Managing the IT Project Backlog
September 11, 2019
While IT seems to be an exercise in reading the future and transforming it into business processes, IT often misuses its most vital resource—the people that turn hardware, software and networks into business applications that improve productivity, provide new function, and increase employee effectiveness. Analysts are pulled off projects barely halfway complete, designers are reassigned […]
ArticlesGet Started With Go Language on AIX
September 3, 2019
Go toolchain, the self-hosted toolchain of the new high-performance networking and multiprocessing language, is now available on AIX* 7.2 for POWER8*. This toolchain aims to complement the previous port of Go for AIX, which was made within gcc (known as the gccgo toolchain). What Is Go Language? Go is a new imperative language inspired by […]
ArticlesWhen the Phone Rings in the Middle of the Night
August 16, 2019
It’s been decades since I had a 9:00 to 5:00 job, only the earliest weeks of my IT career. Training kept me out of town a lot, and becoming a participating project member took a few months to attain, but once I’d become an accountable project member, my working hours extended into evenings because of […]
ArticlesCelebrating 10 Years of i Can
August 12, 2019
How time flies! It’s hard to believe I’ve been writing the ‘i Can’ blog for 10 years. Over these 10 years a lot has changed, yet my dedication to the platform remains as strong as ever. The ‘i Can’ blog started as a way to share information about ‘hidden gems’ in IBM i. At semi-regular intervals, […]
ArticlesIBM Redbooks: A Look at the Website’s 3 Tabs
August 12, 2019
Joseph Gulla explains the different tabs on the IBM Redbooks website.
IBM Redbooks Are More Than Books
August 5, 2019
Joseph Gulla explores materials on the IBM Redbooks site.
ArticlesLuisa Martinez on zNextGen and SHARE
August 1, 2019
Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Luisa Martinez who is the IBM rep to the zNextGen project at SHARE. Luisa, maybe if you can start by just telling us, how did you end up on the mainframe? Luisa Martinez: All right. Well thank you for having me and […]
ArticlesValuable Sessions Continue on Day 2 of the 2019 ECC Conference
July 19, 2019
Joseph Gulla highlights sessions from the 2019 ECC conference.
ArticlesCompute Trends and the Evolution of the IBM Mainframe
July 18, 2019
The past 40-plus years of commercial computing has been a story of three waves (acts) of increasing integration of processes coupled with increasing scale of computing. This article describes each wave, and provides insights of where the current wave of cloud computing is heading. For many of the world’s largest enterprises, modern businesses were built […]
ArticlesSHARE Women in IT Effort Works to Increase Representation and Support Those in the Tech Industry
July 17, 2019
SHARE recently launched a new effort to encourage more women to pursue careers in technology, increase representation at the conference, and support women already working in the industry. The result of this Women in IT initiative became clear back in March 2019 at SHARE Phoenix, where several sessions focused on women in technology and shattering […]