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Mainframes

Mainframes are large computers used by large organizations for critical applications involving large amounts of data processing. They have evolved over time from being single-tasking to multi-tasking. Reasons for continued mainframe use include reliability, security, and ability to handle large volumes of transactions. While less complex than supercomputers, mainframes are optimized for processing large external data sets. Key components that enable mainframe functions include MVS, CICS, DB2, and security tools like RACF. Mainframes continue to have relevance due to reliability and ability to handle large workloads, though their role may evolve over time.

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Mainframes

Mainframes are large computers used by large organizations for critical applications involving large amounts of data processing. They have evolved over time from being single-tasking to multi-tasking. Reasons for continued mainframe use include reliability, security, and ability to handle large volumes of transactions. While less complex than supercomputers, mainframes are optimized for processing large external data sets. Key components that enable mainframe functions include MVS, CICS, DB2, and security tools like RACF. Mainframes continue to have relevance due to reliability and ability to handle large workloads, though their role may evolve over time.

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Mainframes

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Overview
• What is Mainframe • Access Methods
• Evolution • MVS
• Why Mainframes • Security in Mainframe
• Mainframe Vs Super Computer • CICS
• Speed and Performance • DB2
• Data Storage • Future of Mainframe

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What are Mainframes

• Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as


Big Iron) are computers used mainly by large
organizations for critical applications, typically
bulk data processing such as census, industry
and consumer statistics, ERP, and financial
transaction Processing

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Evolution Of Mainframes

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Why Mainframes

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Mainframe Vs Super Computer

Super Computer Mainframe


• Complex Use of Parallel Processing • Less Complex- Multi Tasking
• Supercomputers are optimized for • mainframes are optimized for comparatively
complicated computations that take place simple computations involving huge amounts
of external data
largely in memory
• Mainframes typically handle a wider variety
• Supercomputers are often purpose-built for of tasks (e.g. data processing, warehousing
one or a very few specific institutional tasks
(e.g. simulation and modeling).

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Speed and performance
• The CPU speed of mainframes has historically been measured in millions of instructions per second
(MIPS). MIPS have been used as an easy comparative rating of the speed and capacity of mainframes. The
smallest System z9 IBM mainframes today run at about 26 MIPS and the largest about 17,801 MIPS. IBM's
parallel sysplex technology can join up to 32 of these systems, making them behave like a single, logical
computing facility of as much as about 569,632 MIPS

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Performance

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Mainframe Transactions

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Mainframe Environment

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Data Set in Mainframe

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Data Set (contd)

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Data Storage

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Data Storage (contd)

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Access Methods

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Acess Methods-VSAM

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VSAM

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MVS
In the mid-1970s IBM introduced MVS, which allowed an indefinite
number of applications to run in different address space

Two concurrent programs might try to access the same virtual memory
address, but the virtual memory system redirected these requests to
different areas of physical memory.

Each of these address spaces consisted of 3 areas: operating system (one


instance shared by all jobs); application area which was unique for each
application; shared virtual area which was used for various purposes
including inter-job communication.

IBM promised that the application areas would always be at least 8MB.
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MVS (Contd)

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Security in Mainframe

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RACF

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CICS

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CICS-Communication

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CICS-Communication

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CICS-Flow

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Example for CICS

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DataBase

• DB2 is one of IBM's lines of relational


database management system (or, as IBM
now calls it, data server) software products
• The name DB2 was first given to the Database
Management System or DBMS in 1983 when
IBM released DB2 on its MVS mainframe
platform

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DB2-Few Facts

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DB2

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Future of Mainframe

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Future of Mainframe (contd)….some facts

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Thank You

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