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Shelly Meierarend: “Where You Are From Does Not Limit How Far You Can Go”
Shelly J. Meierarend, PMP IBM Z and LinuxONE Client and Academic Global Skills LeaderIBM Z Ecosystem – InfrastructureIBM Buford, Georgia, United StatesThis article features Shelly J. Meierarend, one of the top four 2026 Influential Mainframers.Editor’s Note: We often...
Building Pathways in Latin America: Paolo Enrique Garcia Ramos and the Rise of “New to Z”
Paolo Enrique Garcia Ramos Mainframe Chief, Interbank Lima, PeruThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Paolo Enrique Garcia Ramos, the future of the mainframe depends on who gets access to it. With 18 years of experience in...
Arcati 2026 | Economics, Cost, and Value
Purpose: How organizations justify investment In the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, economic considerations appear to be a boundary condition rather than a primary driver of platform change. Cost influences timing and scope, but it does not dominate strategy...
Arcati 2026 | Security, Risk, and Resilience
Security and risk management remain central to how organizations operate and evolve their mainframe environments. In the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, respondents describe security as an embedded operational discipline that shapes priorities, tooling, and...
Arcati 2026 | Hybrid Integration and Architecture
The 2025 Arcati report established that hybrid architecture had become the dominant model for organizations running IBM Z. The new 2026 survey reinforces that conclusion and advances it. Across the 2026 responses, the mainframe is consistently described as operating...
Arcati 2026 | Workforce and Operating Constraints
Mainframe modernization, upgrade cadence, and tooling decisions are shaped as much by workforce structure as by technology. The 2026 survey reflects a notable shift in respondent mix while reinforcing continuity in operating models. Importantly, the 2026 workforce...
Arcati 2026 | Platform Currency & Technical Posture
How is mainframe usage changing — and what does that tell us? Across the 2026 survey, respondents report moderate growth or stable mainframe usage, with a smaller group indicating declines. Several forward-looking questions were introduced in 2025 to enhance...
Arcati 2026 | Platform Scale, Capacity, and Trajectory
Maintaining and Modernizing Core Mainframe Platforms Continuing with questions introduced in 2025, the 2026 survey indicates that organizations deliberately maintain platform currency. Most respondents report operating on current or near-current versions of z/OS;...
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Hide your privates
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...
Recover Quickly With Surgical Precision
Resiliency is an integral part of the IBM Z platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault solution is a concept for addressing data corruption whether through malicious intent, human error or failure of hardware or software. It provides an air gapped backup of the operating...
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...
Four Essential Features for a Database Security Strategy to Take on a Growing Threat Landscape
For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams have tried to funnel every application into using those databases. Today, as the pressure to innovate while keeping costs low...
CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP
In RACF security terminology, CICS is a resource manager. Resource manager security can be enabled or disabled. Dallas Z ISV RDP provided CICS security is disabled. Why? CICS manages many resources where enabling security requires decisions about which specific CICS...
Cyber security and cyber resiliency for financial institutions (and everyone else)
For everyone with a mainframe, cyber security and cyber resiliency are important. For financial institutions, a major breach could, potentially, not only lead to the company going out of business, but, as we saw in 2008, could also lead to significant parts of the...
Ill winds: Why Mainframe Security Should be Heading Your 2021 Priorities List
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
Zero Trust Architecture Mobilizes Organizations to Safeguard Mainframe
Tried and true, the mainframe is here to stay as the backbone of our digital economy. Even as we advance to include new storage systems, all of our data exists on a mainframe somewhere. In fact, by 2030, there will be 40 trillion mobile transactions per day and the...
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NEWS – New Survey Findings, New FlashSystem Portfolio, and more
New Rocket Software Survey Finds 69% of IT Leaders Report Data Security Keeps Them Up at Night Kyndryl Named a Leader in 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Mainframe Modernization IBM Introduces Autonomous Storage with New FlashSystem Portfolio Powered by Agentic AI...
❓2026 Arcati Survey Trivia
Welcome to this week’s Planet Mainframe trivia quiz! On the heels of the 2026 Arcati Survey Results release, this round of trivia focuses on changes underway. Workforce demographics are shifting, new generations are entering mainframe computing fields (and through...
Business-Driven Automation, AI Confidence Outpaces Readiness, and more
BMC Advances Business-Driven Automation and Mainframe Transformation with AI-Powered Innovations Precisely’s State of Data Integrity and AI Readiness Study: AI Confidence Outpaces Readiness Rocket Software to Acquire Vertica Analytics Database Platform from OpenText...
❓Python Programming Trivia
We often describe Python as a “modern” language, but its story spans decades of technological change, cultural shifts, and unexpected platforms. What began as a small side project in the Netherlands evolved into one of the most widely used programming languages in the...
NEWS – Rocket Software and K2view Partnership, 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice, and more
IBM Introduces New Software to Address Growing Digital Sovereignty Imperative Rocket Software and K2view Partner to Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with Governed, AI-Ready Test Data for Testing, Analytics, and AI BMC is recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™...
❓Mainframe Professional Skills Trivia
Our last trivia quiz explored the legacy of mainframe pioneers, and this week we’re going to continue looking into the lineage of skills in mainframe professional practice, examining how early design and operational decisions shaped the way mainframe expertise is...