With the quick-paced advances in tech today, managing IT well is crucial. One key factor in top-notch IT plans is observability. But what does observability mean exactly in today's IT terms? How can it help people like tech bosses, DevOps techs, and other...
What people want in a career has remained fundamentally unchanged for the last 50 years. In a Gallup poll of workforce trends, pay remains the number one consideration. Additionally, people want work-life balance, job stability, interesting work, and opportunities for...
My career in tech was inspired by playing video games. Some of my earliest memories involve playing games like Roller Coaster Tycoon on Windows ‘95, and Pokémon Yellow on the Game Boy Color. As I was fascinated by video games and wanted to learn how they were created,...
Written by: Tammy Faucher Our team at Broadcom takes immense pride in collaborating with our exceptional customers and partners to overcome some of the most challenging obstacles in IT. Tangible examples of this are the annual Mainframe Technical Exchanges (MTEs)....
Modern mainframe organizations recognize the persistent shortage of external, mainframe-skilled personnel and ensure long-term mainframe workforce vitality and efficacy by building internal mainframe talent pools. The synergy of workforce succession planning,...
If you have journeyed out for a Conference lately or joined virtually, you have likely seen that there were several sessions addressing the same mainframe skills gap, and how companies can get a leg up on attracting and retaining talent. I still see many...
Written by: Lauren Valenti A new InfoTech Research Report found that Broadcom’s education programs lead the industry by scoring “exemplary” in every category assessed. Shortly after, Broadcom Mainframe Software was also recognized as the “Best Learning Team”...
Exciting news for the mainframe community! Today marks the official launch of the Planet Mainframe Job Board, an online portal dedicated exclusively to employers and professionals in the mainframe industry. It's live now at Jobs.PlanetMainframe.com, and it's more than...
Bridging the Gap Pundits have been ringing mainframe technology’s death knell since the early 1990’s, but industry needs for information security and big data computing power have kept mainframes very much alive. Mainframes continue to be the workhorse for...
ASRA Abend Code In discussing aspects of CICS Command level Programming, have you ever wondered why a Program Interrupt (S0C4, S0C7) results in an ASRA Abend code? Firstly, it is important to remember that the middle 2 characters of every Abend code tells us who...
