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The lshwres Command and Hardware Discovery

Rob McNelly

May 14, 2019

How to use the HMC command line to get information from managed machines.

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IBM i—For Innovators, by Innovators

Steve Will

May 9, 2019

The IBM i team in IBM is proud of our platform, and we’re excited to be innovators in the IT industry.

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Setting the Record Straight on Power Systems

Rob McNelly

May 7, 2019

Rob McNelly dispells some of the common myths about Power Systems vs. x86

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Db2 Mirror for i Offers Continuous Availability

Scott Forstie

May 1, 2019

Q: What is Db2 Mirror? We recently announced the new IBM i operating system (OS) level, known as IBM i 7.4. Each OS level contains new and enhanced features and functions. We have a history of also delivering a major enhancement to the database (Db2* for i) when we have a new release. For IBM […]

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COBOL Turns 60

Reg Harbeck

May 1, 2019

On April 8, 1959, a team led by Grace Hopper met for the first time to begin developing the specifications for the COBOL programming language. A day short of five years later, on April 7, 1964, the computer platform that would come to be most closely associated with this great programming language was announced: the […]

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DevOps Drives Innovation and Modernization on IBM Z

Sol Lederman

May 1, 2019

IBM is paving the way for clients to drive innovation and modernization through DevOps tools, processes, and promoting new ways of thinking. A number of questions face us on this path: How can legacy applications running on the IBM Z platform fit into the DevOps way of thinking Are the tools and processes to create […]

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Barry Merrill on SAS, MXG and His Button Collection

Reg Harbeck

May 1, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi. This is Reg Harbeck and I’m here with Barry Merrill who is somebody who has worked with all kinds of interesting data on the mainframe. Barry, maybe you could start by telling us, how did you end up on the mainframe? Barry Merrill: Well what happened was, my brief career started actually […]

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Crossing the IBM Z Skills Gap

Adam Oxford

May 1, 2019

Hundreds of people from more than 35 cities in a dozen countries around the world came together in the biggest annual celebration of coding for IBM’s mainframe platform—Legends of Z. The event, held the week of Oct. 5, drew participants from Kathmandu, Nepal, to Sacramento, California, and challenged young developers to be creative as they […]

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IBM Z’s Role in the ‘Multi’ World

Shirley S. Savage

May 1, 2019

Today’s IT environment is energized by choice, collaboration, compute and cloud. IT is now all about multiples—multiplatform, multicloud and multivendor. Open source has broadened the number of contributors to source code and applications. Organizations are making strategic decisions about IT that involve the day-to-day handling of transactions as well as capitalizing on the environment of […]

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Unlocking New Doors

Holly Eamon

May 1, 2019

Three years after its launch, the Open Mainframe Project has achieved success by: Helping increase collaboration throughout the mainframe community Proving the platform’s significance Attracting future mainframers to IBM Z The most notable announcement made by the Open Mainframe Project so far at SHARE in August 2018: Zowe, the first open-source project based on z/OS. […]

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Tom Harper on Why Mainframe Careers Are Dynamic

Reg Harbeck

May 1, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi. I'm Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Tom Harper who is somebody I consider to be mainframe royalty because he and his family have just had such an amazing deep long involvement with mainframe. His daughter Kristine is one of the cofounders of zNextGen and she is also married to the […]

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Power Through Diversity

Keelia Estrada Moeller

May 1, 2019

Addressing diversity on the mainframe and increasing the platform’s relevance is top of mind for many organizations, and VirtualZ Computing is no exception. VirtualZ is the first Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)-certified mainframe ISV. Jeanne Glass founded the company with the help of several co-founders, including Lisa Wood. Both Glass and Wood are dedicated […]

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MQ for z/OS or z/OS Connect EE?

Matt Leming

May 1, 2019

When should I use MQ for z/OS or z/OS Connect EE to interact with my mainframe assets? For the last 25 years, MQ for z/OS* has been the communication mechanism of choice for clients who want to reliably and securely interact with their mainframe applications. More recently, z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE) was introduced to […]

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IBM CA/DR Solutions on Z Combat System Availability Threats

Sol Lederman

May 1, 2019

For a growing number of businesses, five nines is not enough availability. Operational and regulatory requirements are forcing a shift from high availability (HA) to continuous availability (CA). Cyberthreats add to the pressures to protect and quickly restore critical data. In order to maintain operations in the face of multiple challenges, it’s imperative that we […]

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Staying Current Is Crucial for IBM Z

Evelyn Hoover

May 1, 2019

To craft effective marketing campaigns requires an understanding of the technology. Taking the time to really dive in and gain an understanding is one piece of advice Priya Doty, vice president, Product Marketing, IBM Z* and LinuxONE*, offers young people interested in pursuing careers on the platform. It’s advice she also gained from working with […]

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Zowe Launches IBM Z Toward Modern Computing

Andy Youniss

May 1, 2019

As data growth continues on an exponential curve, our ability to process it efficiently takes on outsized importance. Mainframes—the true workhorses of the computing world—can be worth their weight in gold to companies and engineers pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning or doing heavy data analysis. Most Fortune 500 companies use […]

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Christopher Radcliffe Embarks on an IBM Z Journey

Keelia Estrada Moeller

May 1, 2019

A freshman at Villanova University with an interest in the mainframe and coding, Christopher Radcliffe has over seven years of coding experience along with several years of experience in robotics. His mainframe interests just recently emerged. As someone who thrives on puzzles and challenges, Radcliffe has always known he’s wanted to pursue a career involving […]

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A Closer Look at the 2018 Master the Mainframe Winners

Adam Oxford

May 1, 2019

For a decade and a half, students from around the world have been taking part in IBM’s annual Master the Mainframe competition. Designed as an introduction to the world of z/OS programming, the contest requires no prior knowledge or skills, and leads participants from their first taste of the UI and the concepts that underpin […]

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Text from AIX

Rob McNelly

April 30, 2019

Rob McNelly explains how to send texts from AIX.

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3 Points to Consider When Modernizing IBM Z

John Shuman

April 25, 2019

IT executives are increasingly under pressure to manage and create disruption. Application development is proceeding at a fantastic rate and users are clamoring for broad new capabilities. Major databases for large corporations end up in the back end on secure, high-speed IBM Z* servers. But many of them are running applications developed decades ago. Enter […]

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IBM i 7.4

Dawn May

April 24, 2019

Learn which enhancements come with IBM i 7.4 and Db2 Mirror for i.

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Updating Old Firmware with the OpenBMC Tool

Rob McNelly

April 23, 2019

Learn how to update old firmware with OpenBMC, along with the tool’s basic commands and functionality.

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Announcing IBM i 7.4 and Db2 Mirror for i

Steve Will

April 23, 2019

IBM has announced IBM i 7.4, and a new licensed program product called IBM Db2 Mirror for i.

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Machine Learning on AIX

Rob McNelly

April 16, 2019

If you believe that machine learning is strictly for Linux, check out this IBM tutorial on installing and configuring Python machine learning packages on AIX.

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Prestart Server Jobs and Exit Programs

Dawn May

April 10, 2019

Securing IBM i is essential and it’s important to understand how to control access to your system with prestart server jobs

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