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New IBM z14 Capabilities Make it Easy to Get Started in the Cloud

Gene Rebeck

November 1, 2017

July’s IBM z14* announcement features technology to make cloud computing easier for IBM Z* organizations. With a strong focus on pervasive encryption—where organizations can encrypt data associated with an entire application, cloud service or database in flight or at rest (ibm.co/2fzkphp)—encrypted APIs, a new pricing model, blockchain services and more, clients can feel safer about […]

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IBM Z Offerings Help Clients Take Advantage of the Cloud

Jim Utsler

November 1, 2017

The cloud was once considered simply part of the computing stack—an extension of the data center that hosted non-critical applications and data sets seemingly in the air. Now for many organizations, however, it’s become an essential part of operations, allowing them to more quickly deploy new technologies and nimbly respond to changing market forces. As […]

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Steven Morales

November 1, 2017

  Name: Steven Morales Title: RPGLE programmer Company Name: P.C. Richard and Son Company’s Function: Retail HQ: Farmingdale, New York Years in IT: 21 The biggest challenge our data center is facing today is modernization without losing legacy systems that have proven reliability. My favorite activity outside of work is kayaking. The next big thing […]

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Eco-Friendly IT Infrastructure

November 1, 2017

We live and work in a changing world—one of technological marvels that just a few short years ago would have seemed akin to magic and one whose climate is being vastly altered by our use and abuse of the Earth’s resources. A heating planet has been a call to arms for those of us who […]

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Deep Thinking in IBM Rochester With Watson Analytics

Steve Will

Charlie Guarino

October 27, 2017

Charles Guarino reflects on the IBM i Driveway to Watson event.

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How to Create an IT Offering

Joseph Gulla

October 23, 2017

This is the fourth post in a series about things they never taught me in school. Attending classes, I never learned how to create an IT offering. In fact, I never heard of an IT offering until I was 20 years into my IT career. At that time, elements like professional or support services were […]

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The Art and Science of Performance: Firmware, History and More

Mark J. Ray

October 18, 2017

Performance tuning is the greatest art in computer management. How to get peak performance out of your existing AIX systems. Part 1 of 4.

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How to Automate an Entire Software System

Joseph Gulla

October 16, 2017

I studied to be a computer application developer. My interests were halfway between business and computers, so developing applications were a pretty good fit. Besides, I didn’t know anything about the system side of things—OSes, middleware software, job entry subsystems and system software installation—basically the tasks and concerns of the system programmers. After five years […]

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Jim Michael Embraces Opportunities Throughout Career

October 16, 2017

Reg Harbeck: Hello. I'm here today, this is Reg Harbeck, with Jim Michael. I like to call him the best president SHARE never had because he was with SHARE as their vice-president and everybody expected to become the SHARE president, but then he had a change at his employer that meant that he was no […]

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Other Things They Didn’t Teach Me in School: Pseudo-Conversational Programming

Joseph Gulla

October 9, 2017

I spent three months studying COBOL, wrote eight challenging batch programs, and then took my first assignment, which involved writing online transactions that I learned nothing about before taking the assignment. Since I had no training in real-time programming (i.e., online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, I needed some tutoring by the analyst assigned to be […]

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IBM Researchers Hope to Use Macroscopes to Answer Big Questions About the World

Jim Utsler

October 9, 2017

Microscopes have advanced so far since their inception, they may soon be able to see the small scale in almost infinite detail. But the large scale? It seems much easier to visualize—look up at the sky—but when big, complex data gets thrown into the mix, that may not be the case. The sky is blue, […]

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Manfred Sielhorst

Claire O’Leary

October 9, 2017

Name: Manfred Sielhorst Title: CEO Company Name: Sielhorst iT Beratung Company’s Function: Consulting on technology integration HQ: Darmstadt, Germany Years in IT: 28 If I weren’t in IT, I would not work. The trend affecting my work is math, real programming languages and standards such as Algol, Lisp, C, RPG, Java*, SQL, XML and LaTeX. […]

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The Future of IT

October 5, 2017

My grandmother never learned to drive. She was born around the time Henry Ford invented the production line and began rolling out Model Ts in vast numbers. Those cars were shipped to every corner of the world and quite a few made it to our shores here in New Zealand. Ours were painted black, too. […]

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Announcing IBM i 7.3 TR3 and IBM i 7.2 TR7

Steve Will

October 3, 2017

IBM announces the latest Technology Refreshes for our two most current releases: IBM i 7.3 TR3 and IBM i 7.2 TR7.

