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Expanding Cloud Capabilities
November 2, 2020
As organizations look for new ways to engage clients with new experiences and digital services outside of their traditional offerings, many begin to realize that options are limited by their cloud infrastructure. Without the agility to quickly deploy new applications, organizations lose their competitive edge and even their clients. Instead of losing market share, organizations […]
ArticlesIBM Analytics Products Have a Strong Focus
October 28, 2020
There’s a lot to the analytics software topic, so it helps to understand it using tools like IBM’s analytics products model
ArticlesWhen Technology Sneaks Up on You
October 27, 2020
Rob McNelly gets a new laptop and relearns an important lesson: While you’d expect technology to progress, it’s still worth noticing.
ArticlesRegister for the ‘Making Our Strong Community, Stronger’ Webinar
October 26, 2020
On Nov. 12, 2020, speakers from Broadcom, IBM, Rocket Software and VirtualZ Computing will come together for an online event focusing on the importance of diversity, inclusion and equity. The webinar, “Making Our Strong Community, Stronger” will be moderated by Dr. Gloria Chance, the CEO of the Mousai Group. Featured mainframe executives include Jeanne Glass […]
ArticlesOpen Mainframe Summit Celebrates Successful First Annual Event
October 26, 2020
On Sept. 16 and 17, 2020, the Open Mainframe Project held the first inaugural Open Mainframe Summit, which brought together several members of the IBM Z® community, including students, educators and industry professionals, to share their insights on the mainframe. The virtual event gave mainframers a chance to connect online to share best practices, discuss […]
ArticlesWith PM for Power Discontinued, What are Your Options for Collecting Performance Data?
October 20, 2020
IBM has discontinued the Performance Management for Power Systems™ service.
ArticlesIs Your Data Ready for AI?
October 20, 2020
Analytics products and services can discover meaningful patterns in data that reveal insights that organizations can interpret and communicate to others.
ArticlesAIX 2020 Lessons Learned
October 15, 2020
Rob McNelly explores expert advice for AIX maintenance, from rootvg cloning to disk scrubbing.
ArticlesNavigator for i Graph History: Enable Historical Data Collection
October 15, 2020
IBM i expert Dawn May continues her series about Navigator for i by discussing historical data.
ArticlesNavigator for i Graph History: Review Historical Data
October 15, 2020
IBM i expert Dawn May continues her series about Navigator for i by discussing historical data
ArticlesDevOps Agile Tools and Practices
October 13, 2020
In his latest “IT Trendz” post, Joseph Gulla explores DevOps, an increasingly common approach to agile software development
ArticlesThe Value of Emergency Planning, Wherever You Are
October 13, 2020
Rob McNelly reflects on how an event this summer reminded him to always be prepared.
ArticlesAnnouncement Time: IBM i 7.4 TR3 and 7.3 TR9
October 6, 2020
Steve Will blogs about the latest IBM i TR.
ArticlesPower Systems Tricks and Tips from Gareth Coates
October 6, 2020
IBMer Gareth Coates maintains a blog covering topics from NIC speed in AIX to processor compatibility modes on POWER9, scripts like sumcol, duvg and dfvg and much more.
ArticlesJanet Sun on Her 25 Years of SHARE
October 1, 2020
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with my friend, Janet Sun. Janet is, in my opinion, an amazing person. She has been a mainframe volunteer at SHARE, a volunteer, in fact, a past SHARE president. She has been involved in various aspects of the mainframe her whole career and she’s […]
ArticlesCloud Integration Middleware Is Growing
September 30, 2020
In his latest “IT Trendz” post, Joseph Gulla explores cloud integration with IBM products.
ArticlesA New Resource for Linux on Power Developers
September 29, 2020
For a new resource guide, check out the logically and literally named Linux on Power Developer Portal.
ArticlesIBM Introduces AI Platform to Accelerate Vaccine Design and Testing
September 24, 2020
Though the impact of COVID-19 has been arduous for many industries, there have been a few silver linings along the way. One is that, due to the urgent need to produce a vaccine for the virus, some companies are taking another look at the way that we research, test and produce vaccines. Specifically, IBM announced […]
ArticlesHanging Commands and Tasks on the HMC
September 22, 2020
Rob McNelly reveals the commonality that some problematic tasks share.
ArticlesA NextGen Mainframer Succession Story
September 21, 2020
Dr. Cameron Seay (currently an adjunct professor at East Carolina University; IBM Champion for System Z; and Chair, Open Mainframe Project COBOL Working Group) is one of my personal heroes. When we first met, we had each already begun our journeys of encouraging the development of a new generation of mainframers. My journey began in […]
ArticlesVirtual POWERUp 2020
September 17, 2020
The annual COMMON conference, POWERUp2020 is live this week as a virtual event. It’s sad that COMMON’s 60th anniversary cannot be celebrated in person, but the virtual conference is still a great opportunity for the best IBM i education in the industry. If you’re attending this event, you can network with speakers, partners, and other […]
ArticlesFlashback in Amber and Green
September 15, 2020
Rob McNelly dips into 80s nostalgia and discovers how amazing it is to have a terminal and a PC on one desk.
ArticlesAttend a Virtual Community Day With IBM Z
September 14, 2020
On September 15, IBM will host a high-end computing virtual conference called IBM Z Day, which demonstrates the possibilities and potential of Z technology. Students and up-and-comers in the tech industry will learn why they should embrace the platform. From the extremely high demand for developers with IBM Z skills and developers to the high […]
ArticlesHTTP Server Statistics
September 9, 2020
Dawn May writes about four ways to access information about web performance.
ArticlesDebugging With RDi and Service Entry Points
September 8, 2020
IBM i experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner explain debugging procedures for Rational Developer for i