SHARE Women in IT Effort Works to Increase Representation and Support Those in the Tech Industry
July 17, 2019
SHARE recently launched a new effort to encourage more women to pursue careers in technology, increase representation at the conference, and support women already working in the industry. The result of this Women in IT initiative became clear back in March 2019 at SHARE Phoenix, where several sessions focused on women in technology and shattering […]
ArticlesManagement by Intimidation Is a Formula for Failure
July 16, 2019
Over the decades I’ve seen scores of management staff in action, some competent and motivating, others technology savvy yet people ignorant, some just the opposite, some political and back-stabbing, and some truly cost-obsessed. I spent 17 years with IBM and flourished under their management style, then founded an IT consulting firm. Instead of being managed […]
ArticlesDelivered IBM i RFEs
July 11, 2019
A look at a few RFEs that provide enhancements you may not be aware of.
ArticlesIBM Research Is Revamping the Global Food Supply Chain
July 10, 2019
According to the United Nations, the earth’s human population could grow to 8 billion people over the next few years. Go to research.ibm.com/5-in-5/ to read more about IBM Research’s five seed to shelf predictions. Unfortunately, the global food chain—from farms to processors to grocers to the table—may not be able to safely and effectively keep […]
ArticlesGetting Started With IFS Containers
July 8, 2019
IBM i expert Jesse Gorzinski explains set up a container running Node.js version 10
Scheduler Resource Allocation Domains or What the Heck is SRAD?
July 2, 2019
Technical expert Mark J. Ray explores the Scheduler Resource Allocation Domain and how it relates to performance structures in Power Systems servers running AIX
ArticlesA Look at the IBM Global Solutions Directory
July 1, 2019
This post is the last in a series on ISVs, service providers, the Dallas ISV Center offerings, PartnerWorld and the IBM Global Solutions Directory (GSD).
ArticlesMisty Decker on Communicating the IBM Z Story
July 1, 2019
Reg Harbeck: Hi, I'm Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Misty Decker. Misty is in charge of the IBM Academic Initiative, which is really key to the future of the mainframe. Misty, welcome. Can you tell us, how did you end up on the mainframe? Misty Decker: It was an accident. I went to college; […]
ArticlesACS Application Packages and the ODBC Driver for i
June 19, 2019
The ODBC driver for IBM i is now available and you can download it in the same way as the application packages.
ArticlesSLAs Simplify Support
June 17, 2019
Service-level agreements (SLAs) were nearly nonexistent when I started in IT. Those of us involved in online systems implementation were too focused on keeping terminal-based applications operational and tolerably responsive to worry about such things; furthermore, no one had heard of them. There wasn’t much pressure for an SLA either, because end users were infatuated […]