DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: A Q+A With Rosalind Radcliffe
March 15, 2023
Much of Rosalind Radcliffe’s career has been spent ensuring DevOps can be cross platform and cross enterprise, including zSystems as part of hybrid cloud. Most recently, Radcliffe, IBM Fellow and CIO DevSecOps CTO, moved to the client side in the IBM CIO organization, a customer of the DevSecOps products. The IBM CIO’s office is responsible […]
ArticlesVisualize System Monitor Data for IBM i
March 10, 2023
My blog Getting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited explained how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i. Once you have system monitors up and running, you will want to look at the monitor data on a regular basis. There are three options: Visualize Monitor Data, Visualize Monitor Data (new tab) […]
ArticlesBuilding Computing Skills Through the IBM zStudent Contest
March 9, 2023
Last year, more than 25,000 contestants participated in the 2022 IBM zStudent Contest, designed to teach participants computing skills and help them gain an edge in the enterprise computing industry. This year’s contest centered on sustainable energy, guiding participants through challenges to collect battery parts for an electric vehicle. Students learn and use JCL, z/OS, […]
ArticlesWomen of COBOL Celebrates International Women’s Day
March 8, 2023
Since 2021, the Women of COBOL video series has been uncovering and overcoming unconscious biases about COBOL and women in technology. What inspired the series? Moderator Misty Decker, director of worldwide AMC product marketing at OpenText (formerly Micro Focus), says, “I have been in the mainframe ecosystem for 30 years now. Over the years, I’ve […]
ArticlesIBM and Cohesity Collaborate to Offer New Security Solution
March 3, 2023
On March 2, IBM announced that it is partnering with Cohesity to offer a new Storage Defender solution that includes IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage FlashSystems, IBM Storage Fusion, and Cohesity DataProtect. IBM Storage Defender uses AI and event monitoring to combat the impacts of breaches and cyberattacks as security risks rise in today’s data-driven […]
Feet of Iron, Heads of Clay: The Counterintuitive Persistence of Legacy Technology
March 3, 2023
COBOL and the IBM mainframe are nerds. I’ll explain shortly, but first… The term “feet of clay” has become a common part of our language, referring to leaders, organizations and initiatives that have unreliable foundational traits despite the best and most visionary of intentions. Of course, the subtle implications often include that those very attractive […]
ArticlesTeaching the New Class of Mainframe Architects
February 23, 2023
For Bobby Houston, hybrid cloud architect at Kyndryl, the best part about the mainframe is the people. Pat Stanard, Houston’s mentor and chief mainframe architect at Kyndryl, is one of those people. Houston and Stanard met through Aspiring Architects, a program started by Stanard that prepares participants for careers in mainframe architecture. Bobby went through […]
ArticlesGetting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited
February 21, 2023
Dawn May explains how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i
ArticlesNetworking, Hanging NIM Operations and AIX Quirks
February 16, 2023
Rob McNelly covers how to troubleshoot common NIM issues and AIX tips and tricks
ArticlesThe Staying Power of IBM i: Ask ChatGPT, IBM i Users or IBM
February 15, 2023
As I mentioned in my last post, IBM i celebrates 35 years in 2023. That’s 35 years of providing an integrated platform which reliably runs businesses of all sizes—and doing it in a way that not only satisfies our customers, but it does it so well that a vast majority of our IBM i users […]