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Delivering Real-Time Insight With the IBM z Analytics Portfolio
September 1, 2018
Everyone’s perception of “current” is different. Consider this example: If you came to an intersection, would you look at a picture taken a day ago, or even an hour ago, to determine whether it was safe to cross? Of course not. To do so could put you at great risk. Using old data to make […]
ArticlesAnna McKee Makes History as the First Female Master the Mainframe Winner
September 1, 2018
University of North Texas student Anna McKee grew up in a household fluent in technology. Despite the fact that both of her parents work with mainframes, McKee didn’t consider a career in technology until her second year of junior college. She was struggling to pick a focus of study, considering professions ranging from music to […]
ArticlesConverting Data Into Insight With IBM Z
September 1, 2018
From banking to retail, financial services to healthcare, the world economy runs on the mainframe. Billions of transactions per second are processed around the globe, generating a treasure trove of unique, proprietary data about customers and the businesses that serve them. The essential insight mined from this data using analytics and machine learning can help […]
ArticlesThe Benefits of Analytics and Machine Learning on IBM Z
September 1, 2018
Enterprises have vast amounts of high-value, sensitive data on IBM Z*. With recent advances in machine learning technology, it’s the right time to extract key insights from this data and monetize it. Given its sensitive nature, it only makes sense to leverage that data in place. Enterprises can also minimize costly data movement and maintain […]
ArticlesCreating a Self-Managing Mainframe
September 1, 2018
Hybrid IT environments, along with IT leaders and their teams, are facing more challenges than ever because of digital transformation efforts to add new or improved services for customers. The challenges are coming from all sides, and IT teams are often backed into a corner, left to respond reactively to dynamic changes, customer situations, threats […]
ArticlesFirst Option Improves Hosting Services With Collaboration
September 1, 2018
UP CLOSE Customer: First Option Headquarters: Cave Creek, Arizona Business: IT hosting services Challenge: Growing its hosting business while still focusing on other aspects of the business Solution: Partnering with mindSHIFT, another IT hosting service provider, to develop a lower-cost, more easily managed and geographically dispersed hosting environment Hardware: Several IBM Power Systems servers The […]
ArticlesThe Significance of Cybersecurity
August 27, 2018
The foil to cybercrime is cybersecurity—the protection of internet-connected systems including hardware, software and data from cyberattacks.
ArticlesThe Significance of Technology Change and IT Innovation
August 20, 2018
This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. Technology change, that force that moves technology forward, is one of those very powerful momentums in IT. However, IT innovation is its own specific kind of technology change that nevertheless has a significant effect on […]
ArticlesPrestart Jobs and Server Jobs
August 16, 2018
IBM i expert Dawn May on the user interface for displaying server jobs and how to manage your prestart server jobs
ArticlesFresh Faces in IBM i Development
August 14, 2018
Last year, we saw the introduction of the “Fresh Faces of IBM i” campaign from marketing. This year, we’ve introduced another “class” of Fresh Faces in the IBM i community.
ArticlesThe Significance of Open Source
August 13, 2018
This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. The evolving development and use of open-source software is one of those very powerful ideas. Let me explain. Big Software I use the phrase “evolving development and use of open software,” but maybe it’s just […]
ArticlesAnnouncing the POWER9 980 for IBM i and 7.3 TR5
August 7, 2018
Steve Will announces the POWER9-based IBM Power System E980, detailing its support for IBM i with required Technology Refreshes.
ArticlesThe Significance of Internetworking
August 6, 2018
Internetworking, or more simply put, an internet, is a powerful idea in modern IT.
ArticlesSubsystem Configuration for Prestart Jobs
August 3, 2018
Separating prestart jobs across multiple subsystems can offer several benefits.
ArticlesOf Dials and Switches: More about Tunables
August 1, 2018
Learn how to obtain more detailed information on each tunable.
ArticlesA Turning Point for Open Source on IBM i
August 1, 2018
IBM i is quickly becoming a fertile platform for open-source innovation, thanks to recent advancements.
ArticlesThe Challenge of Making Technical Decisions
August 1, 2018
One of the largest clients I’ve worked with over the years was a paper producer that owned numerous paper mills in Wisconsin that had lost most of their IT staff. It continuously produced several paper types, and if IT operations stopped for more than eight hours, mills would shut down. When a mill shut down, […]
ArticlesPamela Taylor on Her SHARE Presidency and the Path to Authorship
August 1, 2018
Reg Harbeck: Hi, I'm Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Pam Taylor, a past president of SHARE and an author of historical fiction and really a whole lot of other things. She is going to tell us all about how she ended up at SHARE, on the mainframe and being an author. Pam, why […]
ArticlesDevelop a Cloud Strategy That Aligns With Business Goals
August 1, 2018
How you pursue a goal is as important to achieving it as identifying the goal in the first place. According to a study by Dominican University researchers, participants who wrote down their goals were significantly more likely to reach them. Moreover, study members who detailed the specific actions they would take and made regular progress […]
ArticlesJulia Programming Language Bridges the Machine-Learning Gap
August 1, 2018
Previously unsolvable computational problems are now within reach thanks to the convergence of a number of powerful forces. Recent tech advances in self-driving cars, machine translation and image and speech recognition wouldn’t be possible without corresponding advances in hardware and software. Deep learning, a programming approach where the computer learns from experience and concepts rather […]
ArticlesThe Significance of Computer Architecture
July 30, 2018
Computer architecture is a powerful idea that influences modern IT.
ArticlesDisplay Active Prestart Jobs
July 24, 2018
The Display Active Prestart Jobs (DSPACTPJ) command can be very helpful to determine the values to use for those configuration parameters.
ArticlesThe Significance of Shared Services
July 23, 2018
This week, I am beginning a new series where I explore an important idea that has helped to shape IT in the modern era. What do we mean when we explore significance in an IT context? {^image|(width)400|(height)173|(mouseoverheight)174|(originalheight)267|(behavior)hover|(alt)ITTrendz1.jpg|(tooltip)ITTrendz1.jpg|(url)/wp-content/uploads/content-images/Blogs.jpg.aspx?width=400&height=173|(originalwidth)612|(mouseoverwidth)400|(sizetourl)True^} Shared services are one of those very powerful ideas. Let me explain. An Example of the Important Notion […]
ArticlesPrestart Job Configuration Settings
July 11, 2018
There are two main considerations for how prestart jobs are managed by the system.
ArticlesIBM i in Healthcare: IBM’s WISH Application
July 8, 2018
IBM’s WISH application is the most modern health information system for the Belgian market based on WebSphere and Java.