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z/OS and Friends: IMS Transaction Manager and Database Manager Support Tens of Thousands of Transactions a Second

This comprehensive overview highlights the exceptional performance and reliability of IMS, explains the hierarchical database model, details the various types of IMS databases and more

IBM and Salesforce Activate Enterprise Data on IBM Z, Preview New AI Agents

To use it as a catalyst for agentic AI, IBM and Salesforce are providing customers access to their business data in IBM Z mainframes and Db2 databases.

Lumen and IBM Collaborate to Unlock Scalable AI for Businesses

Lumen Technologies and IBM announced a new collaboration to develop enterprise-grade AI solutions at the edge—integrating watsonx, IBM’s portfolio of AI products, with Lumen’s Edge Cloud infrastructure and network.

Introducing GitLab Ultimate for IBM Z: Next-Gen Tooling in DevOps for IBM Z

This powerful integration delivers a unified experience for mainframe and cloud-native development, helping enterprises modernize their software delivery and unlock new levels of speed, security and scalability.

How Hacking Got Easy

Where AI Gets Real: Multimodal Breakthroughs

How multimodal AI is sparking innovation in industries ranging from medical research, to air travel, to insurance

ModelOp Recognized in AI Governance Landscape Analyst Report

The first commercially available AI governance software that helps enterprises bring AI initiatives to market faster and at scale while building trust and mitigating risk included in major analyst report.

Robert Half Research Reveals Key Priorities and Challenges Facing Today’s Technology Leaders

Focus areas include closing skills gaps, addressing technical debt and advancing tech modernization and digital transformation

Before Copy and Paste, There Was Just … Copy

Rob McNelly shares the story of a client going old school to deal with a locked-down virtual desktop; IBM i announces details; and tips and updates from IBM Support

Understanding the Nuances of Database Systems on the IBM Z Mainframe

Craig Mullins looks at the characteristics that make mainframe databases unique, and how understanding them is key to database management

Unpacking IBM i 7.6 and 7.5 TR6 With Scott Forstie

The IBM i senior technical staff member joins Charlie Guarino to talk about enhancements including new SQL capabilities, improved authority collection for IFS and security advances like MFA

At 65, COMMON Keeps Growing

Manzoor Siddiqui, COMMON’s executive director, assesses the state of the IBM Power user group ahead of its largest event of the year

z/OS and Friends: Rich Functionality Is What CICS Is All About—Then and Now

Joe Gulla traces the evolution of the Customer Information Control System (CICS), harkening back to its first release and providing a comprehensive accounting of its modern-day application development capabilities

New Mainframe Market Survey Reveals Fresh Focus on Silos, Strategic Goals and Specialization

Results underline modernization appetite to address Topical challenges while leveraging new mainframe capabilities

Announcing Manzan: The Future of IBM i Event Monitoring

The open source project is designed to simplify the process of publishing IBM i system events

Tips for Leveraging Your GenAI Code Assistant

Brenno Oliveira of Kyndryl explains how to craft prompts that will maximize the effectiveness of AI coding sidekicks

Broadcom Introduces Industry’s First Incident Prediction Capability to Stop Living-Off-The-Land Attacks

Leveraging advanced AI, Symantec Endpoint Security can predict cybercriminals’ moves in the attack chain, quickly stop them and return organizations to a state of cyber resilience.

BMC’s New GenAI Innovations Drive Business Value From Data

The solutions and capabilities increase velocity, improve operational resiliency and drive efficiency.

2025 IBM X-Force Threat Index: Large-Scale Credential Theft Escalates, Threat Actors Pivot to Stealthier Tactics

Cybercriminals continued to pivot to stealthier tactics, with lower-profile credential theft spiking, while ransomware attacks on enterprises declined.

How to Make the Most of Your 2025 POWERUp Experience

COMMON’s LeAnn Taylor shares her tips for thriving at the upcoming Power conference, covering networking, education and the importance of enjoying yourself

96% of Enterprises Are Expanding Use of AI Agents, According to Latest Data From Cloudera

The survey polled nearly 1,500 enterprise IT leaders across 14 countries to understand their adoption patterns, use cases and sentiments around AI agents.

With z17’s New Chips, AI Is No Longer an Add-on

Mukesh Khare, GM of IBM Semiconductors, provides a closer look at IBM’s AI efforts, highlighted by the introduction of the z17

Mainframe Engineering: The Heavy Weight of Debugging

The complexities and nuances of finding and fixing mainframe code errors

Data Management Trends for 2025 (That Aren’t Cloud or AI)

While cloud and AI get much of the attention, there are other ongoing advancements that database administrators should be aware of

Announcing IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 TR6

IBM i CTO Steve Will covers enhancements for security, database, system administration, application development and HA/DR