by JJ Donovan' or 'Operating Systems by Madnick and Donovan' or IBM's own Principles of Operation (known as POP ).. One doesn't need a S/370 to learn about computers. That's the reality.
This being the case, one gets a surprise when IDMS/ADS Online issues are actively discussed in an internet based forum...emulating the old Tech support of Cullinet or CA! Are we seeing a TSIS like support system here?
Appearances are misleading though! A quick browse through the issues will reveal that most are novices and everyone is trying to re-inevnt the wheel in the most complicated way! This is not to discredit the guys in the form or the offshore guys who are doing a wonderful job when the vendor and the industry are missing the point! The problem is that real expertise is missing or coming in bits and pieces... More to follow
Ex CA Chief Sanjay Kumar sentenced to 12 years in prison
 Sanjay Kumar, the former CEO of Computer Associates, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a $2.2 billion accounting fraud at the software company. Mr. Kumar, who is scheduled to begin serving a 12-year prison term this month, will actually pay about $52 million over the next two years, the majority of his and his family’s assets. Most of the remaining restitution will probably never be paid, although when Mr. Kumar leaves prison the government will have the right to garnish 20 percent of his wages.
For readers of IDMS/SQL News in Scandinavia this is a time to recapture some unpleasant events which happened in CA Norway during 1998, approximately the same time Mr Kumar & Co were involved in huge financial scandal at CA headquarters in New York. One of the longterm employees of CA Norway was unceremoniously fired and was forced into a legal case with CA. The employee did not have the financial strength to wage such a battle with expensive lawyers and against a multi billion dollar company. The employee approached Charles Wang in Islandia, who did take interest in the case and deputed Mr Kumar to deal with the issue. The head of CA's European operations did meet the employee in Rome in 1998, but the meeting produced no concrete results. One Mrs C'lin in CA Islandia was talking to the employee on behalf of Mr Kumar until the last date prior to the court proceedings in Oslo.
Mr Kumar had the power to stop this case and do a settlement, but he did not move. Now after less than a decade, the man who could have ensured justice in Oslo, who had the sole power to do so, who could have made justice available in Oslo with a phonecall, whose name was misleadingly and erroneously used in Oslo, has met with his destiny in New York. IDMS/SQL is pleased to say 'JUSTICE WAS DONE'!
More on this Mr Kumar to pay huge damages and serve 12 years
IDMSDC - 177 days non-stop -
crosses 200 million transactions
Since we reported the story below the IDMS
region had to be taken down becuase of MVS IPL.
But now that startup has beaten own record. The
latest figures from 19th Sept 2006.
CURRENT TIME 14:31:34.04
CURRENT DATE 06/262 < --------
STARTUP TIME 04:08:39.82
STARTUP DATE 06/085 < ---------
Current max tasks 65
Times at max tasks 744
Allocated DCE/TCE 65
Number of tasks abended 11579
Number of tasks processed 201391746 <------
Number of tasks active 23
On the other hand, now it is the age of third
class systems. No one bothers about these. Not
even the vendor! So if you want to keep up with
the market, better start learning Java and
Weblogic, or even better Ruby, AJAX, PHP and some
'xyz' database which you can download from the
net!
Java for S/370
Guys
After a long break, this
'course' has been updated. We will put all the
samples on the net shortly. This will be followed
by a critical study of Java usage in real
business (JSP, Servlet, IDE (Eclipse, Visual
J++...), Application Servers ( Tomcat, Weblogic,
Websphere..) etc)
Cover
Page N E W - June 2005
Introduction.ppt
Chapter1.ppt
Chapter2.ppt
FileIO.ppt
N E W -
June 2005
gui.ppt N E W - June 2005
Special.ppt
N E W -
June 2005
IDMS Release 16 and Two Phase
Commit
A Webcast was there on 12th Jan
2005. Judy Dillman presented the Features and
Judy Kruntorad, Orrin Stevens and Bill Abbott
were present. About 50 particpated from around
the world.
IDMS
16.0 Webcast snapshot
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person to access this
page since 1 Feb 1998 
