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IBM Announces Evolution in Partnership with Amazon Web Services to Expand Generative AI Capabilities

IBM announced today that it will expand its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) for clients of both companies. By expanding their partnership, IBM and AWS aim to provide more efficient solutions for their clients’ critical use cases. By extending the partnership into the generative AI space, IBM and […]

Mainframe Master Innovations: Establishing the Future

IBM Champion Reg Harbeck connects with mainframe luminaries and leaders to highlight the people, technology, business and future of the mainframe

Preparing a VIOS for Maintenance Using the HMC

In this how-to tutorial, IBM’s Chris Gibson explains how to prepare a VIOS for maintenance with the HMC, from validation to error detection and post-maintenance activity

Automated Analysis and Transformation for Enterprise COBOL Applications

CM First’s John Rhodes and Roger Hammer on modernizing enterprise COBOL applications

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Open Mainframe Project Celebrates 5 Years of Zowe, Looks Back on Growth

Since the Open Mainframe Project was founded eight years ago, the program has grown and evolved to become a pillar of the mainframe community, serving as a focal point for the deployment and use of Linux and open-source technology on the mainframe. Over the past near-decade, Open Mainframe has branched out into several other projects […]

The Complete Beginners’ Guide to Hacking a Mainframe

Any movie or TV show makes hacking seem like a trivial affair. A couple of minutes of screen time and some nerdy kid shouts, “I’m in.” Five minutes later, all the data has been stolen and dangerous applications have been rewritten (compiled and executed). We know that’s not how it happens, but the worrying thing […]

Announcing IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9

Believe it or not, fall is here, which means it’s time for another IBM i announcement. The team has once again spent the summer traveling around the world listening to user feedback from our community and IBM i Advisory Councils and have delivered several key enhancements to our platform and Licensed Program Products (LPPs) that […]

Advice From an IBM i Developer: Just Get Out There

This transcript is edited for clarity. Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. Welcome to TechTalk SMB. Today I am meeting with Joseph Wright, who is an independent consultant. His company is Wright 400 Inc., and he is located in Southern California. I had the unique opportunity and pleasure to meet with Joseph at a recent conference at […]

A Student’s Journey Into Artificial Intelligence | Part 3: GPUs Change the Game

In part 3 of this series, Mark Ray highlights the start of the GPU age and sets the stage for future advancements in AI

COMMON Education Foundation: Connecting with the Next Generation of IT Talent

As the older generation of IT professionals looks toward retirement, filling the gaps left behind can be challenging. COMMON Education Foundation (CEF) seeks to help solve that challenge, connecting the next generation of IT talent with employers and educational resources. Laura Ubelhor, owner of Consultech Services Inc. and secretary of CEF, has been working with […]

The IBM i Marketplace Survey Reaches Year 10

This transcript is edited for clarity. Paul Tuohy: Hello and welcome to another iTalk Business with Tuohy. Delighted to be joined again today —we’re seeing a lot of each other a lot of each other recently, Tom [laughs]. Tom Huntington: I think it’s a good thing though, Paul. It’s a good thing. Paul: Oh, I know it […]

The Cost of a Data Breach Reaches an All-Time High of $4.45 Million

MGM Resorts was the latest victim of a social engineering hack that brought the casino chain to its knees. The breach happened last week when hackers obtained a password by posing as an employee of the Las Vegas resort chain. According to published reports on TechCrunch and Bloomberg, the attack crippled MGM’s hotel guest services […]

What’s Up With Merlin? An Update From the CTO

In May 2022, along with the announcement of IBM i 7.5, we rolled out a new application development and modernization solution called IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, or what we call Merlin for short. Merlin is an integrated set of tools that run in Red Hat OpenShift containers. The first set of tools […]

A Student’s Journey Into Artificial Intelligence | Part 2: Winter Ends

In part two of this series, Mark Ray explores the end of the First AI Winter and the technological developments of the ‘80s and ‘90s

Harness the Power of AI and IBM i Modernization

IBM’s Jason McGee and Rocket Software’s Puneet Kohli explain how AI is changing the way we think about modernization—and break down misconceptions about modernization on IBM i

An Early Warning System for Ransom Attacks and Mainframe Breaches

Most mainframe sites can’t afford to be down for more than a few minutes—let alone the hours or days required to respond to a cyberattack with conventional processes. What is needed is an early warning system to detect and neutralize the most common forms of malicious attacks. The Benefits and Risks of Encryption Encryption can […]

Essential Strategies for Mainframe Modernization

IBM’s Jason McGee and Rocket Software’s Phil Buckellew and outline key considerations for maintaining the mainframe as a key element of your modern IT infrastructure

IBM Support Insights: Infrastructure Management Simplified

IBM Support Insights provides a wealth of critical information to make admins’ jobs easier

Upcoming COMMON Events for Fall 2023

Summer is generally a quiet time for COMMON, but you can expect things to get busy again in the fall. And this year, there are some very exciting events on the schedule. IT Leadership Summit First, there will be a virtual IT Leadership Summit on September 7. The topic is “Generative AI and Security for […]

Shared Lives, Shared Careers…But Separate Offices

This transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I’m sitting here today with a couple of luminaries, in my opinion, in the IBM i community, people who when you first come to think of education in our community, advancing the platform certainly in many different […]

Redefining Modernization: Application Transformation

Anyone that works with a mainframe today understands that the mainframe is, indeed, already a modern machine. Just look at the new features with the z16. The key today is how do we optimize the mainframe to include the latest advancements and features of the mainframe. Optimizing allows the user to implement best practices based […]

The Subtle but Significant Differences Posed by Power10 Hardware and the New HMC

Rob McNelly urges old dogs to learn new tricks and shares additional thoughts about the recently retired Nigel Griffiths

IBM Introduces Watsonx Code Assistant for Z

The generative AI solution is designed to expedite mainframe modernization efforts

Manage IBM i Jobs With Service Commander

IBM i can run more technology than ever before. As such, the types of jobs that can be run are quite diverse—ILE programs, Db2 tasks and PASE programs can happily coexist. This synergy is indeed powerful, but it does come with a cost. All these jobs can be difficult to manage! Consider the simple notion […]

MainTegrity: Fight Back Against Ransomware

How to protect your mainframe and recover from malicious attacks

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