ESS Mobile App Updates
January 7, 2020
The latest version of the IBM Entitled Systems Support mobile app puts asset management at your fingertips.
ArticlesClassical Computing and Quantum Computing Can Work Together
January 3, 2020
Breathless ‘end of the classical computer’ articles, quantum supremacy and ‘broken security’ hysterics to the contrary, pitting classical versus quantum computing is not the issue. What is at issue is determining how to most effectively exploit each architecture. Quantum computing’s major strength doesn’t lie in simply analyzing Big Data. While the speed of quantum is […]
ArticlesBringing New Talent to the Mainframe Workforce
January 2, 2020
IBM Z Champion Marc I. Smith on how to engage next-generation mainframers
ArticlesGetting Started With REST and SQL
January 2, 2020
Rest, can you ever really get enough of it? Not only is rest great in the overnight hours, but it’s key in today’s world of modern development. For many years, IBM i has included a web services engine, which was originally able to create SOAP-based web services over RPG and COBOL programs and services programs. […]
ArticlesPowerAI Vision Democratizes the Development of Visual AI Models
January 2, 2020
It used to be that only programmers actually programmed—that was their area of expertise. End users simply worked within the parameters set before them. But then something happened that began to alter that relationship. Tools like spreadsheets allowed average employees to essentially do their own programming, building smart columns, rows and cells that could predictably […]
ArticlesMarlaina Chirdon on Assembler, IBM Z User Groups and zNextGen
January 2, 2020
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and I'm here today with my friend Marlaina Chirdon who is somebody I've known for quite a while which considering that she is still a relatively new mainframer but we've worked at the same employer. We've had a shared mentor but before I spend too much time introducing […]
ArticlesWomen in IT Value Community and Mentorship
December 19, 2019
As anyone associated with the industry can tell you, far more men than women have followed career paths in IT—but that trend has been shifting. To amplify the voices of women who are making their own path in IT and innovating on the IBM Z platform, IBM Systems magazine interviewed a group of IT professionals […]
ArticlesIt Adds Up
December 17, 2019
Doing just a little bit on a regular basis can have a lasting impact on your career (and life).
ArticlesTwitter Reloaded: Musings to Close Out 2019
December 16, 2019
IBM i expert Dawn May reflects on the past year.
ArticlesTackling Unique Audit Requirements with RPG
December 16, 2019
IBM i experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner share tips to tackle Data Structures and audit requirements
ArticlesMinimizing Project Plan Delays With Debugging
December 16, 2019
Project planning has been a way of life for me since my career’s early days, learned from an IBM senior systems engineer who was my comrade providing support to a large, leading edge insurance company, driven by their appetite for CICS First Customer Shipment, then Early Support Programs as IBM’s early introduction programs evolved. Project […]
ArticlesNIM Users Must Get Current on AIX
December 10, 2019
A recent change in OS versioning requires NIM servers to run on the latest versions of AIX.
ArticlesMaximum Spooled Files by Job
December 9, 2019
There may be times when a specific job requires more than the default number of spooled files. Here’s how to increase the maximum spooled files on a job.
PodcastsDusty Rivers on IMS, CICS, Db2 and IBM Z
December 5, 2019
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Dusty Rivers, an experienced IBM mainframe expert, an IMS person who has been working all across the mainframe ecosystem especially in areas that has gotten enough attention that he has been able to be an IBM Champion for the past 10 years as […]
ArticlesVirtualizing Storage with LPM via vSCSI
December 3, 2019
Moving to POWER9? Live Partition Mobility (LPM) can be used to virtualize storage on LPARs connected to VIO servers via vSCSI.
ArticlesTake a Sneak Peek at New Hardware
November 26, 2019
The IBM Interactive Product Tour Catalog allows you virtually preview 3D representations of new hardware.
ArticlesA Look at Cloud Automation Manager
November 19, 2019
This short demo video breaks down the process of using Cloud Automation Manager to create templates and deploy virtual machines.
ArticlesThe Benefits of Working Remotely in IT
November 15, 2019
When I was rewriting a student records system for my graduate college, I spent most of time in a tiny room with a keypunch and desk filled with old and new program printouts, plus the punched card versions of each. When I wrote code, it was an instruction per card (or more if putting an […]
ArticlesLittle Things Mean a Lot in RDi 9.6
November 8, 2019
IBM i development experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner review new enhancements to RDi
ArticlesActive_Job_Info() for Prestart Server Jobs
November 5, 2019
This article continues upon the series of blogs Dawn May has written related to prestart jobs, one of which detailed retrieving the current SQL statement for a job using QSYS2.ACTIVE_JOB_INFO()
ArticlesNPIV Client Boot Hanging Fix
November 5, 2019
IBM Support troubleshoots an NPIV client boot hanging with Error Code 554.
ArticlesEnabling Applications to Use Large Memory Pages
November 4, 2019
In the second part of this series on large memory pages, AIX expert Mark Ray walks readers through how to enable applications to use them
ArticlesMichelle Yeager and Hayley Owens on COBOL Programming
November 4, 2019
Reg Harbeck: I'm Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Michelle Yeager and Hayley Owens. They are both new COBOL programmers whom I met at SHARE. So maybe let's start; Michelle if you could begin by telling us how did you end up working on the mainframe and being a COBOL programmer? Michelle Yeager: […]
ArticlesGraphing AIX Performance Data
October 30, 2019
Understand your unique environment to best collect and graph data.
ArticlesdeveloperWorks Connections Pages Are Going Away
October 29, 2019
Big news: IBM is sunsetting its entire developerWorks Connections platform.