Navigating the Core: A Compendium of Traditional z/OS Interfaces
December 8, 2025
From the beginning of this series, “z/OS and Friends,” I have wanted to create a compendium of widely used interfaces with z/OS. It is a long-standing interest of mine as every OS feature, software product and application development environment is modular and relies on programmed interfaces to communicate and interact. In fact, the whole programming […]
ArticlesGenerative AI and the Fast Track to Mainframe Skills
December 5, 2025
Meredith Stowell, VP of LinuxONE & Z Ecosystem at IBM, explains how generative AI tools are helping new mainframers get up to speed and beat the skills gap
ArticlesExplaining Mainframe Security to Your CISO
December 4, 2025
Mark Wilson of Vertali explains how to help your CISO understand the threats that face the mainframe despite its reputation for security
ArticlesNew AIX and Availability Enhancements
December 3, 2025
Rob McNelly shares recent IBM news and notifications, including virtualization enhancements and security alerts
ArticlesBeyond the Basics: Advanced Capabilities for IBM i Agents
December 2, 2025
After explaining how to build agents for IBM i, IBM AI specialists Adam Shedivy and Devansh Kumar show how to transform those agents from useful tools into intelligent systems
Building the Future With DevOps, CI/CD and Developer Tooling
November 24, 2025
Why did it take so long for DevOps to become standard practice? It seems like a no-brainer. But it’s questions like these that make it so fascinating to watch the evolution of software deployment. In the case of DevOps, some organizations realized they were suffering from a lack of an interdisciplinary team, so they began […]
ArticlesISVs Push Back Against zPDT Sunsetting
November 24, 2025
The platform allows ISVs to test their products on-premises in an emulated z/OS environment, but only for another 13 months
ArticlesHow to Build an AI Agent for IBM i
November 21, 2025
In this step-by-step tutorial, IBM AI specialists Adam Shedivy and Devansh Kumar show how to bring agentic AI from theory to practice
ArticlesUnderstanding Power Supplies for Power Systems: Updated for Power11
November 18, 2025
Jaqui Lynch discusses power distribution units, IBM server requirements and the energy levels needed to support both
ArticlesUsing a Metric Database to Populate Dashboards for IBM i
November 14, 2025
Rick Flagler explains how to create a database to contain metrics for dashboard reporting—for the sake of performance, simplicity and flexibility