Open Source

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

Announcing Manzan: The Future of IBM i Event Monitoring

The open source project is designed to simplify the process of publishing IBM i system events

IBM Study: More Companies Turning to Open-Source AI Tools to Unlock ROI

New research commissioned by IBM found that companies surveyed are investing in AI for the long term, with a growing interest in using open-source tools to drive ROI and innovation going forward

AI Dominates IBM Executives’ Predictions for 2025

The IBM leaders weren't specifically asked about their thoughts on AI, but it was top of mind for nearly all of them