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Izzi Software Launches Z/XDC on Visual Studio Code

New expansion integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, supporting young programmers by improving accessibility

July TechPulse Recap: Hybrid Cloud

For July, TechPulse surveyed IBM Power professionals on how they’re distributing workloads across on-premises and cloud infrastructure, where their biggest hybrid cloud headaches lie and whether their IBM i shops could keep printing critical forms and labels if the internet went down—among other questions. The sample size of eight respondents was smaller than TechPulse’s recent […]

Celebrating the Power 11 Family’s New Addition

Rob McNelly provides details on the recent S1112 announcement and reflects on his upcoming writing/blogging anniversary

Reactive to Proactive: A More Confident Approach to IBM i Monitoring

Businesses trust IBM i to support the applications and workflows that process their invoices, operate their warehouses, dispatch their shipments, and most important of all, serve their customers. IBM i is the high point for reliability for any business application, but even the most reliable environments need visibility to be properly secured, maintained, and monitored. […]

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Native IBM AIX Security Capabilities: A Cheat Sheet

Ahmed Mashhour, a senior IT managing consultant and IBM Power lead, provides a guide to the security capabilities already built into the OS

AI Writes Code. Enterprise Engineering Delivers Software.

René De Vleeschauwer, founder and CEO of IKAN, explains why the key to AI success lies beyond code generation

3 Views on AI: The C-Suite, the Worker and the Mainframer

Pat Stanard, Distinguished Engineer and chief mainframe architect for Kyndryl US, considers how perceptions of AI vary depending on one’s role within the organization

AI Doesn’t Eliminate Technical Debt—It Amplifies It

Data expert Craig Mullins explains why decades of shortcuts become tomorrow’s AI failures as organizations reckon with poor data quality

IBM i 7.5 TR8 and 7.6 TR2 Highlight ‘Zero Downtime’ Aspirations—and the Value of Community Input

The IBM i team highlights enhancements from the latest round of Technology Refreshes

Creating a Containerized Application on Z: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this edition of ‘The IBM Z Experience,’ Joe Gulla extends a banking application consisting of CICS transactions and data in Db2 databases

Why Your Enterprise Data Isn’t Good Enough for AI, With Craig Mullins

Craig Mullins, author of “The Cost of Good Enough Data: Why Modern Architectures Fail at Scale,” goes on IT Social Hour to explain how AI is changing data management standards

Simplify PowerVC Installations by Installing the PowerVC Appliance

Installing PowerVC has never been easier than with the new PowerVC appliance. Introduced with PowerVC 2.3.2, the PowerVC Virtual Appliance (PVCVA) packages all of the required software components into a single deployable image. Instead of manually installing and configuring each component, the appliance comes pre-configured and pre-tested, making PowerVC quicker and easier to deploy while […]

Mainframe Master Innovations: Automation and Mainframe Compliance

Power11 Lineup Welcomes Entry-Level S1112

The newest member of the Power11 family comes with up to 10 cores, in rack-mounted and deskside tower configurations

Transition Architecture: Modernization’s Missing Discipline?

Inspired by road construction season, veteran enterprise architect Bruce McKnight explains why the modernization journey deserves as much attention as the destination

An IBM Bob Early Adopter Shares Tips and Tricks

Rael Rodning, principal intelligent operations architect at Evolving Solutions, joins Andy Wig on IT Social Hour to share guidance on token efficiency, context management, security and more

NetSPI Expands Suite of Human-Led, AI-Powered Continuous Pentesting Services as Organizational Attack Surfaces Grow

IBM Announces Smaller z17 and LinuxONE 5 Configurations

As enterprises reckon with a data center squeeze, the new hardware brings the mainframe to a new type of customer

Why Observability Is Becoming a Hybrid Cloud Imperative

As applications increasingly span mainframes, on-premises systems, containers and AWS services, enterprises need a unified approach to monitoring and logging

IBM’s Mainframe Certificate Course Is Full of Surprises, Even for a ‘Grayframer’

Veteran mainframer Bruce McKnight discovers the value of re-examining platform fundamentals with fresh eyes

Craig S. Mullins Announces New Book: The Cost of ‘Good Enough’ Data: Why Modern Architectures Fail at Scale

The veteran database expert and technology author warns of a growing crisis of data debt that threatens AI initiatives, increases operational costs, creates compliance risks and undermines business decision-making.

When AI Learns From Bad Enterprise Data

It’s not about the models, the agents or the RAG. It’s about the information you feed to these tools, Craig Mullins writes

June TechPulse Recap: HA/DR Confidence More Common Than Full Validation

For June, TechPulse asked IBM Power professionals about the state of their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) environments, surveying 33 IBM Power professionals on the state of their HA/DR posture. The results point to a community that feels reasonably good about its recovery readiness in the abstract, but that confidence confidence softens once the […]

Options for Dynamically Increasing LUN Sizes

Rob McNelly explains the process of mapping storage through VIOS to IBM i partitions

Modernizing IBM i Document Workflows: Why Replacing AFP is the Next Step for Productivity

Organizations looking to modernize IBM i document workflows are increasingly evaluating alternatives to traditional AFP-based development because of maintenance costs, staffing challenges, and growing demands for dynamic digital distribution. Modernizing document workflows shouldn’t be a burden on your development team. Transitioning to a dedicated forms management solution like TLAForms allows organizations to bridge the gap […]

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