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Defining the Standard: Craig Mullins and a Career Shaping Db2 Expertise
Craig Mullins President & Principal Consultant, Mullins Consulting, Inc. Sugar Land, Texas, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Craig Mullins, influence is built through consistency. With more than three decades of...
Scaling Modernization from the Inside: Rosalind Radcliffe’s Work to Make Transformation Real
Rosalind Radcliffe IBM Fellow, CTO, Z Ecosystem, IBM Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Rosalind Radcliffe, modernization is not defined by strategy decks or future-state architecture...
Richelle Anne Craw: Open Source, Advocacy, and the Next-Gen Mainframe
Richelle Anne Craw Software EngineerBeta Systems Software Linz, AustriaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Richelle Anne Craw is the ultimate "multi-hyphenate" influencer: speaker, instructor, mentor, podcaster, and coder....
Opening Access Through Innovation: Emma Skovgård’s Approach to Mainframe Security and Learning
Emma Skovgård IT Security Engineer, Danske BankFounder, dinoframe.io Copenhagen, DenmarkThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Emma Skovgård, the path into the mainframe ecosystem has been anything but traditional, but that...
Saurabh Banerjee: Scaling Mainframe Modernization with WhatsApp
Saurabh Banerjee Senior Manager, Mainframe Innovation and EngineeringEnsono Pune Division, Maharashtra, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Engineering a Human-Centric Mainframe Modernization In today’s parlance,...
Building a Global Learning Engine: Amit Sharma’s Relentless Commitment to Access
Amit Sharma Senior IBM i Developer at Programmers.ioContent Creator – Tech Sharmit (YouTube) Jaipur, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Amit Sharma, the mission has never been about visibility. It has always been...
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. ...
▶️ Not Nostalgia. Not Hype. Just Data: Mainframe Trends 2026
At SHARE Orlando, Amanda Hendley, Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe, shared insights from the 2026 annual Arcati survey. She cut through the industry hype to focus on what the data say about the current state of the platform. The overarching theme? While the core...
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Smarter Tech Decisions: Why “and” Wins Over “or”
In technology, we often present choices as binary decisions: replace or keep, mainframe or cloud. But what if this either/or mindset is limiting our potential? This realization struck me through an unexpected source: my home security system. A Lesson in Integration...
Mainframe Security in 2025: Countering New Threats, Using AI, and Getting the Basics Right
Introduction As we moved into 2025, two trends were front of mind for many of our clients: their continued efforts to achieve a Zero Trust security stance in the face of an evolving threat landscape, and the unstoppable rise of artificial intelligence – countering the...
The “Experience Required” Paradox: Companies Can’t Fill Roles, Workers Shut Out
This article originally appeared in Forbes on February 5, 2025. Reposted with permission. Breaking into a cybersecurity career has never been easy and today it’s more competitive than ever. At the same time, there is a well-documented cybersecurity talent shortage,...
The good, the bad and the ugly: generative AI and cybersecurity
Putting the AI into mAInframe security Artificial intelligence can be as much a help as a threat: a powerful tool in the hands of either the good, the bad or the ugly. Today’s threat landscape and cybersecurity requirements are more complex and challenging than ever....
Mainframes: Silent Giants of the Digital Era
In the whirlwind of technological advancements, it's easy to overlook the foundational pillars that support our digital world. Mainframes, often perceived as relics of a bygone era, continue to play a pivotal role in orchestrating the symphony of modern data. These...
Thoughts from a Mainframe on Halloween
It was a dark and stormy night in the data center. 🌩️ The fans hummed softly, and the LEDs blinked like little ghosts in the darkness. I had experienced many Halloween nights as a mainframe, but this one was different. There was an eerie presence in the air — and it...
Defense against the dark arts — mainframe security
Mainframers who thought the mainframe was too difficult a platform to hack are few and far between these days. However, mainframes can be hacked, and they are being hacked.In terms of security, what spells, incantations, and practices should organizations employ to...
Advancing Mainframe Security with Ethical Mainframe Hacking
Written by: David Bruce Put on your hoodie and head for a darkened room! Oh. Wait. Sorry, that’s just the movie version. Despite the stereotype, hackers are real, and they’re dangerous! It’s now their full-time job and they are doing it well. In July, ransomware...
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Virtual CICS User Group | May 12, 2026 | CICS Resilience & Optimization: From Flow Intelligence to Data Recovery
Zoom - Virtual MeetingCICS Resilience & Optimization: From Flow Intelligence to Data Recovery May 12, 2026 This CICS Session is a double feature and will include two great sessions: Mastering System Synergy: A […]
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Virtual CICS User Group: Unlocking Mainframe Knowledge: Using AI to Support CICS Professionals
Zoom - Virtual MeetingMany organizations rely on large CICS applications where critical knowledge is buried in legacy code and documentation. This session explores how AI can help MF CICS professionals quickly understand applications, […]
❓Influential Mainframer Trivia: Bob Evans
At Planet Mainframe, April is dedicated to honoring influential mainframers past and present. This week’s quiz dives into the life and times of Bob Evans (1927–2004), who played a central role in shaping modern enterprise computing during his career at IBM. ...
NEWS – Kyndryl Readiness Report, Precisely and Matillion Partnership, and more
Kyndryl Readiness Report reveals misalignment between infrastructure investment and preparedness for converging modernization demands Precisely and Matillion Partner to Accelerate Data Modernization and Agentic AI Readiness IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent,...
Open Tools, Modern Workflows: A Next-Gen Mainframe Quiz
This week, our Planet Mainframe quiz continues the “Next-Gen Mainframe” theme. For decades, mainframe development operated in its own world—but as the broader industry converged on open-source tooling, Git-based collaboration, and cloud-style DevOps pipelines, the...
NEWS – 2026 X-Force Threat Index, Expanded Data Integrity Suite, and more
IBM 2026 X-Force Threat Index: AI-Driven Attacks are Escalating as Basic Security Gaps Leave Enterprises Exposed Precisely Expands Data Integrity Suite with New AI Agents for Enhanced Data Quality, Data Enrichment, and Location Intelligence BMC Signs Five-Year...
❓ Hybrid by Design: The Next-Gen Mainframe Quiz
If you’ve been in the mainframe ecosystem for any time at all, you’ll know that the mainframe has long been associated with stability and staying power. But today’s conversation increasingly centers on the evolution of the next-gen mainframe, and how it fits into...
NEWS – New Survey Findings, New FlashSystem Portfolio, and more
New Rocket Software Survey Finds 69% of IT Leaders Report Data Security Keeps Them Up at Night Kyndryl Named a Leader in 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Mainframe Modernization IBM Introduces Autonomous Storage with New FlashSystem Portfolio Powered by Agentic AI...