Your z17 Upgrade Calculus: How Cutting-Edge Do You Need to Be?
April 16, 2026
Mainframe analyst Steven Dickens and Rick Schoonmaker, director of product management for IBM Z and LinuxONE hardware, explain what you need to be thinking about at this point in the hardware cycle
ArticlesNew Orleans, Here We Come: Previewing POWERUp 2026
April 10, 2026
Organizers promise more opportunities to make personal connections and learn about the emerging technologies affecting their work
ArticlesAutomation Isn’t Accountability: Why the DBA Still Owns the Outcome on IBM Z
April 10, 2026
While there is real value in automation and much promise in AI, human expertise will still be required—because humans will still be accountable, Craig Mullins observes
ArticlesObservability and Telemetry: Why IBM i Shops Should Care
April 9, 2026
Dawn May outlines IBM i's unique strengths in observability and telemetry while exploring ways to extend those capabilities to other environments
ArticlesBuilding Real-Time Data Pipelines to the Cloud Without Disruption
April 8, 2026
How enterprises can stream data from mainframe and Power systems to the cloud to support real-time analytics and AI applications
IBM Bob Is Here
April 3, 2026
The platform-neutral, AI-driven IDE became generally available March 24 as IBM highlighted early case studies
ArticlesUnderstanding a Legend, From Pre-Z to the Present: Welcome to ‘The IBM Z Experience’
April 2, 2026
Joe Gulla follows up on 'z/OS and Friends' with a new series, setting out to understand the impact of the mainframe through a lens of innovation, realization and transformation
ArticlesWorking Magic with hmcscanner
April 2, 2026
Rob McNelly conjures an Excel file and gets a timely reminder
ArticlesGet It Straight: Mainframe Migration Is Not Modernization
March 31, 2026
Mark Schettenhelm, principal product manager at BMC, notices that when people talk about modernization, they often mean migration—to their own detriment
ArticlesA ‘Grayframer’ Comes to Terms With ‘Vibe Coding’
March 27, 2026
Even if AI writes the code, humans still have to understand it, veteran mainframer Bruce McKnight reasons