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Influential Mainframer – Joe Winchester
This month, Planet Mainframe celebrates influential mainframers nominated by the community. Today, we recognize a returning honoree whose deep technical expertise and humor build and sustain mainframe community engagement. Joe Winchester Senior Technical Staff Manager...
Influential Mainframer – Amit Sharma
This month, Planet Mainframe celebrates influential mainframers nominated by the community. Today, we spotlight a global educator, content creator, and community connector whose work demystifies mainframe technology for audiences worldwide. Amit Sharma Founder, Tech...
Scaling Up Credit Card Authorizations Volume with CICS API
Large banks and global payments processing companies specializing in commercial transactions processing need to substantially scale the volume of credit card authorizations for mobile and web point of service applications. Typically, their core transaction systems are...
How to prevent job failures through advanced JCL checking and more
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,...
Mainframe News Out There
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: Of Wildcards, Regular Expressions and Mainframe Security An interesting article the...
Real-time runtime metrics collection multiprocessor JVM monitoring (APAR PJ46608)
PJ46275 provided the ability for the tpfrtmc offline utility to monitor JVM data from a single z/TPF processor. PJ46608 provides the ability for the tpfrtmc offline utility to monitor JVM data from up to 10 z/TPF processors. As...
When Catastrophe Strikes, Recover Data With Ease
This blog focuses on the dire circumstances of a catastrophic recovery involving the entire system. There is a companion blog, Recover Quickly With Surgical Precision, that focuses on isolated recovery from the IBM Z Cyber Vault. The IBM Z Cyber Vault solution for...
Db2 User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
A user-defined function, or UDF for short, enables you to customize Db2 to your shop's requirements. It is a very powerful feature that can be used to add procedural functionality, coded by the user, to Db2. The UDF, once coded and implemented...
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Virtual MeetingMainframe data is no longer a "black box." As organizations push for real-time insights and seamless hybrid cloud integration, the ability to access CICS-managed data via modern APIs has become […]
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You’ve never mainframed like this : Navigating the BMC AMI DevX Platform to Understand Code Faster Using AI
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Mainframe News to Close Out the Year
Broadcom Completes Acquisition of VMware, Moves to Subscription Model Having completed its acquisition of VMware, Inc, Broadcom Inc., a provider of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, is moving forward with plans to enable enterprise customers to...
Evolution of the Mainframe
In 2023, the mainframe is the central technology of the biggest businesses on earth, but they also have a long and storied history. They’ve been around long enough, in fact, to have had a cameo appearance in the show Mad Men (shout out to the IBM/360). But...
Mainframe News This Month
VirtualZ Computing Raises $4.9 Million to Enable Enterprise Innovation With Mainframe Data VirtualZ Computing, the only woman-founded mainframe company, has announced $2.2 million in seed financing, bringing the total capital raised to $4.9 million. The capital...
Where do you fit on the scale of novice to expert?
How well do you know mainframes? Here is a quick test to gauge where you fit on the scale of novice to expert when it comes to knowing your mainframe trivia. Give it your best shot.
Navigating AI and More
IBM Unveils watsonx.governance to Help Businesses Navigate AI Enterprises use AI to solve problems, but businesses are also finding that AI has ushered in a whole new murky world of risks. IBM has announced that watsonx.governance will be released in early December to...
Do you know your Linux Trivia?
As one of the most popular operating systems on the planet, we are all living in a Linux world. All of the world’s top 500 supercomputers run Linux, not to mention our cars, phones, and home appliances. This trusty OS has now been around for a few decades, which in...