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At 65, COMMON Keeps Growing

Manzoor Siddiqui, COMMON’s executive director, assesses the state of the IBM Power user group ahead of its largest event of the year

z/OS and Friends: Rich Functionality Is What CICS Is All About—Then and Now

Joe Gulla traces the evolution of the Customer Information Control System (CICS), harkening back to its first release and providing a comprehensive accounting of its modern-day application development capabilities

New Mainframe Market Survey Reveals Fresh Focus on Silos, Strategic Goals and Specialization

Results underline modernization appetite to address Topical challenges while leveraging new mainframe capabilities

Announcing Manzan: The Future of IBM i Event Monitoring

The open source project is designed to simplify the process of publishing IBM i system events

Tips for Leveraging Your GenAI Code Assistant

Brenno Oliveira of Kyndryl explains how to craft prompts that will maximize the effectiveness of AI coding sidekicks

Broadcom Introduces Industry’s First Incident Prediction Capability to Stop Living-Off-The-Land Attacks

Leveraging advanced AI, Symantec Endpoint Security can predict cybercriminals’ moves in the attack chain, quickly stop them and return organizations to a state of cyber resilience.

BMC’s New GenAI Innovations Drive Business Value From Data

The solutions and capabilities increase velocity, improve operational resiliency and drive efficiency.

2025 IBM X-Force Threat Index: Large-Scale Credential Theft Escalates, Threat Actors Pivot to Stealthier Tactics

Cybercriminals continued to pivot to stealthier tactics, with lower-profile credential theft spiking, while ransomware attacks on enterprises declined.

How to Make the Most of Your 2025 POWERUp Experience

COMMON’s LeAnn Taylor shares her tips for thriving at the upcoming Power conference, covering networking, education and the importance of enjoying yourself

96% of Enterprises Are Expanding Use of AI Agents, According to Latest Data From Cloudera

The survey polled nearly 1,500 enterprise IT leaders across 14 countries to understand their adoption patterns, use cases and sentiments around AI agents.

With z17’s New Chips, AI Is No Longer an Add-on

Mukesh Khare, GM of IBM Semiconductors, provides a closer look at IBM’s AI efforts, highlighted by the introduction of the z17

Mainframe Engineering: The Heavy Weight of Debugging

The complexities and nuances of finding and fixing mainframe code errors

Data Management Trends for 2025 (That Aren’t Cloud or AI)

While cloud and AI get much of the attention, there are other ongoing advancements that database administrators should be aware of

Announcing IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 TR6

IBM i CTO Steve Will covers enhancements for security, database, system administration, application development and HA/DR

IBM Unleashes the z17 

The public got its first look at the z17 in April, when it was introduced with a heavy focus on the new hardware’s AI capabilities.

Simplify Mainframe Access and Security with Virtel Web Suite

Transform your IBM Z applications with Virtel Web Suite—secure, efficient, browser-based access.

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z/OS and Friends: CICS Changing With the Times While Serving Longstanding Applications

Joe Gulla explains how the Customer Information Control System (CICS) relates to the programmer experience, and how it has evolved to handle growing workloads while embracing web services and new languages like Java

IBM Accelerates Momentum in the ‘as a Service’ Space With Growing Portfolio of Tools Simplifying Infrastructure Management

IBM announces the addition of IBM Storage Ceph as a Service to its emerging portfolio of flexible “as a service” solutions for on-premises infrastructure.

Tokyo Electron and IBM Renew Collaboration for Advanced Semiconductor Technology

The new five-year agreement will focus on the continued advancement of technology for next-generation semiconductor nodes and architectures to power the age of generative AI.

AI for Discovery: Uncovering Insights for System Optimization

Pat Stanard, chief mainframe architect for Kyndryl U.S., explains how AI can be used to identify dependencies, analyze code, address security threats and more

AI Governance Is Treated as Exclusive. It Shouldn’t Be.

If businesses truly want their AI systems to be trustworthy, they need a wide range of stakeholders at the table and engaging with the tech, writes Heather Gentile, director of product for IBM watsonx.governance Risk and Compliance

McNelly: Change May Be Inevitable, but Some Design Changes Are Ill-Advised

Rob McNelly shares his thoughts on user experiences, both in tech and out in the world

Safeguarding IBM i Data With Maxava Security

The new solution moves away from the usual reactive measures found in many IBM i security solutions.

The Many Meanings of Modernization, With IBM’s Amy Anderson

Modernization is a continuous process that goes beyond code re-writes, IBM’s Amy Anderson tells Charlie Guarino on TechTalk SMB

Precisely Acquires DTS Software, Adding Mainframe Storage Optimization Software to Data Integrity Portfolio

This acquisition underscores Precisely’s commitment to delivering innovative, end-to-end solutions for optimizing the integrity and value of enterprise data