A Timeline of Mainframe Innovation
June 20, 2024
IBM Champion Reg Harbeck outlines the history of the IBM Z mainframe and highlights its impacts over the past six decades
ArticlesShining the Spotlight on IBM Z Mainframe Innovations
June 7, 2024
How the Telum chip, hybrid cloud, AI, quantum-safe cryptography, rack-mount configuration and open-source technology continue to drive the platform forward
PodcastsA Next-Generation Mainframer Finds Her Way
May 20, 2024
Emma Skovgård on the challenges and rewards of her new systems programming career
ArticlesThe Value of Open-Source Software on the Mainframe
November 3, 2023
Mainframes, as we know, are fast, reliable and secure. They can deliver data to users faster than any other platform—particularly, cloud-based systems—and they can ensure that the data is encrypted in transit, while stored and even when in use. The software that runs on these computing behemoths comes from reputable software vendors who ensure their […]
ArticlesOpen Mainframe Project Celebrates 5 Years of Zowe, Looks Back on Growth
October 12, 2023
Since the Open Mainframe Project was founded eight years ago, the program has grown and evolved to become a pillar of the mainframe community, serving as a focal point for the deployment and use of Linux and open-source technology on the mainframe. Over the past near-decade, Open Mainframe has branched out into several other projects […]
Zowe LTS V2 Key Features, How Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe Has Evolved and More
July 14, 2022
Four years ago, Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe was spawned from the collective realization among mainframers that the silo is no longer suitable. With its second version announced in May, the open-source framework features expanded capabilities and a rapidly growing user base that’s using its tools to securely modernize mainframe environments. The “silo” is a familiar concept […]
E-BooksTechChannel E-book: Unlocking COBOL Business Value
March 9, 2021
The ubiquity of both the IBM Z platform and COBOL programming language comes from the forethought IBM put into each in 1964 when the first mainframe was launched. COBOL was optimized for business processing with no need to recompile programs. As a result, it continues to run the world’s economy today. But many COBOL shops […]
ArticlesZowe Launches IBM Z Toward Modern Computing
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 […]
ArticlesGetting to Know the Open-Source Zowe Project
September 1, 2018
Zowe—the first open-source framework for z/OS—is poised to break new ground for IBM Z clients. Announced on Tuesday, Aug. 14, at SHARE in St. Louis, by executives from IBM, CA Technologies, Rocket Software and the Open Mainframe Project, the open-source project promises to be a game changer. “Open source redefines industries across the board. We’ve […]