Leveraging AI in the DevOps Process
November 29, 2022
Through the DevOps process, organizations can deliver value and innovation to meet business and customer demands. However, a flawed development project can have a disastrous effect on a brand’s reliability and revenue. Quality assurance (QA) teams are tasked with ensuring the quality, completeness and accuracy of a project before it’s distributed. But with rapidly changing […]
ArticlesMoving Mainframe Apps to the Cloud: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
November 29, 2022
Over the last few years there’s been a noticeable push from the big public cloud data center providers to encourage enterprises to move their zSystems mainframe applications to the cloud. Cloud providers are offering a mix of support to entice companies, including development and runtime environments, systems integration tools and expertise—plus assurances that moving to […]
ArticlesWays to Work With Your JVMs in Navigator for i
November 22, 2022
One of my very first i Can blogs was “Work With Your JVMs,” written when the JVM CL commands (WRKJVMJOB, DSPJVMJOB, PRTJVMJOB, and GENJVMDMP) were added in the 6.1 release. Since that time, IBM added additional ways to work with your JVMs. This post provides updated information on the features available in Navigator for i […]
ArticlesIBM Diamondback Tape Library: Storage for the Future
November 22, 2022
In an age when data capacity is growing rapidly, the need for smart, sustainable, resilient storage solutions is growing just as quickly. Enter: IBM Diamondback Tape Storage. Released in October 2022, Diamondback is a next-generation, sustainable, ultra-high-density storage solution designed to protect against the constant threat of ransomware and data breaches in hybrid cloud environments. […]
ArticlesBuilding for Successful Modernization and Operationalization
November 15, 2022
As IT environments evolve, so do security and modernization strategies. And while no “one-size-fits-all” modernization solutions exist, there are certainly ways to position your organization for a successful IT environment modernization plan poised to meet business needs. According to Ensono’s Oliver Presland, for example, successfully laying out your modernization plan begins with asking yourself […]
Java at 25: Celebrating Milestones, Mainframe Interoperability and More
November 15, 2022
It can be said that one sign of a healthy long-term relationship is that there’s still room for small, pleasant surprises. Such is the case with the IBM mainframe and Java. Even though Java’s availability on the mainframe predates the introduction of z/Architecture, IBM’s Skyla Loomis continues to encounter application developers who don’t realize that […]
ArticlesHow to Position Your Organization for Successful IT Modernization
November 9, 2022
As IT environments evolve, so do security and modernization strategies. And while there are not any “one-size-fits-all” modernization solutions, there are certainly ways to position your organization for a successful IT environment modernization plan poised to meet business needs. According to Ensono’s Oliver Presland, for example, successfully laying out your modernization plan begins with […]
ArticlesA New Resource for Open-Source Communities
November 7, 2022
It’s estimated that around 70% of the world’s Fortune 500 companies use IBM mainframes. Of course this comes as no surprise to mainframers who have long been exposed to these factoids. But for the mainframe to continue to grow—and specifically, to attract the next generation of technologists to the platform—its presence must expand beyond the […]
ArticlesEnable Rapid Ransomware Recovery With IM Software
November 3, 2022
Many people work on the principle that their mainframe is safe from catastrophic attacks because it is different from Linux and Windows platforms. Hackers don’t understand how it works—what they used to call security by obscurity. Unfortunately, mainframes are generally high-value targets with plenty of critical data residing on them. That makes them an enticing […]
ArticlesThe Evolution of Mainframe Education
October 28, 2022
The average age of a mainframer is 58 years old. Yes, most of us have gray hair and wear Aerosmith tee shirts to work. The task at hand is how do we pass the baton of mainframe knowledge to the next class of mainframers that will support the massive mainframe ecosystem that runs our world […]