Back in 2014, I posted an entry to this blog on the topic of getting to universal table spaces from non-universal table spaces. In that entry, I noted that there was an online path (ALTER followed by online REORG) for getting from a “classic” partition…
Tuesday April 5, 2022 was a great day to be part of the mainframe community. As you may have seen on the wire, that was the day IBM “unveiled IBM® z16™, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized...
I have spent my career in the mainframe computing space. It's a strange and insular world. And it's shrinking a little each day, as the global mainframe workforce sees skilled workers retiring, transitioning to other roles, sometimes even dying, without a...
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: Digitization and Modernization Heads Up: Start With Applications Interesting article by...
Have you been lost in the massive IBM Z learning materials and don't know where to start? Are you struggling to find easy-to-consume IBM Z learning courses? Do you want simple but well-organized IBM Z learning plans? It's time to start your IBM Z learning journey and...
Delivering high quality service to end users is the primary mission of IT organizations. The importance of this imperative is steadily increasing as the world becomes ever more in entrenched in a technology driven digital economy. Thankfully, more tools than ever...
My mac had turned into a bit of a mess. I had ssh private keys (that use Passphrases of course!) in a variety of places and I wasn’t very happy about it. I have several different servers that I connect to. There are a few GitHub systems, a Linux system, and of course...
Sometimes, a DBA will email me a question about Db2 for z/OS, and I’ll respond in a pretty comprehensive way, and I’ll look at that outbound message and think to myself, “Hmm. I may have written most of a blog entry there.” This is one of those ca…
Looking to start your open-source contribution journey? The Open Mainframe Project's Mentorship Program is announcing it's 2022 Summer Mentorship, which will start in June until August of 2022. So far, they have 11 mentorships for projects ranging from COBOL...
As a Db2 consultant and regular blogger I often receive questions about technical things, but also on strategy and industry trends. I try to help but I always make it clear when answering that I cannot predict the future, only make educated guesses… …
