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Joe Gulla traces the evolution of the Customer Information Control System (CICS), harkening back to its first release and providing a comprehensive accounting of its modern-day application development capabilities
ArticlesAnnouncing Manzan: The Future of IBM i Event Monitoring
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The open source project is designed to simplify the process of publishing IBM i system events
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Brenno Oliveira of Kyndryl explains how to craft prompts that will maximize the effectiveness of AI coding sidekicks
How to Make the Most of Your 2025 POWERUp Experience
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COMMON’s LeAnn Taylor shares her tips for thriving at the upcoming Power conference, covering networking, education and the importance of enjoying yourself
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Mukesh Khare, GM of IBM Semiconductors, provides a closer look at IBM's AI efforts, highlighted by the introduction of the z17
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The complexities and nuances of finding and fixing mainframe code errors
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While cloud and AI get much of the attention, there are other ongoing advancements that database administrators should be aware of
ArticlesAnnouncing IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 TR6
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IBM i CTO Steve Will covers enhancements for security, database, system administration, application development and HA/DR