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Upcoming Career Fair and Women in Tech

Upcoming Career Fair and Women in Tech

Virtual IBM Z Career Fairs in April If you’re looking for work in a mainframe role, make sure to register for your local upcoming IBM Z Computing Career Fair, sponsored by IBM in partnership with CareerEco.  Candidates will have the opportunity to meet with...

Let’s meet your most influential mainframers

Let’s meet your most influential mainframers

Welcome to the History and People of Mainframe, a month-long celebration honoring remarkable individuals shaping the modern landscape of mainframe technology. This month, we’ll explore mainframe technology's past, present, and future. Coinciding with the 60th...

Hybrid Cloud Trivia

Hybrid Cloud Trivia

You don’t have to know much about mainframes to understand that they don’t exist in the splendid isolation of the past, and the last decade has brought the mainframe into a whole new level of connectivity.  For many businesses, embracing the modern mainframe...

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Essential z/OS Performance Tuning Workshop

Virtual Meeting

Join Scott Chapman in this 4-day z/OS Performance Tuning Essentials Workshop that focuses on the foundational terminology, metrics, and practices necessary to measure, understand, and improve z/OS system performance. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors driving performance and […]

Introducing Syncsort™ Storage Management

Recently, Precisely added the Storage Management solutions from DTS Software to our product lineup.  These products represent a significant addition to Precisely’s already robust IBM Z software portfolio. The newly […]

IDUG EMEA 2025

Dusseldorf, Germany

IDUG will be taking place in Dusseldorf for the 2025 EMEA Db2 Tech Conference! Experience the custom Solution Center, workshops & hands-on labs, IBM’s certification & badging opportunities, as well […]

Mainframe Lingo Trivia

Mainframe Lingo Trivia

MIPS, CPUs, CRT, VTAM….the world of mainframes is absolutely notorious for the obscure lingo. A conversation between two mainframers talking mainframe-speak is sure to be entirely impenetrable to an outsider. It could be seen as a barrier (it probably is a barrier for...

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Pioneering Mainframer – Erich Bloch

Pioneering Mainframer – Erich Bloch

There’s just something about the autumnal season that makes us want to look back. This week’s Trivia Challenge is going to do just that, paying tribute to a pioneering mainframer who passed away eight years ago at the age of 91. The only child of a German-Jewish...

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All Things Cyber Security

All Things Cyber Security

October may be the month of falling leaves and pumpkin spice, but it is also the time when we turn our attention to all things cybersecurity. And, in the context of mainframe cybersecurity, observability is an essential piece of the puzzle.  By maintaining...

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Cyber Security Awareness Trivia

Cyber Security Awareness Trivia

October is Cyber Security Awareness month at Planet Mainframe, so over here at Trivia Challenge we’ll be focusing our trivia topics on the ever-evolving topic of mainframes and cybersecurity. Mainframes have long been the backbone of critical industries, particularly...

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