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COBOL Supports the World’s Business Operations

Jim Utsler

March 17, 2021

“Fine wine gets better with age,” or so the phrase goes. Oddly, this aphorism also in a way applies to COBOL. It was great when it was developed, but over the 60-plus years it’s been around, it’s actually improved in some ways, even enabling many companies to enter the digital age. Reports suggesting hundreds of […]

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The Cybersecurity Market Is Rapidly Growing

Lauren Borchart

March 12, 2021

With the rise of internet usage and availability has also come an increase in cybercrimes like scamming, phishing and hacking. This has created a high demand for cybersecurity protocols and policies to help keep enterprises safe from cyber-attacks. According to a 2020 report from Global Market Insights (GMI), the cybersecurity market has been flourishing in […]

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AIX at 35 and the Layered Significance of AIX 7.3

Rob McNelly

March 10, 2021

Rob McNelly on AIX and Power hardware improvements, and where the AIX roadmap might lead beyond 2023

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Today’s Business Systems Run on COBOL

Patrick Stanard

March 10, 2021

In my past life I was a COBOL developer. Yes, I did use Herman Hollerith 80-column punched cards to do my programming. Yes, COBOL has been around for a very long time and yes, COBOL is very alive and well in the year 2021! 60 years old and counting. Admiral Grace Hopper and COBOL Let’s […]

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Building an LGBTQ-Inclusive Workplace in the Tech Industry

Alyssa Story

March 4, 2021

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, is on a mission to ensure civil and equal rights for all LGBTQ people. The LGBTQ community is an integral part of American society, but bias, discrimination and bigotry can cause unsafe and unproductive work environment for […]

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Overview of the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert

Dawn May

March 4, 2021

The IBM i Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) provides the ability to ensure your environment and application attributes remain in a consistent and expected state. Using ARE, you set up templates that define the attributes you want to verify, run the verification against your own partition or groups of partitions and review reports on any differences […]

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Old COBOL Dog, New JSON, XML and Mobile Workload Tricks

Reg Harbeck

March 3, 2021

What is an old dog? What is a new trick? If COBOL were a human, its 61 years might make it seem eligible for early retirement. But something strange has been happening in the world of established business technology, beginning with the non-retirement of highly-experienced technologists. Yes, there are plenty of people who have followed […]

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Technology Training in a Virtual Landscape

Lauren Borchart

March 3, 2021

By now, we’ve all become used to all things virtual. Our meetings, happy hours and family gatherings have all been taking place online. With life still moving forward, effective technology trainings are among other important matters that have moved to virtual. While the popularity of live virtual training and learning had been steadily on the […]

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Tom Huntington on the 2020 HelpSystems Survey and the Effects of the Pandemic

Paul Tuohy

March 2, 2021

Paul Tuohy: Hi everybody. Welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. So actually it seems like the other day that we were talking Tom and it pretty much was so—   Tom Huntington: Right. It was.   Paul: I’m joined today by Tom Huntington, who is the executive VP of Technical Solutions on HelpSystems, and we […]

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Updating to HMC v9

Jaqui Lynch

March 2, 2021

IBM brought out HMC v9 M910 in March 2018 for x86, Power and virtual HMCs. Since then, there have been numerous updates to the v9 code, adding features and fixing bugs. As new releases have come out, requirements for the HMC hardware have changed. The latest release (V9R2M950) no longer supports the x86 HMCs (7042-*) […]

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