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Db2 Cyber Recovery: Closing the Recovery Point Gap
Closing the Gap: IBM Z® Cyber Vault and IBM® Db2® Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS® An unplanned outage can devastate business continuity. Enterprises do everything they can to prevent this. With the current abundance of AI and access to domain expertise for everyone,...
Claude Mythos and TN3270 Emulators – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
The mainframe hasn’t changed. The economics of attacking it have. Encryption, authentication, and access controls deserve another look. In early April 2026, Anthropic published a research preview of Claude Mythos, a general-purpose model whose security capabilities...
Mainframe Shield: A Mainframe Security Community
Cybercriminals collaborate. Shouldn't mainframe security professionals do the same? At SHARE 2026, I had the opportunity to sit down with Linda McGrath, Sales Director at Vertali, and Andrew Penlington, Channel Partner Development Manager, to discuss Mainframe Shield,...
Cybersecurity Trivia Challenge: Spot the Security Gap
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this week’s Trivia Challenge puts you in the reviewer’s seat. Each question presents a short scenario involving mainframe data, applications or operations. Your task is to spot the security gap supported by the given...
Parallel Sysplex: Synchronizing In-Memory Data
Keeping in-memory data consistent across multiple LPARs introduces coordination challenges. This design separates local reads from Sysplex-wide updates, using native z/OS services to synchronize changes. Synchronizing In-Memory Data Across a Parallel Sysplex Parallel...
Five Things We Learned About Data Gravity and IBM Z
Enterprise data gets moved around a lot. An application needs it, an analytics team wants a copy, or an AI project needs training data. Each request may make sense on its own. Add them together, though, and there are more pipelines to maintain, more copies to protect,...
Finding Purpose: Reinventing My Mainframe Career
When people think about making a major career leap after more than two decades in one domain, the immediate reaction is often hesitation. After all, why disrupt a comfortable rhythm when you have spent 22 years building deep expertise, credibility, and success? Yet,...
Mainframe under siege: Big Iron needs big-time cyber resilience
Mainframes have always carried a certain reputation. Big iron. Rock solid. Secure by design. The systems quietly humming away in the corner while the rest of IT panicked about the latest breach or ransomware headline. For a long time, that reputation was deserved....
IBM Expands Its Digital Banking Infrastructure, Agentic AI on the Mainframe, and more
Kyndryl Report: As AI Broadens Modernization Agenda, Leaders Prioritize Business Outcomes Over Replacing Legacy Systems IBM Expands Its Digital Banking Infrastructure with Swift Integration and Digital Asset Haven On-Premises Rocket Software Advances Governed, Agentic...
Inside IBM’s 2026 z/Resilience Conference: What Mainframers Should Know
In this first-person piece, Robi Singh shares what he learned in Rome about the changing demands of mainframe resilience—from regulation and cyber recovery to GDPS, AI, and quantum-safe security.The z/Resilience Conference is known for bringing together mainframe...
