IBM Z Mainframe

2025 TechChannel Rising Stars

TechChannel recognizes early-career technologists who have already made outstanding contributions to the IBM Z and IBM Power ecosystems.

A Matter of Trust: Why Your AI Strategy Needs a Librarian

Amid an AI "trust crisis," Nathan Smith, who leads mainframe data replication strategy for customers at Kyndryl, writes about the ways the mainframe can help generative AI produce more reliable results

Navigating the Core: A Compendium of Traditional z/OS Interfaces

For "z/OS and Friends," Joe Gulla provides an overview of the interfaces that every feature, software product and application development environment relies on to communicate.

Generative AI and the Fast Track to Mainframe Skills

Meredith Stowell, VP of LinuxONE & Z Ecosystem at IBM, explains how generative AI tools are helping new mainframers get up to speed and beat the skills gap

Explaining Mainframe Security to Your CISO

Mark Wilson of Vertali explains how to help your CISO understand the threats that face the mainframe despite its reputation for security

Building the Future With DevOps, CI/CD and Developer Tooling

Why did it take so long for DevOps to become standard practice? It seems like a no-brainer. But it’s questions like these that make it so fascinating to watch the evolution of software deployment. In the case of DevOps, some organizations realized they were suffering from a lack of an interdisciplinary team, so they began […]

ISVs Push Back Against zPDT Sunsetting

The platform allows ISVs to test their products on-premises in an emulated z/OS environment, but only for another 13 months

Mainframe Security: The Future Is Here

SYSB-II: Turning Nightly Downtime into a Competitive Advantage

If you run on IBM Z, you may still stop CICS overnight so batch jobs can update VSAM files. That pause is a habit, not a requirement. SYSB-II removes the trade-off between fresh data and uninterrupted access: batch updates VSAM while CICS remains open, preserving integrity and predictable response times. The Value in One Paragraph […]

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Beyond Legacy: The Modern Language Ecosystem of z/OS

For "z/OS and Friends," Joe Gulla catalogs the broad and ever-evolving range of programming languages on z/OS