Leveraging AI in the Marketing Realm
December 20, 2022
I love visiting my Grandmother, and over the years I’ve grown to love Waverly, Iowa. But it’s been even more pleasant visiting over the last few years, ever since a little coffee shop moved in less than a mile from her home. Until then, it was nearly impossible to get a latte or any kind […]
ArticlesIBM i Services Update
December 19, 2022
I am happy to announce that IBM delivered another round of updates to IBM i Services with the Db2 Group PTF released earlier this month. This blog reviews my favorite enhancements. QSYS2.COMMAND_INFO is a new service to return command information similar to DSPCMD. With no WHERE clause, you can populate a list of all commands […]
ArticlesDelivering Cyberresiliency for Mainframes
December 19, 2022
Cyberresilience is essential for operational and business continuity: it’s part-and-parcel of providing continuous protection for the business and maintaining a hardened security stance. How can you develop and deliver the right strategy to ensure this resilience, secure your mainframe systems and data from attack and other threats and, crucially, resume operations quickly and effectively in […]
ArticlesMonitoring IBM i With Prometheus
December 14, 2022
In my previous blog post, I demonstrated how to deploy a simple dashboard using Grafana, an open-source visualization tool. Today, we will explore a different approach. Rather than using a Grafana backend running on IBM i, we will leverage Prometheus. Prometheus defines itself as “an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.” We can use Prometheus […]
ArticlesIBM, Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Remain Most Reliable Despite Security and Supply Chain Challenges
December 13, 2022
According to a 2022 ITIC survey, the zSystems mainframe and LinuxONE III recorded 3.15 seconds of unplanned per server/per minute annually—making IBM servers the most reliable
Insurance for Db2 for z/OS
December 8, 2022
Log-On Software’s Total Utility Control can automate many database tasks, as the North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company recently discovered
ArticlesOvercoming Misconceptions to Unlock Data Potential
December 8, 2022
Mainframes and IBM i systems are still as vital as ever, with the number of transactions they process increasing every year. Today, mainframes process 90% of all credit card transactions, and 71% of the Fortune 500 trusts them to run their most critical business applications—ensuring security, reliability and scalability. But as businesses are becoming increasingly […]
ArticlesHow to Navigate Ransomware Attacks
December 7, 2022
We know from the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report that the average time to identify and contain a data breach is 277 days–207 days to identify the breach and 70 days to contain the breach. The report also found that the average cost of a data breach is $4.35 million. And we know […]
ArticlesIBM i Security in the Hybrid Workplace
December 6, 2022
According to a recent AT&T work survey, “Hybrid work will be the foremost working model by 2024, with 56% of work done offsite.” Many companies that deployed remote work solutions during the pandemic found that employees working remotely can be as productive as being in the office. In addition, employees are demanding the flexibility to […]
ArticlesCloud, IBM Support, AIX History and More
December 6, 2022
Recently my wife and I traveled cross-country via car. We spent time with family in Virginia and then drove north through Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York state. After celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday, we circled back through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico before returning home to Arizona. Over two weeks, we covered […]