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Humor, Hard Work and Other Keys to Success in Tech: Jaqui Lynch on IT Social Hour

Jaqui Lynch, a current IBM Power consultant and former mainframer, recounts how her sense of humor and work ethic helped her persevere in a male-dominated field

Your z17 Upgrade Calculus: How Cutting-Edge Do You Need to Be?

Mainframe analyst Steven Dickens and Rick Schoonmaker, director of product management for IBM Z and LinuxONE hardware, explain what you need to be thinking about at this point in the hardware cycle

New Orleans, Here We Come: Previewing POWERUp 2026

Organizers promise more opportunities to make personal connections and learn about the emerging technologies affecting their work

Automation Isn’t Accountability: Why the DBA Still Owns the Outcome on IBM Z

While there is real value in automation and much promise in AI, human expertise will still be required—because humans will still be accountable, Craig Mullins observes

Observability and Telemetry: Why IBM i Shops Should Care

Dawn May outlines IBM i’s unique strengths in observability and telemetry while exploring ways to extend those capabilities to other environments

Building Real-Time Data Pipelines to the Cloud Without Disruption

How enterprises can stream data from mainframe and Power systems to the cloud to support real-time analytics and AI applications

Updated for 2026: IBM Power Education & Training Showcase

This skills development resource features new success stories about a trucker’s mid-career pivot and a candy company’s exemplary succession planning model

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration With Arm to Shape Future of Enterprise Computing

Collaboration aims to advance new technologies that expand infrastructure choice while preserving mission-critical environments.

IBM Bob Is Here

The platform-neutral, AI-driven IDE became generally available March 24 as IBM highlighted early case studies

Understanding a Legend, From Pre-Z to the Present: Welcome to ‘The IBM Z Experience’

Joe Gulla follows up on ‘z/OS and Friends’ with a new series, setting out to understand the impact of the mainframe through a lens of innovation, realization and transformation

Working Magic with hmcscanner

Rob McNelly conjures an Excel file and gets a timely reminder

TechPulse Digest (Mainframe): Unpacking 3 Months of Surveys With John Rhodes of CM First

John Rhodes helps Andy Wig interpret three months of results from TechChannel’s TechPulse micro-survey program

TechPulse Digest (IBM Power): Analyzing Q1 Surveys With Mike Schuett of TL Ashford

The marketing director joins Andy Wig to look at the first three months of TechChannel’s new micro-survey program

IBM and ETH Zurich Partner to Shape the Future of Algorithms for the AI and Quantum Era

The companies launched a 10-year initiative to advance foundational algorithmic research.

Get It Straight: Mainframe Migration Is Not Modernization

Mark Schettenhelm, principal product manager at BMC, notices that when people talk about modernization, they often mean migration—to their own detriment

Women Driving Tech 2026

Recognizing the women who are shaping the future of the IBM Z and Power communities through leadership, innovation and technical excellence

A ‘Grayframer’ Comes to Terms With ‘Vibe Coding’

Even if AI writes the code, humans still have to understand it, veteran mainframer Bruce McKnight reasons

IBM Quantum Computer Accurately Simulates Real Magnetic Materials, Reproducing National Laboratory Data

The results match neutron scattering experiments, marking a significant step toward using quantum computers as reliable tools for scientific discovery

Your IBM i Data Is the AI Advantage Nobody’s Talking About

Rick Hurckes, director of services at mrc, explains the critical role of data quality in successful AI deployments, and why IBM i is so well positioned for this new era

Copy, Sync, Cloud: Using Rclone for AIX Backups

Moving AIX backups to Google Drive and other cloud services has never been this straightforward, AIX expert Chris Gibson writes

SecureCare: IBM i Security and Compliance Expertise at Your Side

Cybersecurity continues to dominate IBM i planning conversations, with 64% of this year’s IBM i Marketplace Survey respondents citing it as a top IT concern. Yet many organizations are simultaneously grappling with: When your team is already stretched thin and specialized skills are hard to find, knowing where to begin can feel overwhelming. Partner with […]

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The Double-Edged AI Threat, Quantum and More: TechPulse Survey Reveals Mainframe Security Sentiments 

When it comes to security, the emerging threat of AI and the looming threat of quantum decryption are top-of-mind for mainframers, according to the results of the March TechPulse micro-survey. Sixty-seven respondents weighed in on top emerging security threats, the role of security in hardware decisions, barriers to implementing security controls, and the status of […]

AI Tops Security Concerns—in More Ways Than One: March TechPulse Results 

The IBM Power community is closely monitoring the progress of AI as they prepare for emerging security threats, viewing both AI-assisted attacks and the exploitation of AI systems as top security concerns, according to results of the March TechPulse survey on cybersecurity. Meanwhile, the looming threat of quantum decryption also weighs heavily on their minds. […]

IBM Announces Expanded Collaboration with NVIDIA to Advance AI for the Enterprise

The collaboration aims to give enterprises the data foundation, infrastructure and expertise to move AI from pilot to production.

NetSPI Announces New Platform User Experience

Use case-driven, AI-accelerated experience brings critical security workflows to two clicks or less.