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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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An Introduction to Problem Analysis

Rob McNelly

April 9, 2019

The IBM Knowledge Center has a number of documents on problem analysis for AIX, Linux and more.

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The Journey From Idea to Practice in IT Can Be Short

Joseph Gulla

April 8, 2019

This is the first post in a series on how important ideas end up becoming common practice in IT.

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Choosing the Proper Level for Managing VIOS with NIM

Rob McNelly

April 2, 2019

This blog contains several links to helpful documents related to managing VIOS with NIM.

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How to Send Text Messages From IBM i

Mike Larsen

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

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Use DATA-INTO for Processing Data With RPG

Jon Paris

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?

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Let the End User Be Your Guide

Jim Schesvold

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 […]

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Streamline Regulatory Compliance With a Hybrid Cloud

Kristin Lewotsky

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 […]

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Data Cleansing is Critical to Business Success

Phillip Ramati

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 […]

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Martin Packer on His Mainframe Performance Journey

Reg Harbeck

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 […]

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Conferences, Community and More Ahead for IBM i in 2019

Steve Will

March 30, 2019

A look at conferences and user group events coming up in 2019, and why attending these events is beneficial.

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Comments on the Changing UNIX Landscape

Rob McNelly

March 26, 2019

Rob McNelly blogs about his recent interview with Network World about the future of AIX and UNIX.

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REST, SOAP, Microservices, Monitoring and Management

Joseph Gulla

March 25, 2019

There are different aspects of the “outside in” approach, specifically Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

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A Look at AIX and Cloud

Rob McNelly

March 19, 2019

Rob McNelly blogs about Petra Bührer’s Power Systems Virtual User Group presentation, “Enterprise Cloud Bundle and AIX Enterprise Edition”

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