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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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Mainframe Security in the Age of AI

In theory, mainframe security should be easy—mainframes use RACF or similar products to control who can do what. However, security has never really been that easy, and today it definitely isn’t easy at all. The Challenges of Modern Mainframe Security First, mainframes aren’t little islands of computer processing anymore. They are intimately connected to the […]

POSIX-tivity and IBM Z

“Standard,” according to en.wiktionary.org, can be used as a noun that means, “Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.” The history of standards is a deeply interwoven thread through the history of humanity. But the emergence of computing and IT over the past century has been a somewhat special yarn. On one […]

When the Latest and Greatest Isn’t That Great

Rob McNelly on the challenges posed by some technological innovations, notes from IBM Support, and a shout-out to the newly retired Nigel Griffiths

The Glass Is More Than Half Full: From Attack to Defense

Vertali’s Mark Wilson discusses why it’s time to change the mindset around mainframes and cyber threats—making the platform part of every cybersecurity conversation in the organization

Harnessing the Power of AI in the Financial Industry

AI is all the rage in the tech industry as well as the mainstream media as more and more news stories talk about OpenAI and ChatGPT. But its capabilities extend beyond those generative uses. “Despite the lack of familiarity for most people, AI is a technology that’s transforming the way we do business, interact and, […]

Performance Implications for CICS Applications Using COBOL Version 6

Rocket Software’s Ezriel Gross highlights a methodology for CICS problem analysis and performance tuning—and shares how it led to a 92% savings in CPU for a heavily used transaction