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Mainframe Pioneers: John von Neumann

Mainframe Pioneers: John von Neumann

At the Planet Mainframe trivia challenge, we’re always up for a bit of mainframe pioneer history! Today we’re looking at the life of John von Neumann (1903–1957), a brilliant and versatile thinker whose work touched many areas of science and technology.  Born in...

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How to solve the Data Privacy issue for test data

How to solve the Data Privacy issue for test data

You may be aware of data privacy regulations such as Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or California’s CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) that, among other things, ban you from using production data with personally identifiable information, such...

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Why IBM Z Is Fit for Business Purpose

Why IBM Z Is Fit for Business Purpose

Some people say that IBM Z is “fit for purpose” but I believe a better description is that it’s fit for business purpose. The purpose of Z is business—because it’s reliable, efficient, and secure. This is an important distinction to make because at...

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Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes

Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes

One of the constant struggles with Db2 development, and indeed developing for any relational DBMS, is designing and creating appropriate indexes. Perhaps the most important thing you can do to assure optimal application performance when accessing data in a...

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Provision on Demand Part 2: IBM and Red Hat Ansible

Provision on Demand Part 2: IBM and Red Hat Ansible

Check out part one: What is Provisioning? to get caught up. Welcome back for part two of this provisioning automation blog series. In this installment we will be breaking down the opportunities for automated provisioning across the Z ecosystem. For clients that have...

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Mainframe News for You

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Utah’s Office of Recovery Services Moves from COBOL to Cloud in 18 Months Utah’s Office of Recovery Services (ORS) is responsible for both collecting child support payments across the state and ensuring public funds are used appropriately. For 24 years it has relied...

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History of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

History of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

For a long time, mainframes seemed like a safe room where a company’s most precious data possessions would be secure. But while mainframes still present unique challenges to bad actors, the days of mainframe impenetrability are most definitely over. Ever since the...

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Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority and More

Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority to Accelerate and De-risk Modernization in Critical Tax Infrastructure Kyndryl, IBM’s managed infrastructure services business spin-off, has signed an agreement to manage a proportion of HMRC’s (His Majesty’s Revenue and...

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Mainframe Security Trivia

Mainframe Security Trivia

For a long time, the perception that mainframes are inherently secure probably made life quite a bit easier for hackers than it really needed to be.  Back in the pre-internet world, corporations could probably afford to treat mainframe security as an...

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Db2 Trivia: The Basics

Db2 Trivia: The Basics

While databases may not be the sexiest segment of IT history, they are inarguably the backbone of modern information systems. With that in mind, we’re devoting our trivia challenge this week to the enduring data management technology that is Db2. This massively...

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