Infotel Issues Guidelines for Mainframe Application Best Practices in Code Quality Assurance Whitepaper
Infotel Corp. USA releases whitepaper to address common optimization issues database management professionals face with their Db2 for IBM z/OS investments.
TAMPA, Fla., March 21, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Infotel, international provider of data performance and optimization solutions for z/OS, recently issued guidelines for SQL code quality assurance for IBM z/OS in a latest thought-leading whitepaper. The whitepaper titled, "SQL Quality Assurance on IBM z/OS" offers actionable guidelines for best-practice code quality assurance to standardize SQL code and improve the quality of mainframe database applications.
Since its introduction in 1983, IBM's Db2 on SQL has become the dominant DBMS and data management language respectively, and it is where the most critical data and apps reside for both government and commercial industry. Every year, more software programs are built with SQL, more data is managed by Db2, and more programmers are trained on the enterprise systems that run the largest IT environments in the world. With this massive workload, Db2 optimization is critical to the mainframe's ability to deliver applications to service level agreements.
In the whitepaper, Infotel advises organizations to make sure CPU consumption is optimized, and code quality assurance technology with automation is the best way to achieve this.
"If you swipe your credit card today, there's a 99.9 percent chance that transaction will go through a mainframe computer," said Carlos Almeida, business analyst at Tampa, Florida-based Infotel Corp. "There is a reason we call the mainframe 'big iron' in banking, finance, healthcare, and government. It is the global computing workhorse, running in the shadows powering much of what we do on the internet. Application quality delivered from z/OS plays a huge role in your daily internet experience."
Infotel's whitepaper is aimed at Global 1000 organizations in these mainframe-rich industries where it is common for a host of developers to be working on the same Db2 SQL application. These developers then bring many different coding styles to a project, and since the coding environment for SQL for is very rich, this means that code is often cobbled together in a less-than-ideal way that may work but does not necessarily as intended. Coding inconsistencies from this diversity of developers and coding styles can ultimately lead to app failure or other major performance problems down the line in production.
DBAs address this problem with some coding standards but spend an inordinate amount of time manually checking to see that the code is up to preset standards set forth by the organization. Infotel's SQL quality assurance whitepaper provides DevOps professionals, DBAs and developers some insight into the automated methodology it uses with clients to improve application delivery on Db2 for the mainframe. It is meant to arm database management professionals with the information they need to keep applications running on computers at top performance levels.
To learn more about how Infotel helps clients enforce code quality standards for their mainframe applications, download the whitepaper "SQL Quality Assurance on IBM z/OS" at bit.ly/infotel-sql-wp, or contact us directly at software(at)infotel(dot)com.
About Infotel
Infotel Corp., based in Tampa, Florida, is a software vendor and IT consulting firm specializing in data performance and optimization solutions for the Mainframe z/OS platform. For more than 40 years, Infotel has delivered proven solutions to help clients improve their data management systems. For more information on Infotel Corp., please visit https://www.infotel.com/us/.
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