Open Source

Why Linux on IBM Z Continues to Grow

Continuing his series, "The IBM Z Experience," Joe Gulla explains how IBM achieves enterprise‑grade open source at mainframe scale, and why the market demands it

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era

Project Lightwell establishes a trusted enterprise clearinghouse for open source software with a new AI-driven model for securing the software supply chain.

Agents in the Enterprise: How to Meet the AI Moment

Experts in AI and cloud infrastructure explain what enterprises and technology providers are doing to operationalize agentic workflows at scale

A Decade of Development: The Open Mainframe Project and the Open Source Revolution

Founding members Steven Dickens, Len Santalucia and John Mertic reflect on the democratization of the mainframe ecosystem

Spec-Driven Development and Context Engineering—A Smarter Approach to AI-Enabled Coding

Brenno Oliveira of Kyndryl explains why this measured approach beats "vibe coding" as a reliable path to desired results

Mainframe and AI: Driving IT Modernization

Blair Technology Solutions is at the forefront of mainframe modernization, leveraging the power of IBM’s watsonx Code Assistant for Z to bring artificial intelligence into legacy COBOL environments. By automating COBOL code explanation and documentation, and integrating AI-driven code generation and refactoring workflows, Blair is reducing onboarding time, accelerating development cycles, and preserving the reliability […]

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Mainframe Skills 2030: Who Will Run Your IBM Z?

Craig Mullins contemplates the mainframe's looming skills gap, highlights efforts to build a robust talent pipeline and describes the top five mainframe skills for IT professionals to learn

IBM Brings Server Design Changes to OpenSSH

Rob McNelly explains what he found helpful about the changes before sharing IBM Support tips and detailing his latest hiking adventure

Automating AIX Recovery With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Zabbix

Andy Wojnarek of ATS Group explains how AIX teams integrate Zabbix with Red Hat Ansible Automation and Event-Driven Ansible to automate filesystem recovery, performance tuning and adapter reconfiguration

A Guide to ClamAV Open-Source Anti-Malware for AIX

Chris Gibson explains how to install, configure and use the signature-based software