Planet Mainframe

Provision On Demand Part 3: The Future of Automated Provisioning on z/OS

Dec 15, 2021
Travis Biro
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The Future of Automated Provisioning on z/OS Welcome back for part three of this provisioning automation blog series. In this installment we wanted to discuss the suggested direction customers should be considering when automating middleware provisioning on z/OS. When defining…

DB2

Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes

Dec 13, 2021
Craig Mullins
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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 ...

Management

Provision on Demand Part 2: IBM and Red Hat Ansible

Dec 10, 2021
Travis Biro
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Check out part one: What is Provisioning? to get caught up. Welcome back for part two of this provisioning automation blog series.…

Management

Provision On Demand

Dec 8, 2021
Travis Biro
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Part One: What is Provisioning? It's no secret that in this age of digital transformation businesses are looking to build…

Mainframe News Out There

Nov 30, 2021
Admin
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Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough…

VSAM

Seamless VSAM data transfer between Host & PC

VSAM files are widely used in CICS applications and it contains critical information with a huge data set. It is…

Security

Four Essential Features for a Database Security Strategy to Take on a Growing Threat Landscape

Nov 11, 2021
Amy Dall
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For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams…

Security

CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP

Nov 3, 2021
Paul Newton
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In RACF security terminology, CICS is a resource manager. Resource manager security can be enabled or disabled. Dallas Z ISV…

DB2

Db2 SQL PL book as PDF and many useful doc links

Tell the world about Db2 documentationYesterday was one of those days when I, again, worked as information broker. I received a question, asked around myself, passed on information that I learned, and finally handed back an answer to the originator. Wi...