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Frank De Gilio and Jeff Bisti on Their Terminal Talk Podcast
November 1, 2018
Reg Harbeck: Hi. I'm Reg Harbeck, and today I have the honor of being here with both Jeff Bisti and Frank De Gilio. They are the hosts of the Terminal Talk podcast, which is a favorite mainframe podcast of mine and so I have the opportunity to find out how they ended up doing this. […]
ArticlesThe QDFTSVR Job Description
October 25, 2018
QDFTSVR parameter settings provided by IBM with a description of why these settings are selected for prestart jobs
ArticlesA Very Good Year for IBM i
October 25, 2018
IBM i has been growing for four quarters in a row.
ArticlesManaging Prestart Server Jobs by Remote IP Address
October 3, 2018
There may be times you want to find prestart jobs associated with a remote IP address. In this case, you will want to use one of the various Netstat interfaces
ArticlesProject Plans Require Nurturing Leadership
October 1, 2018
I was recently chatting with a colleague who was complaining about project team members ignoring his directions, neglecting a schedule he’d built before a short vacation and consequently getting an email from his unhappy client about project delays. I asked if he’d held a meeting to discuss assignments and appoint someone in charge. When he […]
ArticlesPOWER9 Hardware Supports On-premises Cloud Deployments
October 1, 2018
Early adopters were quick to whip out a company credit card and deploy an instance of the public cloud—Amazon Web Services, for instance. But as security breaches continue to make headlines, organizations realize that the accessibility of the public cloud was dampened by concerns that sensitive—and often mission-critical—data could fall into the wrong hands. Either […]
Articles5 Modernization Steps to Maximize Value and Reduce Risk
October 1, 2018
Application modernization is a hot topic for IBM i shops and it’s no secret why. Companies need to be nimble and their applications need to adapt to meet the evolving needs of the business. Systems are aging, interfaces and processes are outdated, and data is hard to access. Skills shortages are becoming a bigger issue […]
ArticlesChad Rikansrud on Being an Ethical Mainframe Hacker
October 1, 2018
Reg Harbeck: Hi, I’m Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with Chad Rikansrud who is a mainframe hacker at RSM Partners—ethical mainframe hacker—who has got some really interesting background among other things has the interesting Twitter handle of @Bigendiansmalls. So Chad, maybe if you can start by just telling us, how did you end up […]
ArticlesTop Project Management Trends
September 16, 2018
In the previous two posts, I have established a research-based view of the importance of good project management and the role it plays in successfully completing projects. “Research-based” means it’s not my opinion, but rather what I discovered by working with a large sample of data from other people. In this post, I want to […]
ArticlesWork With Active Prestart Jobs
September 5, 2018
This blog will review features of Work with Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) that make finding prestart jobs easier
ArticlesMaking Informed Technological Decisions
September 1, 2018
In my early system engineering years with IBM, my primary account was a large insurance company in central Wisconsin that was a leading-edge user of CICS [1] and one of the higher volume online systems in the world. Their advanced, heavily-used, real-time and transaction-based business applications stressed IBM’s largest S/370 processors to their limits. Transaction growth […]
ArticlesIBM Z Content Solutions
September 1, 2018
With hundreds of z/OS and related books in the IBM Knowledge Center along with countless other resources scattered throughout the web, finding information about z/OS offerings can be overwhelming. When you do find information, it can be difficult to know where to start, and what steps to take. The resolution to these challenges? IBM Z […]
ArticlesGetting to Know the Open-Source Zowe Project
September 1, 2018
Zowe—the first open-source framework for z/OS—is poised to break new ground for IBM Z clients. Announced on Tuesday, Aug. 14, at SHARE in St. Louis, by executives from IBM, CA Technologies, Rocket Software and the Open Mainframe Project, the open-source project promises to be a game changer. “Open source redefines industries across the board. We’ve […]
ArticlesJustin Bastin on His SHARE Journey and What’s Next for the Mainframe
September 1, 2018
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Justin Bastin whom I've known for quite a long time, basically since he first started coming to SHARE. He's active in SHARE and all kinds of cool stuff and so Justin maybe I can get you to start by just telling us your […]
ArticlesRetired IBMer Carl Parris Studies How Societies Maximize the Use of Their Land
September 1, 2018
Carl Parris—a recently retired IBM Z* performance analyst—began traveling early with his family. “The first significant trip in my life was when my father was doing research for a dissertation, and we ended up living in England for a year. That gave us access to Europe, so we traveled through Europe whenever we had time […]
ArticlesDelivering Real-Time Insight With the IBM z Analytics Portfolio
September 1, 2018
Everyone’s perception of “current” is different. Consider this example: If you came to an intersection, would you look at a picture taken a day ago, or even an hour ago, to determine whether it was safe to cross? Of course not. To do so could put you at great risk. Using old data to make […]
ArticlesAnna McKee Makes History as the First Female Master the Mainframe Winner
September 1, 2018
University of North Texas student Anna McKee grew up in a household fluent in technology. Despite the fact that both of her parents work with mainframes, McKee didn’t consider a career in technology until her second year of junior college. She was struggling to pick a focus of study, considering professions ranging from music to […]
ArticlesConverting Data Into Insight With IBM Z
September 1, 2018
From banking to retail, financial services to healthcare, the world economy runs on the mainframe. Billions of transactions per second are processed around the globe, generating a treasure trove of unique, proprietary data about customers and the businesses that serve them. The essential insight mined from this data using analytics and machine learning can help […]
ArticlesThe Benefits of Analytics and Machine Learning on IBM Z
September 1, 2018
Enterprises have vast amounts of high-value, sensitive data on IBM Z*. With recent advances in machine learning technology, it’s the right time to extract key insights from this data and monetize it. Given its sensitive nature, it only makes sense to leverage that data in place. Enterprises can also minimize costly data movement and maintain […]
ArticlesCreating a Self-Managing Mainframe
September 1, 2018
Hybrid IT environments, along with IT leaders and their teams, are facing more challenges than ever because of digital transformation efforts to add new or improved services for customers. The challenges are coming from all sides, and IT teams are often backed into a corner, left to respond reactively to dynamic changes, customer situations, threats […]
ArticlesFirst Option Improves Hosting Services With Collaboration
September 1, 2018
UP CLOSE Customer: First Option Headquarters: Cave Creek, Arizona Business: IT hosting services Challenge: Growing its hosting business while still focusing on other aspects of the business Solution: Partnering with mindSHIFT, another IT hosting service provider, to develop a lower-cost, more easily managed and geographically dispersed hosting environment Hardware: Several IBM Power Systems servers The […]
ArticlesThe Significance of Technology Change and IT Innovation
August 20, 2018
This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. Technology change, that force that moves technology forward, is one of those very powerful momentums in IT. However, IT innovation is its own specific kind of technology change that nevertheless has a significant effect on […]
ArticlesPrestart Jobs and Server Jobs
August 16, 2018
IBM i expert Dawn May on the user interface for displaying server jobs and how to manage your prestart server jobs
ArticlesPrestart Jobs and Server Jobs
August 16, 2018
How the user interface for displaying server jobs can be useful for managing your prestart server jobs
ArticlesThe Significance of Open Source
August 13, 2018
This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. The evolving development and use of open-source software is one of those very powerful ideas. Let me explain. Big Software I use the phrase “evolving development and use of open software,” but maybe it’s just […]