Defend Your Mainframe Data From Internal Threats
April 12, 2021
In some blissful past that probably never really existed, mainframe users sat in corporate offices, working on 3270 terminals, and you trusted them because you saw them every day and spoke to them regularly. Nowadays, the world isn’t like that. Mainframe users are most likely accessing the mainframe from a laptop, tablet, or phone. Many […]
ArticlesWhen Does a User Profile Become a Bottleneck?
April 7, 2021
I’ve worked with several clients recently where a user profile, which could be a group profile, has become a major system bottleneck. This issue has taken two forms: Performance issues that occur because many objects are created and deleted for a single owning user profile Availability issues because a user profile hits the limit on […]
ArticlesRegister for the ‘How Personal Experiences Shape Corporate Inclusion’ Webinar
April 1, 2021
Join us on April 28, 2021 at 11:00 CST // 12:00 EST for “How Personal Experiences Shape Corporate Inclusion”—the second webinar of the Making Our Strong Community, Stronger collaborative initiative on diversity, equity and inclusion. This collaborative initiative is inspired by a question to mainframe leaders about diversity: “What are you doing about it?” Hear […]
ArticlesCloud POS Adoption Skyrockets in Retail Equipped With AI-Based Capabilities
April 1, 2021
Until recently, the go-to solution for most brick and mortar retail stores to save their point-of-sale (POS) data, including product price lists and transaction records, was local platforms. These include a range of solutions, from on-premises PCs or servers to larger service provider network servers. However, many retailers have been making a shift towards online […]
ArticlesMarketing Mainframes: A Q&A With Maemalynn Meanor
March 31, 2021
If you know anything about Zowe, the open-source mainframe initiative spearheaded by the Open Mainframe Project, it’s probably because of Maemalynn Meanor, senior PR and marketing manager, The Linux Foundation. Meanor has been managing Zowe communications since day one and has been helping share the open mainframe story to mainframers, open-source enthusiasts, and the rest […]
Mainframes and Cloud Computing
March 29, 2021
We all know what mainframes are—the best and most secure, scalable, and available computing platform—but what exactly is the cloud? Cloud computing started off as design idea on diagrams for unspecified routing and hardware, that the viewer didn’t need to worry about. The important parts of the diagram were around the cloud. More recently, the […]
ArticlesWhy Having a Backup and Recovery Plan Improves IBM i Vitality
March 26, 2021
Monitoring the vitality of your IBM i system is a cornerstone of keeping your business running 24-7. A key component of IBM i’s vitality includes recovering quickly after a disaster with the least amount of disruption to your customers and revenue streams. Debbie Saugen has heard all the excuses for why a company isn’t prioritizing […]
ArticlesExploiting IBM i in a Hybrid Cloud Enterprise Architecture
March 26, 2021
Dominick Pagnotta’s career has come full circle. He began working in IT “well before Windows and Linux,” he says, and first developed applications on AS/400, or even its predecessors. He watched as technology evolved, but now, as CIO of Rochester Drug Cooperative, he oversees new employees developing applications using modern languages on IBM i. Learn how […]
ArticlesCOBOL: What’s XML Got to Do With IT?
March 24, 2021
When I first encountered the works of Thomas Aquinas, which I’m embarrassed to say wasn’t until the beginning of my Master’s degree, commenced 29 years after I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, the first thing I thought was, “This could be put into XML!” Little did I know that XML was a direct […]
ArticlesTeaching Enterprise Technology Skills With a Bootcamp Model
March 23, 2021
John Thompson, CEO, Mobile Collaborative Education Consulting (MCEC), and Cameron Seay, Ph.D. adjunct instructor at East Carolina University, appear to have very different careers at first glance. Thompson is a retired IBM senior manager and Tennessee State University (TSU) brought his company on board to leverage his expertise in the technology sector and the continually […]