The Unique Benefits of z/OS-Native Database Systems
June 16, 2025
This is the first of two “z/OS and Friends” articles on database management systems. I am focused on z/OS because there are families of products, like the Db2 family, that run on different platforms, and because of platform differences, the products consume CPU cycles and utilize memory and storage in different ways. There are many […]
ArticlesEmerging Security Threats Need Tomorrow’s Solutions
June 12, 2025
Puneet Kohli, president of the application modernization business unit at Rocket Software, explains how companies can protect themselves today
ArticlesMy Hands-on Experience With IBM Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on z/OS
June 9, 2025
Afroz Alam, senior product developer at BMC Software, outlines three authentication methods he tested
ArticlesIBM Brings Server Design Changes to OpenSSH
June 6, 2025
Rob McNelly explains what he found helpful about the changes before sharing IBM Support tips and detailing his latest hiking adventure
ArticlesAutomating AIX Recovery With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Zabbix
June 5, 2025
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
IMS Transaction Manager: From Its Moonshot Roots to More Recent Product Enhancements
June 2, 2025
In this installment of "z/OS and Friends," Joe Gulla examines IMS Transaction Manager's beginnings, then considers how modern enhancements continue to make it an important component of z/OS
ArticlesA Guide to ClamAV Open-Source Anti-Malware for AIX
May 30, 2025
Chris Gibson explains how to install, configure and use the signature-based software
ArticlesIBM watsonx Code Assistant for i, IBM i 7.6 and AI—Steve Will’s Thoughts From POWERUp 2025
May 23, 2025
The IBM i CTO covers the topics that had COMMON’s conference abuzz, makes a request for old (very old) RPG code and gets ready for Star Wars night
ArticlesDecoding Millennial and Gen Z Workplace Communication
May 23, 2025
Making our Strong Community Stronger webinar highlights the different communication styles the two generations bring to the workplace
ArticlesWhat’s Up at POWERUp
May 19, 2025
Kicking off its biggest event of the year, COMMON celebrates advances in hardware, software and talent development on IBM Power