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....
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...
The z17 goes small, and I think that’s rather clever. On July 7, 2026, IBM announced new configurations of the z17, and for the first time ever, you can now get a rack-mount option right across the Z and LinuxONE portfolio. Not a new processor, not a new architecture,...