Understanding how an Input Message sent by an IMS Connect Client to IMS Connect works when OTMA NAKs the Input Message IMS Connect (ICON) is the TCP/IP gateway for IMS. So, besides running the traditional IMS transactions on z/OS, an IMS programmer/database...
It's probably 9 out of 10 times that things like BITCOIN and such other cryptocurrencies come to people’s mind when they hear the term "BLOCKCHAIN". And, why not? BITCOIN was what resulted in the Blockchain technology hogging the limelight in the modern digital...
In today’s business world, the pressure to deliver faster to be "in the business", the importance to reduce outages and the time to solve any issues to have business applications available 24x7, increase exponentially. Mobile and internet penetration in the daily...
A new IBM offering IBM Z JCL Expert was just announced, learn more here. In this blog you will learn about the client challenges that this new offering aims to mitigate, what’s changing, why should you act now, how IBM and this offering can help,...
Introduction Back in March, I was proud to highlight the IBM announcement of a new IBM offering IBM Z JCL Expert in this blog, where I highlighted the client challenges that this new offering aims to mitigate, what’s changing, why should you...
Since the publication of Zowe gets Chatty a few months ago, the Zowe open community has made great progress. Watch for a technical preview of the new capabilities in 4Q 2022. Key to any software’s success is listening to our consumers and unlocking the...
IBM just announced a new release of IBM Z JCL Expert, it is the version 1.2, see related announcement here. With this new release the product is enriched in order to better fit your environment with new checks available, new out-of-the-box integration and a new...
Introduction The increasingly hybrid and complex application landscape that spans from distributed to Z is accelerating the challenges that CIOs and IT operations must deal with to maintain the health and resiliency of their hybrid applications and...
The acronym “SaaS” first appeared in 2001 as a revolutionary concept. Now, Gartner predicts the SaaS market will reach $116B in 2020. As SaaS concepts are brought to the mainframe, what will the market look like in another 20 years? What if you could dynamically and...
The massive benefits that machine learning can provide are well documented by this point, yet many organizations are still failing to take advantage of the predictive technology while others are failing to derive the value that vendors have promised.1 This is...
