Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started its Own Culture War?
I have spent my career in the mainframe computing space. It's a strange and insular world. And it's shrinking a…
CFO Thoughts on Z Day 2022
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…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough…
Boost your mainframe skills for free
Have you been lost in the massive IBM Z learning materials and don't know where to start? Are you struggling…
Monitors, Analytics, and AI … Oh My!
Delivering high quality service to end users is the primary mission of IT organizations. The importance of this imperative is steadily…
Hide your privates
My mac had turned into a bit of a mess. I had ssh private keys (that use Passphrases of course!)…
Db2 for z/OS: Answering Some Questions About DBATs (i.e., DDF Threads)
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...
Open Source, Mainframe and Mentorship
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…
Best practices for successful support cases
Successful support casesIn my day job, I work with latest technology and cloud services. In addition, I work with customers / users and help them succeed. And in my private life, I also use technical equipment. In all three of these scenarios, mostly i...
Moving from IMS to Db2?
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... ...
z/OS Containers – Understanding z/OS Automation
In my last blog, I gave an overview about Kubernetes and highlighted how Kubernetes orchestrates application deployments. There are certainly much…