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Retired IBMer Josh Knight Is Captivated by Astronomy

Keelia Estrada Moeller

March 1, 2019

Science has always been important in Josh Knight’s family. His father taught him science in eighth grade, his aunt taught him biology in ninth grade and his mother taught him chemistry in 10th grade. Knight grew up on a farm in northern Missouri, where he observed the constellations often with his father. Knight’s family background […]

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Compliance Requires Layered Security

Kristin Lewotsky

March 1, 2019

Businesses need to worry about more than just developing products and services for their customers. They need to deliver those products and services while complying with a plethora of standards and regulations governing how data can be collected, processed, stored and transferred. These standards range from highly specific documents covering niche markets like healthcare, to […]

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IBM Infrastructure’s Role in Cloud, AI and Security

Evelyn Hoover

March 1, 2019

Cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and security all have underpinnings in infrastructure—the servers, storage and software that power an organization. A purpose-built architecture is critical to achieving the performance needed for current and future business requirements. “Technology alone can’t transform a company, but it’s a very essential ingredient in business transformation,” says Tom Rosamilia, senior vice […]

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IBM’s Enhanced Cloud Strategy

Sol Lederman

March 1, 2019

IBM Cloud Private for IBM Z and LinuxONE extends IBM Cloud Private capabilities by bringing powerful cloud tools to the platform.

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Hyper Protect Services Increase Cloud Security

Keelia Estrada Moeller

March 1, 2019

With cloud adoption continuously accelerating, clients are becoming increasingly concerned about keeping sensitive data and workloads secure in the public cloud. This is especially relevant for clients in regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. Data protection in the cloud involves encrypting both data at rest and in flight. Providers with sensitive or confidential […]

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The Competitive Edge of POWER9 for Cloud and AI

Jim Utsler

March 1, 2019

Using a system built by a single vendor from the ground up has its benefits. For example, both the hardware and software have been optimized to essentially function as a single entity, removing the complexity involved in multivendor scenarios. Such is the case with IBM POWER9* servers, which make a compelling argument for upgrading from […]

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The Mysterious QP0ZSPWP Jobs

Dawn May

February 15, 2019

QP0ZSPWP jobs are created by spawn() and fork() functions. But what do they do?

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QSQSRVR Job Considerations

Dawn May

February 10, 2019

The QSQSRVR prestart server jobs run in the QSYSWRK subsystem by default, but you can configure the subsystem for these jobs

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Client Special Registers Are Special

Dawn May

February 2, 2019

Client special registers are very useful for understanding who requested work for database server jobs (QZDASOINIT, QSQSRVR, and QRWTSRVR)

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The Case for a Database Engineer

Scott Forstie

February 1, 2019

  Q: What’s a database engineer and why do I need one? Part of my job encompasses helping clients understand how to improve their IBM i ROI. Most clients can take simple and inexpensive steps—and one of those is hiring a database engineer (DBE). The DBE role has existed for about a decade. This is […]

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Why RPG Developers are Adopting RDi

Susan Gantner

February 1, 2019

In more and more shops, Rational Developer for IBM i (RDi) is rapidly taking over as the development platform of choice for RPGers

Podcasts

Sue Romano Discusses SQL Development

Paul Tuohy

February 1, 2019

Paul Tuohy: Hi everybody and welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. I'm delighted to have with me today someone that I've been trying to grab an interview for quite a while, Sue Romano. Hello, Sue. Sue Romano: Hi. Paul: So Sue is one of the, for anybody who hasn't come across Sue's name before, is―well […]

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Time to Look at System Maintenance and Replacing Equipment

Jaqui Lynch

February 1, 2019

Once a year, it’s important to review the hardware that’s installed—and also the levels of the software that’s installed on those servers. It’s important to stay as current as possible to ensure you have the best security and performance. It’s also critical to be on hardware and software that is still in service. This means […]

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Martha McConaghy on SHARE and Women in Technology

Reg Harbeck

February 1, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and I'm here today with Martha McConaghy who is a vice president at SHARE and has been a very active mainframer for quite some time and is involved in some really new exciting initiatives as well. Martha, welcome. Maybe if you can tell us, how did you end […]

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IBM Infrastructure Plays a Critical Role in Cloud, AI and Security

Evelyn Hoover

February 1, 2019

Cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and security all have underpinnings in infrastructure—the servers, storage and software that power an organization. A purpose-built architecture is critical to achieving the performance needed for current and future business requirements. “Technology alone can’t transform a company, but it’s a very essential ingredient in business transformation,” says Tom Rosamilia, senior vice […]

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Retrieving the Current SQL Statement for a Job

Dawn May

January 17, 2019

IBM i makes it relatively easy to identify and review jobs that may be using a lot of CPU or driving a lot of I/O

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Prestart Jobs and Connection Pooling

Dawn May

January 5, 2019

Connection pooling is most often used for database connections to the QZDASOINIT or QZDASSINIT (secure server) jobs. It can also be used for other prestart server jobs

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Prestart Job Messages

Dawn May

January 4, 2019

This article reviews the messages sent by various types of prestart jobs and provide examples of how to gather useful information from these messages

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10 Amazing Things that Happened in 2018

Jesse Gorzinski

January 4, 2019

In 2018, Jesse Gorzinski predicted that it would be a breakthrough year for open source on IBM i, and his prediction held true.

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Stress Tests Validate Systems and Strain Analysts

Jim Schesvold

January 1, 2019

In conjunction with a client insurance company, I have the dubious distinction and privilege of being an early pioneer in the discipline of stress testing computer systems. Thanks to the wise experience of an IBM Consulting Systems Engineer named Don Lund who took me under his wing and passed his wisdom to me—and mostly kept […]

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DevOps Tools for z/OS

Jerry Edgington

January 1, 2019

Can DevOps tools work for z/OS? Yes, and there are two current methodologies which can enable using tools like Eclipse, Jenkins, GIT and many others. One methodology, which most of the mainframe community has likely heard about, is Zowe. Zowe is the first open-source framework for z/OS and was announced at SHARE in St. Louis. […]

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Music, Meaning and the Mainframe

Keelia Estrada Moeller

January 1, 2019

Since watching the Beatles debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Jeffrey Frey has been captivated by music. He paid his way through college as a drummer in various bands, where his musical interests expanded even further. “My interest in music was always expanding, not just in terms of playing the music and the artistry itself, […]

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DevSecOps Matters for the Mainframe

Kristin Lewotsky

January 1, 2019

Today’s customers want new services and they want them now. To remain competitive and keep up with customer needs, organizations are seeking ways to innovate rapidly around some of their most valuable assets—customer data and enterprise data. At one time, the mainframe was viewed as an isolated system. Data was often moved to a different […]

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Opening up the Mainframe

Keelia Estrada Moeller

January 1, 2019

Zowe, a new open-source framework, enables development and operations teams to securely manage, control, script and develop on the mainframe like any other cloud platform. The project was first announced Aug. 14 during SHARE in St. Louis by executives from IBM, CA Technologies, Rocket Software and the Open Mainframe Project. As the first open-source project […]

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Bringing Security to the Cloud

Jim Utsler

January 1, 2019

Security, security, security. It’s been drummed into our heads a thousand times over. Not that it shouldn’t be. One breach can put a company out of business, whether it’s due to regulatory fines or the loss of customer confidence. This is especially true with the increasing adoption of cloud computing. And internal and external security […]

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