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Things They Didn’t Teach Me in School: Polyglot

Joseph Gulla

October 2, 2017

Over the years, you’ve probably spent a lot of time reading and studying computer topics. I have attended many classes and even taught a few and never came across the topics of polyglot persistence and programming. If somebody taught me about polyglot anything, I am sure that I would have remembered it. These are topics, […]

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Use z/OS Resources and Tools for Data Protection

Patrick Fitzsimmons

October 2, 2017

The IBM z/OS* platform, with its unmatched reliability, availability and serviceability, outstanding I/O bandwidth and secure environment, provides an excellent platform for data protection. This is especially true if that client data already is on the mainframe, as the features of this hardware and software platform promote reliable and scalable data protection. If your organization […]

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Rocket President Encourages Employee Collaboration With House Band

Valerie Dennis Craven

October 1, 2017

Andy Youniss has been drawn to music for as long as he can remember. Both his parents played guitar, and the president and CEO of Rocket Software would ask them to teach it to him. When he was in second grade, his dad taught him three chords, and he’s been playing the instrument since. Two […]

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Future of Testing

Joseph Gulla

September 25, 2017

This is the last post in this series on enterprise testing. The focus has been on both system and application programmers in an enterprise systems setting. The first post described enterprise testing and explained the many challenges that programmers experienced 40 years ago in deploying defect free software. The next two posts discussed system programmers […]

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Promoting IBM i—TCO, TCA, Reliability and Strategy

Steve Will

September 20, 2017

How to promote the value of IBM i through TCO, TCA, reliability and strategy.

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Evil Twins: 10 Network Tunables Every Admin Must Understand

Mark J. Ray

September 20, 2017

Setting network tunables incorrectly on AIX systems is a very common problem. Nearly every tunable, be it CPU, memory, networking or storage, affects others to some degree.

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Focus on Application Testing

Joseph Gulla

September 18, 2017

This is the third post in this series on system and application testing on enterprise systems. In this post, I discuss the daunting job of being a mainframe application programmer and how he or she goes about testing. The testing scope can cover everything from deployment of a new release of ISV software to a […]

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Troy Crutcher Helps the Next Generation Master the Mainframe

Reg Harbeck

September 18, 2017

Reg Harbeck talks with Troy Crutcher about the next generation of mainframers, the Master the Mainframe program and other opportunities available for learning and playing on the platform. Listen to the interview via the orange play button or read the transcript below. Reg Harbeck: Hello, this is Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with Troy […]

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IBM Research Is Working to Improve Mental Health Diagnoses

Jim Utsler

September 18, 2017

Imagine being able to predict the onset of a mental health condition before it hits. Or receive a diagnosis at home instead of a psychiatrist’s office. Or being able to adjust your medications based on patterns in your speech when you casually talk with family and friends. Within the next five years, you may not […]

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Chamara Withanachchi

Claire O’Leary

September 18, 2017

  Name: Chamara Withanachchi Title: Head of IT Company Name: Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance PLC Company’s Function: Banking and finance HQ: Colombo, Sri Lanka Years in IT: 16 The biggest challenge our data center is facing today is never-ending changes and upgrades in systems. The next big thing for our business will […]

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An RPGers First Steps with JSON: Consuming JSON data with YAJL

Jon Paris

September 12, 2017

How to use the YAJL library to consume a JSON document and extract the data for use by an RPG program. Part 2 of 2.

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