AI Month
Presented by Rocket Software
Where AI Earns Its Place in Mainframe Management
The mainframe is not going away. The Arcati Mainframe Navigator 2026 reinforces the continued importance of IBM Z to business-critical operations, while also showing an industry taking a pragmatic approach to AI. Rather than expecting AI to fundamentally disrupt the...
AI for Mainframe Skills: A Mentor in Your Pocket
Can domain-specific AI accelerate mainframe learning while keeping human expertise and judgment central? IBM’s Meredith Stowell weighs in. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help newcomers learn jobs quicker and contribute faster. A study by the National Bureau of...
Artificial “Adolescence” Requires a New Mainframe Mindset
Hollywood has long depicted fantastical tech, from Star Trek’s ship computers to Iron Man’s JARVIS. Today, AI feels like one of those cinematic futures brought to life. But unlike the movies, it isn't a finished product. It’s a fast-moving reality bringing massive...
❓Think You Know Mainframe AI
Mainframes have powered intelligent decisions for decades. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) takes that role further – spotting fraud as transactions happen, anticipating workload demands, helping developers understand legacy code, and strengthening system...
The Next Mainframe Skills Crisis Isn’t About Retirement. It’s About Operational Complexity.
Executing a known task on a mainframe is a solved problem. Diagnosing an incident that spans five environments is not. And no amount of hiring solves it, because the challenge isn't a shortage of hands.Why faster diagnostics may be more important than faster task...
Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor, Advances in AI Enablement for Application Modernization, and more
IBM Unveils Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE BMC Survey Finds 94% Confidence in the Mainframe as Enterprises Scale AI With Human Oversight Rocket Software Advances AI Enablement for Application Modernization Across Mission-Critical...
The Mainframe’s Renaissance: Why Your System of Record Is the Foundation of AI-Ready Hybrid Cloud
The mainframe never went away. It simply stopped auditioning for attention. While cloud-native startups, hyperscalers, and SaaS platforms dominated enterprise strategy conversations, the organizations running the world’s most critical workloads quietly kept doing what...
AI-Powered WLM Cuts Batch Queue Time by Up to 70%
What happens when Workload Manager can anticipate batch demand instead of simply responding to it? The latest issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter leads off with findings from testing IBM AI-powered Workload Manager (WLM). The test used an AI model trained on 30...
AI Month
Presented by Rocket Software
Where AI Earns Its Place in Mainframe Management
The mainframe is not going away. The Arcati Mainframe Navigator 2026 reinforces the continued importance of IBM Z to business-critical operations, while also showing an industry taking a pragmatic approach to AI. Rather than expecting AI to fundamentally disrupt the...
AI for Mainframe Skills: A Mentor in Your Pocket
Can domain-specific AI accelerate mainframe learning while keeping human expertise and judgment central? IBM’s Meredith Stowell weighs in. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help newcomers learn jobs quicker and contribute faster. A study by the National Bureau of...
Artificial “Adolescence” Requires a New Mainframe Mindset
Hollywood has long depicted fantastical tech, from Star Trek’s ship computers to Iron Man’s JARVIS. Today, AI feels like one of those cinematic futures brought to life. But unlike the movies, it isn't a finished product. It’s a fast-moving reality bringing massive...
❓Think You Know Mainframe AI
Mainframes have powered intelligent decisions for decades. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) takes that role further – spotting fraud as transactions happen, anticipating workload demands, helping developers understand legacy code, and strengthening system...
The Next Mainframe Skills Crisis Isn’t About Retirement. It’s About Operational Complexity.
Executing a known task on a mainframe is a solved problem. Diagnosing an incident that spans five environments is not. And no amount of hiring solves it, because the challenge isn't a shortage of hands.Why faster diagnostics may be more important than faster task...
Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor, Advances in AI Enablement for Application Modernization, and more
IBM Unveils Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE BMC Survey Finds 94% Confidence in the Mainframe as Enterprises Scale AI With Human Oversight Rocket Software Advances AI Enablement for Application Modernization Across Mission-Critical...
The Mainframe’s Renaissance: Why Your System of Record Is the Foundation of AI-Ready Hybrid Cloud
The mainframe never went away. It simply stopped auditioning for attention. While cloud-native startups, hyperscalers, and SaaS platforms dominated enterprise strategy conversations, the organizations running the world’s most critical workloads quietly kept doing what...
AI-Powered WLM Cuts Batch Queue Time by Up to 70%
What happens when Workload Manager can anticipate batch demand instead of simply responding to it? The latest issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter leads off with findings from testing IBM AI-powered Workload Manager (WLM). The test used an AI model trained on 30...
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IBM Z® OMEGAMON® Virtual Technical Summit: From Operational Visibility to Actionable Insight
The future of IBM Z operations will require more than monitoring. As organizations prepare for increasingly data-driven and AI-enabled operations, having the right visibility into performance and application behavior is […]
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Virtual IMS User Group | Data Gravity and IBM Z: Bringing Processing to the Data
Zoom - Virtual MeetingAs data volumes grow, they naturally attract applications, services, and processing toward them—a concept commonly referred to as data gravity. In hybrid cloud environments, understanding data gravity has become increasingly […]
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An Introduction to SYSVIEW Performance Management
Monitoring and Managing z/OS and its Subsystems Content by Broadcom Mainframe Software New to SYSVIEW? Discover how to maximize your performance management tool in this foundational session. We will cover SYSVIEW's […]
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Virtual CICS User Group | Latest Update on Security in CICS TS 6.3: The Journey to Zero Trust
Zoom - Virtual MeetingCICS has been advocating zero trust principles and introducing security-focused enhancements since CICS TS 6.1. This session will explore the latest security capabilities available in CICS TS 6.3 and how […]
Risk and Compliance Portfolio for IBM Z Environments, IBM Z Datathon, and more
Rocket Software Launches Rocket® z/Assurance™, a Risk and Compliance Portfolio for IBM Z® Environments IBM Z Datathon: Build AI for Good. In 24 Hours. At Global Scale. Broadcom 2026 North American Mainframe Technical Exchange LTM Collaborates with IBM and Red Hat on...
❓Think You Know Mainframe AI
Mainframes have powered intelligent decisions for decades. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) takes that role further – spotting fraud as transactions happen, anticipating workload demands, helping developers understand legacy code, and strengthening system...
Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor, Advances in AI Enablement for Application Modernization, and more
IBM Unveils Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE BMC Survey Finds 94% Confidence in the Mainframe as Enterprises Scale AI With Human Oversight Rocket Software Advances AI Enablement for Application Modernization Across Mission-Critical...
Partnership to Accelerate Secure AI Deployment, Introduction of New Agentic Modernization, and more
IBM Partners with OpenAI to Accelerate Secure AI Deployment for Enterprises Across Core Operations Kyndryl Introduces New Agentic Modernization Services-As-Software Scaled Through Kyndryl Bridge BMC Achieves the AWS AI Competency Kyndryl Named 2026 CIO 100 Award...
Mainframe Jargon Challenge
Every technical field develops its own language, and the mainframe world is no exception. Whether we’re talking about the alphabet soup of multi-letter acronyms or terms that have been part of the platform for decades, mainframe jargon serves as a kind of shorthand...
AI Ranked as Top Priority, Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, and more
Rocket Software Study Reveals 94% of Financial Services Leaders Rank AI as a Top IT Priority IBM Study: One in Four Malicious Breaches are AI-Enabled, Costing Companies $6 Million on Average IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think...