For more than four decades, Db2 has been a cornerstone of enterprise data management—but its roots stretch back even further, to IBM research in the 1970s and the early development of the relational database model and SQL. Along the way, Db2 evolved from a new...
The US celebrates Halloween annually on October 31 with candy, costumes, and ghost stories. In celebration, this week's trivia is spook-tacular! For our final Trivia Challenge of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re taking a Halloween tour of the things that...
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...
It’s AI month at Planet Mainframe, and for Round Two of our Trivia Challenge, we’re turning to agentic AI. On the mainframe, this emerging technology is moving beyond answering questions and generating code. Agents can interpret goals, reason through multi-step...
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...
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...
With summer blockbuster season upon us, it’s time to turn our attention away from the workaday world of the datacenter to its fictional representation. Mainframes have made memorable appearances on both the big and small screen for decades—sometimes portrayed as...
This month at Planet Mainframe Trivia, we've been exploring how organizations maximize the value of their mainframe investments. Creating value doesn't end once a project is approved. Organizations continually look for ways to improve performance, optimize resources,...
For July’s Planet Mainframe Trivia Quizzes, we're exploring the fundamentals of measuring value and making informed technology decisions. Whether the investment involves modernizing a mainframe environment, optimizing workloads, or deploying new enterprise...
This week at Planet Mainframe Trivia we’re dipping back into the deep history of computing with a quiz on the work of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert—two of the most influential pioneers in the history of computing. Their work helped move electronic computers from...
