Only 25% of mainframe customers confident their security is GDPR compliant, new survey suggests

Improve mainframe security, say users – because data privacy rules are getting tougher, cyber criminals are getting smarter and mainframes are more connected to the outside world

Only one in four IBM mainframe customers questioned in a new UK survey are confident that their system security complies with the incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 31 per cent think they are not compliant, while 40 per cent do not know. Around four per cent are unsure what the GDPR is.

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Macro 4’s mainframe performance and fault analysis solutions to support IBM COBOL V6.1 launch

Macro 4’s mainframe performance and fault analysis solutions to support IBM COBOL V6.1 launch

March 16, 2016
Macro 4, a division of UNICOM® Global, has today announced that its mainframe performance and fault analysis solutions will support the new IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1, which becomes available to IBM customers on March 18th.

“This latest version of COBOL will incorporate advanced code generation and optimization technology to maximize hardware utilization and boost application performance. It also comes with new COBOL statements – including the JSON GENERATE statemen