AI Month
Presented by Rocket Software
5 Mainframe Performance Tuning Examples That Deliver Quantifiable Value
Mainframe performance tuning does not always require a bigger budget, and lower resource consumption does not always produce a smaller bill. The real opportunity for optimizing mainframe business value lies in understanding where tuning creates usable capacity,...
❓ROI, Business Case, and Tuning for Value: Round Two
This month at Planet Mainframe Trivia, we've been exploring how organizations maximize the value of their mainframe investments. Creating value doesn't end once a project is approved. Organizations continually look for ways to improve performance, optimize resources,...
Exploring the Latest Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter: Practical Guidance for Modern Mainframe Shops
What happens when an IMS logger fills up in production? How do you prepare for z/OS 3.2? Is Coupling Facility encryption worth the effort? And what does AI really mean for the future of the mainframe workforce? The latest issue of Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter tackles...
Think 2026, Vertica Acquisition, and more
Think 2026: IBM Positions Mainframe Environments as Governed AI Infrastructure Rocket Software Completes Acquisition of Vertica®, Expanding High-Performance Analytics and AI for Mission-Critical Systems Kyndryl unveils agentic AI capability that proactively prevents...
z/OS UNIX Tuning: What New USS Practitioners Should Know
This article offers a practical USS tuning primer for new mainframers, developers moving into z/OS UNIX, and technical leaders who need to understand the basics before changing system settings.z/OS UNIX tuning can feel familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. USS...
Expertise in a Hoodie: Uwe Graf is The Modern Mainframe Nerd
Uwe Graf Head of ConsultingEasiRun Europa GmbH Hesse, GermanyThis profile features Uwe Graf, one of the top four 2026 Influential Mainframers in the class of 2026.If you ask Uwe Graf to describe himself, he won’t start with a list of certifications or corporate...
How Gil Peleg Is Winning VC Backing for Mainframe AI
Gil Peleg Co-founder, CEOGeniez AI London, England, United KingdomThis article features Gil Peleg, one of the top four 2026 Influential Mainframers.While others try to modernize around the mainframe, Gil Peleg is building AI inside it. VCs are paying attention. ...
Modernizing the Mainframe Without Losing Knowledge
Bridging JCL and APIs in Mainframe Modernization Mainframe development sits between two realities. On one side, there is the traditional world of JCL, structured batch processes, and deterministic workflows. On the other, we see the rise of API-driven automation,...
AI Month
Presented by Rocket Software
Mainframe AI Agents: The Interns Who Never Sleep
A conversation with BMC Anthony Doroand Leah Sokalov.A Knowledge Problem That Can’t Wait Amanda Hendly, Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe, met with Distinguished Engineer Anthony Doro and Senior Product Manager Leah Sokalov, both from BMC. The conversation focused...
Mainframes: The AI Glow-Up
Legacy mainframes remain one of the most underestimated parts of enterprise architecture in large-scale organizations. Every second, they process thousands of transactions, store data, and handle operations. There are still many businesses, including data-critical...
Data Integrity Award Winners, Workload Automation in Industry Report, and more
IBM Announces New Platform for Financial Institutions and Regulated Enterprises Entering the Digital Asset Economy Precisely Announces 2025 Data Integrity Award Winners Driving AI Innovation, Business Impact, and Societal Good BMC Selected as Overall Leader for...
The Biggest Plot Twist? AI is Happening on the Mainframe
Mainframes Bring AI to the Data When the general public hears“mainframe,” they may picture a massive machine from the early days of computing, a relic of a bygone era. However, we know that perception is flawed. The mainframe isn’t a museum piece; it’s the...
🎧 Today’s Modernization is AI and Mainframes – featuring Venkat Balabhadrapatruni
In a Planet Mainframe podcast, Amanda Hendley, Managing Editor at Planet Mainframe, sat down with Venkat Balabhadrapatruni, a solution architect at Broadcom Software and 2025 IBM Champion. They discussed the company’s strategy for bringing modern AI capabilities to...
Is Your AI Modernization Tool a Match? Take the Quiz
A 5-Minute Quiz to Cut Through the Hype Mainframes remain pillars of the global digital economy, clearing transactions, securing data, and keeping industries like banking, insurance, and healthcare running 24/7. While the hardware stays rock-solid, the legacy...
The Spectrum of Trust: How Mainframers Are Embracing Agentic AI
A few years ago, the idea of letting artificial intelligence (AI) tweak a production mainframe system on its own would’ve made even the most daring system programmer break out in a cold sweat. We would have heard, “Let the machine make the change? Not on my watch.” ...
Mainframe Artificial Intelligence Quiz
At Planet Mainframe, we’re spending the month of November focusing on AI and the mainframe. Once viewed as separate worlds, AI and IBM Z now work hand in hand to deliver real-time insights, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation across enterprise-scale...
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Accelerating Mainframe Efficiency: Development and Testing Webinar
Zoom - Virtual MeetingUnlock the power of instantly available mainframe resources to revolutionize mainframe delivery. The third session in the PopUp Persona Webinar series reveals how application developers, software engineers, and QA teams […]
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Virtual IMS User Group | Data Gravity and IBM Z: Bringing Processing to the Data
Zoom - Virtual MeetingAs data volumes grow, they naturally attract applications, services, and processing toward them—a concept commonly referred to as data gravity. In hybrid cloud environments, understanding data gravity has become increasingly […]
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Virtual CICS User Group | Latest Update on Security in CICS TS 6.3: The Journey to Zero Trust
Zoom - Virtual MeetingCICS has been advocating zero trust principles and introducing security-focused enhancements since CICS TS 6.1. This session will explore the latest security capabilities available in CICS TS 6.3 and how […]
AI Ranked as Top Priority, Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, and more
Rocket Software Study Reveals 94% of Financial Services Leaders Rank AI as a Top IT Priority IBM Study: One in Four Malicious Breaches are AI-Enabled, Costing Companies $6 Million on Average IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think...
❓Mainframes at the Movies
With summer blockbuster season upon us, it’s time to turn our attention away from the workaday world of the datacenter to its fictional representation. Mainframes have made memorable appearances on both the big and small screen for decades—sometimes portrayed as...
Izzi Software Launches Z/XDC on Visual Studio Code to Speed Adoption and Boost Mainframe Debugging for the Future
New expansion to top debugging now available, integrating seamlessly into existing workflows and supporting young programmers by improving accessibility MINNEAPOLIS, August 3, 2026 — Izzi Software, owner of ColeSoft, the leading provider of debugging solutions for IBM...
What to Expect at SHARE Pittsburgh
With SHARE Pittsburgh approaching, SHARE President Art Gutowski joined Planet Mainframe to talk about what attendees can expect—and why the conference remains valuable for both newcomers and longtime mainframe professionals. Gutowski is nearing the end of his...
Real-Time Mainframe Software Visibility, SHARE Pittsburgh 2026, and more
BMC Brings Governed AI Agents to Enterprise Workflows and Mainframe Operations Precisely Delivers Real-Time Mainframe Software Visibility to the ServiceNow AI Platform IBM Reports Infrastructure Revenue Down 7 Percent SHARE Pittsburgh 2026BMC Brings Governed AI Agents...
What the New IBM z17 Rack-Mount Systems Bring to the Table
The z17 goes small, and I think that’s rather clever. On July 7, 2026, IBM announced new configurations of the z17, and for the first time ever, you can now get a rack-mount option right across the Z and LinuxONE portfolio. Not a new processor, not a new architecture,...