Pain free Spark/Cobol files integration. Seamlessly query your COBOL/EBCDIC binary files as Spark Dataframes and streams. Add mainframe as a source to your data engineering strategy. Among the ...

The IBM 29 Card Punch (also called the 029 or Type 029 Key Punch or Keypunch), introduced about 1964 to coincide with the introduction of the IBM 360. Available in nine models with various ...

The image shows Herman Hollerith's 1890 tabulating machine (image from IBM; CLICK HERE for a color photo). The results of a tabulation are displayed on the clock-like dials. A sorter is on the right.

While ASCII characters display correctly on all terminals, this is not the case of all characters. When building a terminal application or tool, it is common to experience cross-platform issues like: ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...