Improve Workload Resilience With z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator
March 24, 2020
IBM has two new contributions to the IBM Z family: A data infrastructure provided by z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and a visualization engine driven by z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator.
ArticlesHow Crypto Revolutions in the Financial Industry Link to Modern-Day Conceptions of Fintech
March 16, 2020
The financial sector experienced turmoil in the past decade. We don’t have to hand cash or credit cards to our taxi drivers anymore as we can use an app instead. Furthermore, we can easily send money to our friends and family via Payoneer and Paypal, never leaving the comfort of our homes. What’s more, today […]
ArticlesRoute Work by IP Address with QSYS2.SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING() Service
March 4, 2020
In this iCan blog post, IBM i expert Dawn May explains how to route work by client IP address without Navigator for i.
ArticlesPowerVM Capability Offers Value to SAP HANA
February 18, 2020
A new PowerVM capability called Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) provides a fast restart of workloads during outages in SAP HANA environments.
ArticlesUsing nmonchart; Verifying IBM Downloads
January 21, 2020
Courtesy of Russell Adams, here's some useful information on performance monitoring tool nmon and how to more securely verify IBM downloads.
Lower Levels of IT Managers Should Have IT Experience
January 20, 2020
In my roles as IBM senior systems engineer, and later, IT consultant and project manager, I’ve worked with a wide variety of IT managers, especially first and second level managers. That’s where most of the work is done, where pieces are connected and enabled, yet I found in many projects or development efforts—especially situations involving […]
ArticlesMinimizing Project Plan Delays With Debugging
December 16, 2019
Project planning has been a way of life for me since my career’s early days, learned from an IBM senior systems engineer who was my comrade providing support to a large, leading edge insurance company, driven by their appetite for CICS First Customer Shipment, then Early Support Programs as IBM’s early introduction programs evolved. Project […]
ArticlesThe Benefits of Working Remotely in IT
November 15, 2019
When I was rewriting a student records system for my graduate college, I spent most of time in a tiny room with a keypunch and desk filled with old and new program printouts, plus the punched card versions of each. When I wrote code, it was an instruction per card (or more if putting an […]
ArticlesEnabling Applications to Use Large Memory Pages
November 4, 2019
In the second part of this series on large memory pages, AIX expert Mark Ray walks readers through how to enable applications to use them
ArticlesGraphing AIX Performance Data
October 30, 2019
Understand your unique environment to best collect and graph data.