IBM CA/DR Solutions on Z Combat System Availability Threats
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 […]
ArticlesStaying Current Is Crucial for IBM Z
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 […]
ArticlesZowe Launches IBM Z Toward Modern Computing
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 […]
ArticlesChristopher Radcliffe Embarks on an IBM Z Journey
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 […]
ArticlesA Closer Look at the 2018 Master the Mainframe Winners
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 […]
ArticlesText from AIX
April 30, 2019
Rob McNelly explains how to send texts from AIX.
Articles3 Points to Consider When Modernizing IBM Z
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 […]
ArticlesIBM i 7.4
April 24, 2019
Learn which enhancements come with IBM i 7.4 and Db2 Mirror for i.
ArticlesUpdating Old Firmware with the OpenBMC Tool
April 23, 2019
Learn how to update old firmware with OpenBMC, along with the tool’s basic commands and functionality.
ArticlesAnnouncing IBM i 7.4 and Db2 Mirror for i
April 23, 2019
IBM has announced IBM i 7.4, and a new licensed program product called IBM Db2 Mirror for i.
ArticlesMachine Learning on AIX
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.
ArticlesPrestart Server Jobs and Exit Programs
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
ArticlesAn Introduction to Problem Analysis
April 9, 2019
The IBM Knowledge Center has a number of documents on problem analysis for AIX, Linux and more.
ArticlesThe Journey From Idea to Practice in IT Can Be Short
April 8, 2019
This is the first post in a series on how important ideas end up becoming common practice in IT.
ArticlesChoosing the Proper Level for Managing VIOS with NIM
April 2, 2019
This blog contains several links to helpful documents related to managing VIOS with NIM.
ArticlesHow to Send Text Messages From IBM i
April 1, 2019
Communication is often done via email, but a text message can do the trick, too. In fact, you probably already have the tools you need to send a text message installed on your IBM i
ArticlesUse DATA-INTO for Processing Data With RPG
April 1, 2019
XML-INTO helped me with processing XML data, but now I’m being asked to process JSON, CSVs and other types of data. Can RPG help me to do this?
ArticlesLet the End User Be Your Guide
April 1, 2019
Although my career has been primarily in OSes, transaction processing, data management/database and network implementation—along with consulting later on—I’ve also participated in application development projects. In my early years, I and an IBM consulting system engineer designed and developed a field developed program called Trend Analysis for CICS/VS, one of the first graphic analysis tools […]
ArticlesStreamline Regulatory Compliance With a Hybrid Cloud
April 1, 2019
In today’s business climate, just delivering goods and services to customers is no longer enough. Amid an ongoing stream of security breaches, countries, regions and industries around the globe have established regulations governing data protection—data privacy and data security. As a result, enterprises need to demonstrate and maintain compliance around egulations such as the European […]
ArticlesData Cleansing is Critical to Business Success
April 1, 2019
Regardless of their size, businesses are increasingly reliant on data analytics to maximize profit and efficiency. But with so much data now available through all sorts of technical applications, how does a business know which numbers to trust? And what happens if a number is off by a decimal point, or a piece of information […]
ArticlesMartin Packer on His Mainframe Performance Journey
April 1, 2019
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and I’m here today with Martin Packer who is a mainframer based in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and among many other things works on performance, works with Marna Walle in a mainframe performance podcast and has been quite active in mainframe in a lot of different ways. Well […]
ArticlesConferences, Community and More Ahead for IBM i in 2019
March 30, 2019
A look at conferences and user group events coming up in 2019, and why attending these events is beneficial.
ArticlesComments on the Changing UNIX Landscape
March 26, 2019
Rob McNelly blogs about his recent interview with Network World about the future of AIX and UNIX.
ArticlesREST, SOAP, Microservices, Monitoring and Management
March 25, 2019
There are different aspects of the “outside in” approach, specifically Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
ArticlesA Look at AIX and Cloud
March 19, 2019
Rob McNelly blogs about Petra Bührer’s Power Systems Virtual User Group presentation, “Enterprise Cloud Bundle and AIX Enterprise Edition”