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IBM Announces IBM z/OS V2.5

TechChannel

July 28, 2021

According to an IBM Institute for Business Value study “Application modernization on the mainframe” released today, 71% of executives surveyed say mainframe-based applications are central to their business strategy; and in three years, the percentage of organizations leveraging mainframe assets in a hybrid cloud environment is expected to increase by more than 2x. With this in […]

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What Does the Future Hold for Open Source?

Jesse Gorzinski

July 23, 2021

Jesse Gorzinski kicks off his "Open Your i" blog series on TechChannel. Learn what’s been going on with open source on IBM i, and what the future brings.

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The Pandemic and Modernizing Your Mainframe

Trevor Eddolls

July 21, 2021

The press often seems filled with stories about how mainframes were first available in the 1960s and implies that the technology hasn’t advanced since then—ignoring the fact that cars and jet planes are even older, and they can be seen to be updated all the time. So, why wouldn’t mainframes have been updated to give […]

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Survey Says: The Truth About COBOL and the World Economy

Reg Harbeck

July 19, 2021

On June 14, 2021, the COBOL Working Group (CWG) of the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project (OMP) had the opportunity to present at the Marist Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) conference about a topic that shouldn’t be so surprising if people didn’t overlook how interesting and compelling it is—COBOL. Ah, COBOL: Common Business-Oriented Language—a name for […]

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AIX Patch Management With Ansible, and the Broader Benefits of Automation

Rob McNelly

July 15, 2021

Waiting on a Replacement Part, the Latest With OpenSSH, a Bold Client Choice and a VIOS Webinar

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