This reader contains 24 articles on z/Architecture, z/OS, and its many “friends,” including the Base Control Program, networking and management utilities, and major software products like the Customer Information Control System and Information Management System. Hundreds of built-in elements, optional features, and program products are explored and discussed.
This book is for technologists who are new to mainframe computing or for those who want to “catch up” after stepping away from large, centralized systems for a time. These articles originally appeared on the TechChannel website.
With the guileless wonder, the innocence of a little girl, Alaina is profoundly changed by the performance of a school play. As she falls in love with the art of live theater, her enthusiasm lands her center stage. Alaina recounts “But when I opened my mouth, the right words didn’t come out. I was too excited to say that little speech. It wasn’t good enough for that great play, so . . .”
Joseph Gulla continues to sustain a career working in IT and business since his retirement from IBM in 2012. Since that time, he has formed a North Carolina Corporation named Royal Swan Enterprises, Inc. (RSE) with Rosemarie which has three businesses. Alazar Press is a children’s publishing house that is part of RSE (catalog of 12 books) as is WINGS (teaching practice using school grants) and technical writing carried on by Joseph in a contract-by-contract manner. At present, Joseph is CFO of RSE and GM of Alazar Press. He is also on contract to write 24 articles in 2025 for TechChannel and works on projects for StreamFoundry, Inc. an IT services company.
Joseph is a former volunteer treasurer of Stagville, a NC Historical Site and is on the Advisory board for Durham Chamber Arts Society at Duke University. Joseph has a BA from La Salle College in the arts; an MBA in MIS from La Salle University; and a PhD from Nova Southeastern University.
Joseph has extensive teaching experience with MBA and PhD courses and many commercial courses for IBM including MVS Concepts, JCL and Utilities, SMP/E, CICS Application Programming, NetView Network and Systems Management and other courses. He has served on two committees for PhD students who successfully defended their research.
