IBM WebSphere® Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS®: An Administrator’s Guide

Foreword

When we first introduced the IBM^® WebSphere^® Application Server software (WebSphere), we had a vision that we were creating the foundation for information computing for the next several decades. We had as inspiration the IBM traditions of TPF, IMS, CICS^®, DB2^® and MQ—middleware platforms that have been hosting mission-critical business applications for the last 40 years. Only the future will tell whether our aspirations will be realized but in the short history that has amassed so far every indication is that we have established a solid foundation for achieving exactly that. WebSphere is used at some of the largest corporations in the world for both web-based information-computing as well as core on-line transactional computing. Companies ...