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Charles Mills on His Mainframe Journey and the Future of IBM Z

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with my friend and colleague Charles Mills who has written all kinds of applications both on the mainframe and talking to the mainframe and just been really involved in the whole journey of the mainframe. Well before telling you all about him myself, Charles why […]

TechChannel E-book: Streamline IBM Z Modernization With DevOps Approaches and Hyperscalers

As technology and business constantly evolve, so do requirements for change—making modernization top of mind for organizations hoping to keep up with key business objectives and needs. With this in mind, it’s more important than ever to develop an effective modernization strategy that specifically fit these needs. Mainframe-based businesses need to transition to a DevOps […]

Open Mainframe Project Holds Second Annual Open Mainframe Summit

On Sept. 22 – 23, 2021, following last year’s inaugural conference, the Open Mainframe Project held its second Open Mainframe Summit. The virtual event brought together many members of the mainframe community, from students to hobbyists, seasoned professionals to new engineers, developers and educators. Together, speakers and attendees were able to share their insights, connect with […]

Why Everyone Should Capture Performance Baselines

With most numerical data, a number requires a reference point for meaning, and performance data is filled with numbers. Baseline data provides reference points for numerical data and are essential for good performance management. A baseline is simply a collection of system performance metrics saved from a known point in time. Baselines are useful to […]

Christian Jacobi, Chief Architect for IBM Z Processors, on the New IBM Telum Chip

IBM’s new Telum chip fulfills clients’ business imperatives with a new cache infrastructure, optimized core and the ability to embed AI directly into enterprise workloads. First announced at the annual Hot Chips conference, this innovative processor chip enables IBM clients to leverage AI technologies and grow their workloads. Christian Jacobi, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect […]

IBM i Power Champion Mats Lidström on Sweden Going Cashless and How Technology Plays a Big Role

Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB and this month's podcast I'm very happy to be joined by Mats Lidström. Mats Lidström is the CPO and IBM i chief architect at Apper Systems AB located in Sweden. Mats has a very impressive and long history using IBM i […]

Tim Rowe on the New IBM Navigator for i

Paul Tuohy: Hi everyone. Welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. Delighted to be joined again today by Tim Rowe who is the business architect for application development and systems management for IBM i and now that I've read out your title Tim, I'm afraid that's all we have time for today.    Tim Rowe: The abbreviated version […]

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on the New AIX 7.3 Announcement

AIX 7.3 was announced on October 19, 2021. Get the details from Rob McNelly in this video.

5 Quick Ways to Speed up Your z/OS Batch Without Application Changes

z/OS users understand that batch is still important. However, with pressure to reduce downtime and offer 24-7 online services, it seems we always need to reduce our batch window. Or in other words, make our batch jobs run faster. The good news is that z/OS has a lot of features that may speed up batch, […]

How to Become a Happier Mainframe Professional

Some people might think that working on a mainframe every day is enough to make anyone happy, but as a mainframe professional, what could you do to make yourself happier? The usual response when people are asked what would make them happier is to suggest that they would like a higher salary and more time […]

How to Check NPIV Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Mapping on AIX

AIX/Power System administrators can now use an alternative to kdb for viewing VIOS “identifying info” from client AIX LPARs. Learn more from Chris Gibson here.

Monitoring Tools for Power Systems and AIX

Monitoring tools improve service availability and productivity by proactively identifying, diagnosing and repairing slow or otherwise unstable connections. On the other hand, management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, and application performance impacts. For above-mentioned […]

AIX 7.3 Leverages Power10 Processor to Support Customers’ Hybrid Multicloud and AI Endeavors

The new AIX 7.3 release brings customers new ways to integrate their mission critical infrastructure with new and enhanced capabilities. IBM designed AIX 7.3 in response to feedback from customers, particularly around extracting business value from data and supporting their hybrid multicloud strategies. Its new features take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Power10 […]

A New AIX Video Series and the Latest on AIX Open Beta and Power10

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on his new TechChannel AIX video series, and the latest news on Power10 and AIX open beta

Bringing Choice, Consistency and Protection to Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Hybrid cloud has quickly grown in popularity, but with this extensive growth it’s more important than ever for organizations to develop strategies that address cost control, IT complexity, cybersecurity threats and data corruption. When developing a hybrid cloud strategy, notes Scott Baker, VP, Storage Product Marketing for IBM, it’s important for organizations to define what […]

Active Prestart Jobs in New Navigator

With New Nav, you have a graphical user interface and you no longer need to craft your own queries to get at the data. Learn the benefits from Dawn May here.

COBOL and IBM Z Longevity

What do COBOL and IBM have in common? They have the same middle name: business! In an era when consumer electronics personal computing and the idea that everything computing “wants to be free,” it can be easy to forget the essential role of business in the very existence and relevance of computing. Of course, the […]

Latest IBM Storage Announcements Address Key Hybrid Cloud Pain Points for Clients

As hybrid cloud environments grow in popularity, organizations must develop strategies that address increasing IT complexity, public cloud costs, cyberattack threats and other data destructive events. Today, IBM in announcing new capabilities and integrations designed to mitigate these pain points—helping organizations reduce IT complexity, deploy cost-effective solutions and improve cyberresilience across hybrid cloud environments. These […]

Special Report: COBOL Survey Results Prove Pervasiveness, Value and a Bright Future

“Housework is something that nobody notices unless you don’t do it.” So the old saw goes. And it’s easy to see why—or rather to fail to see when you can just take it for granted. In the same way, looking at the limited general awareness of COBOL’s role in the world of digital commerce, one […]

TechChannel E-book: How to Effectively Monitor and Measure Your Data Center

Running an efficient data center requires constant monitoring and measurement. This means understanding everything from storage best practices and tools for maximizing performance. Data temperature, for example, often determines the percentage of budget that gets devoted to storing different types of data. Once you create process maps based on the data’s temperature, you can better […]

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Use Cases for SQL’s CASE statement

Have you ever wanted to conditionally do some processing in an SQL SELECT statement? I‘m sure you have, as this isn’t really an unusual situation. In RPG and other languages, we have the IF or SELECT statements for this. In an SQL procedure, you can also use IF. But in a SELECT statement, the way […]

Carol Woodbury on Security Strategies and Best Practices

Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I am so happy today to sit down and have a nice chat with the former IBM i security architect of IBM i and the current co-founder of DXR Security, a company that helps organizations change their IBM i security one […]

Rudi Van Helvoirt on COVID-19 and the Future of SQL Programming

Paul Tuohy: Hi everyone and welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. I'm delighted to be joined today by, I think long overdue iTalk with my friend, my colleague and IBM Champion Rudi Van Helvoirt. Rudi, how are you?   Rudi Van Helvoirt: I'm fine.   Paul: Did I kill your name? Was I close enough in the […]

Protecting Data Within New HA/DR Parameters

There are two types of organizations in the world: those that have experienced unplanned system downtime and those that will. Of the first group, many have likely tightened up their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) methods and tools as a result of their incidents, moving, for example, to hosted cloud-based HA/DR services. Within the […]

The Cost of Enterprise Downtime

Enterprise downtime is now more expensive than ever: Some 44% of firms indicate that hourly downtime costs exceed $1 million to over $5 million, exclusive of any legal fees, fines or penalties. Additionally, 91% organizations said a single hour of downtime that takes mission-critical server hardware and applications offline, averages over $300,000 due to lost […]