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Minimize VIOS Downtime With Alternate Disk Updates

Chris Gibson shows how to use the updateios command to update a VIOS from 4.1.2.00 to 4.1.2.10

The AI Data Supply Chain: Why It Should Start With Your Systems of Record

Craig Mullins highlights the importance of understanding what’s happening to AI data at every step of the journey, from source to application

Beyond Lift-and-Shift: AI-Led Paths to Mainframe Transformation

Surasa Mukherjee, associate director in Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture at Kyndryl, explains the value of AI-assisted discovery, dependency analysis, documentation and knowledge retrieval

The Horizon Is Here: Security, AI and the New Threat Landscape

In this special report from TechChannel, experts from the IBM Power ecosystem share observations and advice on the new challenges facing cybersecurity teams.

Eyeing the ‘Future of Work,’ AWS Expands Kiro for Students Program

AWS seeks to encourage structured thinking and practical training by getting its agentic development tool in front of more students

Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data

Collaboration brings Mistral’s frontier models and capabilities directly to Cloudera customers’ governed data.

Enterprise AI Agents Need Authority Maps Before They Get More Tools

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, draws on lessons from the Hugging Face incident as he shares five questions an authority map should be able to answer about AI agents

LTM Collaborates with IBM and Red Hat on Lightwell to Advance AI-Driven Open-Source Software Remediation

The partnership aims to help enterprises safeguard the open-source software supply chain through AI-driven vulnerability remediation.

Where Does Amazon Bedrock Fit in the Enterprise AI Stack?

AWS is reporting strong demand for Bedrock, but where should enterprises actually place it in the AI stack, particularly those coming from mainframe environments?

NetSPI and Synack to Merge, Forming Combined Offensive Cybersecurity Platform

Combined company pairs elite ‘white hat’ hackers with agentic AI to deliver security validation at scale.

2026 Rising Stars Nominations Are Now Open

The TechChannel initiative recognizes those who are new to their platform but are already making an impact

REXX Execution Explained: Explicit, Implicit and Batch

New-to-Z systems engineer Stephen Johnston explains the three primary ways to run REXX on z/OS, something that’s not immediately obvious to new mainframers

What to Do if Your VIOS Backup Fails

Rob McNelly aggregates updates and alerts from IBM Support, including vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS, recent APARS, updateios and altdisk problem scenarios and more, including an update on his Arizona adventures

The AI Natives Are Coming. What Kind of Technologists Will They Be?

Dana Woods, an educator and technology integration specialist, sees first-hand how AI is shaping young minds; he shares his observations on IT Social Hour

Enhancing z/OS Applications While Preserving Core System Integrity: The Technologies You Need to Know

In this edition of the ‘IBM Z Experience,’ Joe Gulla explains how the mainframe can be so much more than the system of record

Why Cloud-Native Site Reliability Engineering Is Becoming a Mainframe Skill

As transaction paths become more complex, Scott Petry of PwC US stresses the increasing importance of automation, observability, incident management and more

August TechPulse Recap: Modernization—The Project That Never Ends

For August, TechPulse asked IBM Power professionals about their approach to modernization—how they’re pacing it, where AI tools fit in, what’s actually driving the work and how legacy IBM i forms and documents factor into the picture. Thirteen respondents weighed in, and the results suggest a community that’s largely moved past crisis-mode modernization, even as […]

IBM’s First Dual-Architecture Mainframe Processor Brings Arm Technology to Z and LinuxONE

As the first product of the companies’ new partnership, the next-generation processor will vastly expand software options on the mainframe

Clearing Up IBM Technologists’ Biggest Misconceptions About AWS (and Vice Versa)

James Roarty, chief cloud officer at Lightedge, has seen things from both sides, explaining how he went from being ‘all in on cloud’ to a more nuanced view

SCLM Is Going Away. Replacing It Takes More Than Git.

The question now is how to manage the complete application lifecycle, not just source conversion, according to René De Vleeschauwer, founder and CEO of IKAN

Taking Greater Control of Live Partition Mobility

Using the vfc resource label as an example, Chris Gibson provides a practical introduction to VIOS group labels

The Stability Trap: What’s Hiding in Your IBM i Operations?

IBM i’s reliability is legendary. But that same stability can breed complacency, and small, overlooked issues can quietly grow into costly outages. Fortra’s latest Ask the Experts episode tackles this head-on: “The Stability Trap: Don’t Let Complacency Turn Small Problems into Big Shutdowns.” Three seasoned IBM i practitioners walk through the operational areas where risk […]

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Modernize the Application, Not Necessarily the Platform

Craig Mullins illustrates why mainframe application modernization should begin with business requirements, not a migration mandate

Use NOT FENCED UDFs for Better Db2 for i Performance

Dawn May explains why it’s important to understand your options beyond the “slow and safe” default

New IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 Systems Now Available

New deployment options designed to bring the power of AI and enterprise-grade resiliency to a broader set of organizations