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Make Capacity Available With Enterprise Pools for Power E980
June 25, 2019
An announcement for those who are running E980 servers.
ArticlesACS Application Packages and the ODBC Driver for i
June 19, 2019
The ODBC driver for IBM i is now available and you can download it in the same way as the application packages.
ArticlesMigrating the Cluster Repository Disk
June 18, 2019
Rob McNelly highlights a post by Dino Quintero and Shawn Bodily where they explain how to migrate the cluster repository disk on PowerHA SystemMirror.
ArticlesSLAs Simplify Support
June 17, 2019
Service-level agreements (SLAs) were nearly nonexistent when I started in IT. Those of us involved in online systems implementation were too focused on keeping terminal-based applications operational and tolerably responsive to worry about such things; furthermore, no one had heard of them. There wasn’t much pressure for an SLA either, because end users were infatuated […]
ArticlesSimplified IBM i Program Conversion
June 14, 2019
IBM has provided tooling to make it easier to convert your existing programs.
ArticlesCopy a Monitor with Navigator for i
June 7, 2019
IBM i expert Dawn May explains how to copy a monitor with Navigator for i v7.2.
ArticlesDR Solutions and the Need to Keep Pace
June 4, 2019
Chris Gibson recently updated his blog post about using the ghostdev and clouddev flags in the disaster recovery process.
ArticlesKubernetes Management of AIX Containers
June 3, 2019
How to exploit the Kubernetes management platform for modernizing your AIX* application.
ArticlesVarying-Dimension Arrays for RPG
June 1, 2019
The new IBM i 7.4 announcement brought with it varying-dimension arrays, a new data definition keyword and more
Articles10 Things to Love About AIX
June 1, 2019
Rob McNelly lists 10 things he really appreciates—and yes, loves—about AIX.
ArticlesMore PowerAI Resources
May 28, 2019
Rob McNelly lists helpful PowerAI resources.
ArticlesAutomation and AI at Work
May 21, 2019
An entertaining story about a savvy techie who used AI and Instagram to automatically post information and receive free meals.
ArticlesWhat About Application Automation?
May 20, 2019
Applications that we create automate and enhance the way we do things from payroll and inventory to how we communicate and innovate. But how do we automate the applications?
ArticlesApplication Performance and Tuning
May 14, 2019
As the original author of “CICS Performance Bulletin” published by IBM Dallas System Center, and co-author of the subsequent IBM “CICS TS Performance Guide” in conjunction with IBM Hursley CICS TS Development, performance and tuning has been a big part of my job. I’ve performed more CICS performance studies than I can count, and almost […]
ArticlesShould You Consider Becoming a CAAC Member?
May 14, 2019
Mike McArdle, an instructor at Western Technical College in La Crosse, Wisconsin, explains the value of CAAC membership.
ArticlesThe lshwres Command and Hardware Discovery
May 14, 2019
How to use the HMC command line to get information from managed machines.
ArticlesIBM i—For Innovators, by Innovators
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.
ArticlesSetting the Record Straight on Power Systems
May 7, 2019
Rob McNelly dispells some of the common myths about Power Systems vs. x86
ArticlesDb2 Mirror for i Offers Continuous Availability
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 […]
ArticlesCOBOL Turns 60
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 […]
ArticlesDevOps Drives Innovation and Modernization on IBM Z
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 […]
ArticlesBarry Merrill on SAS, MXG and His Button Collection
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 […]
ArticlesCrossing the IBM Z Skills Gap
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 […]
ArticlesIBM Z’s Role in the ‘Multi’ World
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 […]
ArticlesUnlocking New Doors
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. […]