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Mainframe Skills 2030: Who Will Run Your IBM Z?

Craig Mullins contemplates the mainframe’s looming skills gap, highlights efforts to build a robust talent pipeline and describes the top five mainframe skills for IT professionals to learn

How DarkWeb Intelligence Can Help Shape Proactive Cybersecurity Strategies

To stay a step ahead of cybercriminals, venture into the shadowy corner of the internet where they gather

Mainframe Master Innovations: Securing the Future on the Solid Foundation of IBM Z

IBM Z security experts explore how and why security has always underpinned the mainframe platform

The Future of Barcoding: Unlocking the Potential of 2D Barcodes

Prepare for the shift to 2D barcodes! Discover how Barcode400 and TLAForms streamline compliance, efficiency and customer engagement.

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Profound Logic Wins AI Breakthrough Award for ‘Low Code AI Solution of the Year’

The 2025 AI Breakthrough Award recognizes the breakthrough innovation of Profound AI, which focuses on IBM i (AS/400) environments and is the only AI platform purpose-built for IBM integration.

Enhancing IBM i Security With Vanguard Compliance Manager (VCMi)

Download the e-book to learn how to simplify IBM i compliance, automate audits, enhance security and align with CIS benchmarks with Vanguard Compliance Manager.

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IT Social Hour: Life on the IBM Power Speaking Circuit

Click here to listen to the audio-only version Andy Wig: Hey everyone, welcome to IT Social Hour. We have made it to episode three. I have a fancy banner behind me now, so I guess it’s official. I’m Andy, Andy Wig. I’m the senior editor of TechChannel. And today we’re going to be talking about […]

Life After IBM Db2 Web Query for i: Finding an Alternative

Following the end of support for the business intelligence platform, IBM i consultant Rick Flagler answers the question, “What do we do now?”

IBM’s z17 Embraces the Quantum Countdown With Safety in Mind

IBM cryptography expert Anne Dames outlines the new mainframe’s quantum-safe capabilities

The Team Effort That Led to the z17

The IBM z17’s 43 billion transistors, 24 million miles of wire and 18 layers of metal form a system capable of 35 billion transactions a day. It’s safe to say it took a team effort to build it. In fact, the process of creating IBM’s new mainframe, hitting general availability June 18, was so extensive […]

z17 Tries to Top the GOAT

IBM looks to keep the momentum going with its new mainframe and a focus on future use cases

The Declaration of Mainframe: A United Community Celebrates a Revolutionary Platform

The Declaration of Mainframe serves as a tribute to the powerful platform and amazing community that, together, deliver unmatched value

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Profound AI Embraces MCP: Your IBM i Systems Now Speak the Same Language as ChatGPT

Profound AI now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – the open standard that’s revolutionizing how AI systems connect to business data and applications.

The Unique Benefits of z/OS-Native Database Systems

This is the first of two “z/OS and Friends” articles on database management systems. I am focused on z/OS because there are families of products, like the Db2 family, that run on different platforms, and because of platform differences, the products consume CPU cycles and utilize memory and storage in different ways. There are many […]

Emerging Security Threats Need Tomorrow’s Solutions

Puneet Kohli, president of the application modernization business unit at Rocket Software, explains how companies can protect themselves today

My Hands-on Experience With IBM Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on z/OS

Afroz Alam, senior product developer at BMC Software, outlines three authentication methods he tested

IBM Brings Server Design Changes to OpenSSH

Rob McNelly explains what he found helpful about the changes before sharing IBM Support tips and detailing his latest hiking adventure

Automating AIX Recovery With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Zabbix

Andy Wojnarek of ATS Group explains how AIX teams integrate Zabbix with Red Hat Ansible Automation and Event-Driven Ansible to automate filesystem recovery, performance tuning and adapter reconfiguration

M81 Launches Version 4.01 of Control for i, Revolutionizing Monitoring for IBM i Systems

IMS Transaction Manager: From Its Moonshot Roots to More Recent Product Enhancements

In this installment of “z/OS and Friends,” Joe Gulla examines IMS Transaction Manager’s beginnings, then considers how modern enhancements continue to make it an important component of z/OS

A Guide to ClamAV Open-Source Anti-Malware for AIX

Chris Gibson explains how to install, configure and use the signature-based software

Tricentis Expands to Latin America to Accelerate Advancements in AI-Powered Software Testing

Tricentis research finds 75% of Latin American companies ship code changes without fully testing them, compromising quality and efficiency and underscoring the urgency for advanced software testing solutions in the region.

Cloudera Delivers AI-Powered Unified Data Visualization in On-Premises Data Centers

Available across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, Cloudera Data Visualization includes integrated AI visualization and natural language querying for enterprises to improve collaboration and decision making.

IBM watsonx Code Assistant for i, IBM i 7.6 and AI—Steve Will’s Thoughts From POWERUp 2025

The IBM i CTO covers the topics that had COMMON’s conference abuzz, makes a request for old (very old) RPG code and gets ready for Star Wars night

Decoding Millennial and Gen Z Workplace Communication

Making our Strong Community Stronger webinar highlights the different communication styles the two generations bring to the workplace