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Node.js and Linux on System Z

by devniel on 11/24/14, 2:49 PM with 8 comments

• by rodgerd on 11/25/14, 7:01 AM

  It's an interesting combination with IBM shipping REST capability with CICS[1]. From what I've seen in this area (I work for a shop with zOS and zLinux) IBM are getting heavily onboard the mobile-first bandwagon. So REST-enable your existing transactional CICS code, get fast access to it via hipersockets to your node.js/zLinux server, and then deliver it to your front-ends.

  [1] Define some bindings on your CICS side, run some JCL, now you have a REST service.

• by angersock on 11/24/14, 6:54 PM

  I'm...wow. I don't even know what to say.

  This accomplishes Node in the enterprise, I guess?

  Where can we find rockstar mainframe programmers?

• by bcoates on 11/24/14, 8:54 PM

  zSeries have transactional memory -- it'd be interesting to see that used for opportunistic multithreading in node.js.