This newsletter (2012-10) contains the following topics:

You can imagine a lot of reasons why people or companies move. ABIS took the decision to change mainframe, a.o. for economical reasons. For clarity: we speak about a migration of mainframe to mainframe! But what kinds of aspects enter into this migration of a mainframe environment? Read the article.
This contribution is a brief tutorial on stored procedures in MySQL. At the same time, it's a report on our (ABIS') experiences with porting stored procedures written in SQL PL (DB2) to MySQL. To be successful, such a port requires some sort of standardised language across platforms. Hence the introductory section on the SQL/PSM standard. Read the article.
Si à ce jour vous êtes actifs dans le domaine des données - comme utilisateur, administrateur, architecte - il est peu probable que vous n'ayez pas encore rencontré le terme 'NoSQL'. Des articles traitant BigData, les podcast sur le Cloud,... tous font assez souvent référence a ce terme. Mais qu'est-ce que c'est, le NoSQL? Lisez l'article.