IBM Research Is Working to Improve Mental Health Diagnoses
September 18, 2017
Imagine being able to predict the onset of a mental health condition before it hits. Or receive a diagnosis at home instead of a psychiatrist’s office. Or being able to adjust your medications based on patterns in your speech when you casually talk with family and friends. Within the next five years, you may not […]
ArticlesAn RPGers First Steps with JSON: Consuming JSON data with YAJL
September 12, 2017
How to use the YAJL library to consume a JSON document and extract the data for use by an RPG program. Part 2 of 2.
ArticlesWill You Be The Next Victim Of Ransomware?
September 11, 2017
Ransomware is malicious software that has been covertly installed on a device, such as your laptop or phone, which encrypts your private data and demands a monetary ransom for restoring the data to its original format. If the data is highly sensitive, the ransom may be the threat of public disclosure of the private data. […]
ArticlesTop IT Concerns
September 11, 2017
We’ve heard it at trade shows and read about it in surveys: The top challenges for IBM Power Systems* clients are security, high availability and modernization. It’s no surprise because every CIO needs to keep their data safe and available in order to stay competitive—all while keeping the company’s name out of headlines covering the […]
ArticlesIBM i and Watson
September 5, 2017
Steve Will discusses how IBM Watson and IBM i are related.
Layering the World
September 4, 2017
Microscopes have advanced so far since their inception, they may soon be able to see the small scale in almost infinite detail. But the large scale? It seems much easier to visualize—look up at the sky—but when big, complex data gets thrown into the mix, that may not be the case. The sky is blue, […]
Articles7 Keys to Future-Proofing Your RPG Applications
September 1, 2017
Implementing RPG future-proofing techniques leads to applications that are more resilient and easier to maintain and enhance over time
ArticlesMonitoring and Administration Needed for CICS Effectiveness
September 1, 2017
This article focuses on CICS performance across all platforms. On the mainframe CICS is known as CICS Transaction Server (TS), but on other platforms the product is named TXSeries, and for special functions, CICS Transaction Gateway. All products are developed and supported by CICS development, and are designed to interact with each other via facilities […]
ArticlesIBM Uses Low-Cost Sensors to Help Address Climate Change Issues
September 1, 2017
Natural gas is considered by many to be a cleaner energy source. The downside to natural gas is the methane that is a primary component. If it leaks into the air—estimates suggest approximately 1-2 percent leakage is common at production sites—it absorbs the sun’s heat and warms the Earth’s atmosphere. Methane is estimated to be […]
ArticlesEnterprise Testing
August 28, 2017
This is the first post in this series on system and application testing on enterprise systems. On mainframes, there are two kinds of programmers—application programmers and system programmers. They are both developers but they operate in different circles because their jobs are fundamentally different. They collaborate with each other, especially when system programmers launch a […]