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Hot Topics from SHARE, watsonx, and more
Hot Topics at 68-year old Mainframe Conference: SHARE 2023 This year’s SHARE conference took place in New Orleans between August 13-18. Created in 1955 as a means of learning about and networking within the mainframe space, the conference continues to draw mainframers...
Modernization in the News
IBM z/OS upgrade will deliver mainframe AI services and support IBM has revealed further details about its imminent launch of a major z/OS upgrade, which will feature an infusion of AI. The operating system upgrade introduces AI support via a feature package called...
Test your SMF knowledge and more with trivia this week!
As usual, this week’s trivia challenge will look back at two Planet Mainframe articles with different themes. This week, our first article will be most relevant for companies that outsource their mainframes to specialist outsourcers. The second should be highly...
Mandates and Talent Shortages are Driving Big Spending on Modernization
IBM Awarded $1B IRS Contract for Modernization of Aging IT Systems IBM announced this week that it is one of four organizations chosen to support the Internal Revenue Service’s massive, seven-year, technology modernization program. The IRS’ aging and...
How Much Do You Know About COBOL?
Whether you love it or hate it, COBOL has been around for a long time, its impact lingering even as its popularity wanes. Created by committee way back in the middle of the last century, COBOL was one of the first high-level computer languages and the business...
Terminal Talk is back and More
Open Mainframe Project Announces Schedule for Open Mainframe Summit Las Vegas on September 11 Registration is now open for the Open Mainframe Summit, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community. The goal of the conference, which...