July 5, 2018
Did you know that 23 of the world’s top 25 retailers rely on the mainframe to power their business? Mainframe plays an important role in the retail industry, helping all kinds of[...]
June 27, 2018
In the security world, few subjects receive more headlines than stories about credit card breaches. This one article alone covers four different companies that experienced data[...]
June 27, 2018
When you set up SSL for UniVerse and UniData servers, or for ODBC or OLEDB clients, you need to let the UniData and UniVerse server or client know where to find the SSL properties[...]
June 20, 2018
Having worked in mainframes for decades, I’ve had a front-row seat to one of the industry’s most persistent problems: its attitude toward mainframe security. For a long time, the[...]
June 20, 2018
External Database Access (EDA) enables you to convert data stored in a Rocket UniVerse and UniData database to a first normal form (1NF) database, such as Microsoft SQL Server, then[...]
June 13, 2018
As many of you know, my dad, Dick Pick, along with Don Nelson, were the creators of G.I.R.L.S. more than fifty years ago. G.I.R.L.S. was initially built for tracking spare parts for[...]
June 6, 2018
Overview
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform for building high performance data integration solutions, including extraction, transformation, and load (ETL[...]
June 4, 2018
Mainframes are the definition of mission-critical for countless businesses. Mainframes can run 1.1 million transactions per second and are at the core of the technology strategies[...]
June 4, 2018
The primary focus of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the protection of cardholder data. PCI DSS provides controls for cardholder data that is stored[...]