Closing the COBOL Programming Skills Gap
October 25, 2019
The backbone of today’s electronic commerce is COBOL on an IBM Z computing platform. There are 240 billion lines of COBOL in operation, and another 5 billion new lines are added each year. $3 trillion of commercial transactions are processed by COBOL applications each day. COBOL is what business runs on. Some reports indicate that […]
ArticlesAnnouncing IBM i 7.4 TR1
October 9, 2019
On Tuesday, October 8 2019, IBM made several announcements, including the first Technology Refresh for the IBM i 7.4 release, as well as TR 7 for 7.3.
ArticlesCelebrate 25 Years of PHP at IBM i Day at php[world]
September 16, 2019
Guest blogger Eli White encourages IBM i developers to attend php[world].
ArticlesLuisa Martinez on zNextGen and SHARE
August 1, 2019
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Luisa Martinez who is the IBM rep to the zNextGen project at SHARE. Luisa, maybe if you can start by just telling us, how did you end up on the mainframe? Luisa Martinez: All right. Well thank you for having me and […]
ArticlesValuable Sessions Continue on Day 2 of the 2019 ECC Conference
July 19, 2019
Joseph Gulla highlights sessions from the 2019 ECC conference.
SHARE Women in IT Effort Works to Increase Representation and Support Those in the Tech Industry
July 17, 2019
SHARE recently launched a new effort to encourage more women to pursue careers in technology, increase representation at the conference, and support women already working in the industry. The result of this Women in IT initiative became clear back in March 2019 at SHARE Phoenix, where several sessions focused on women in technology and shattering […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]