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Observability in Action: Deep Dive into OMEGAMON AI for CICS
Observability Significance “Observability depends on stitching together the story of a transaction as it moves across subsystems.” IBM OMEGAMON suite and software have been a staple of Z monitoring for decades, reducing outages by empowering operations teams and...
How Next-Gen Mainframers Benefit from Observability and SRE
At SHARE Cleveland 2025, BMC’s Jeremy Hamilton sat down with Planet Mainframe to discuss the biggest shifts in mainframe operations. From observability and SRE to the practical use of generative AI, Hamilton shared why the platform is evolving faster than ever, and...
Ethical Dilemmas of AI
Can AI be trusted? It's already visibly and invisibly woven into our world—from Google Translate and video game bots to industry usage across healthcare, manufacturing, and banking for critical workloads. Can we effectively leverage this game-changing technology and...
When Generative AI Takes Over Healthcare and the World
It’s been said that 40% of all businesses will die in the next 10 years… if they don’t figure out how to change their entire company to accommodate new technologies. Large language models are driving the next generation of AI with predictions of massive industry...
Artificial Intelligence, the Future of Humanity and the Technology that is transforming the World
Federico Faggin, the inventor of the microchip, has been turning his gaze ever more toward and inside the human being. He has said in various interviews, in his native Italy, that his new goal, far more than improving computing capacity, is to teach people, regular...
Artificial Intelligence as a Continuation of Philosophy by Other Means
Computer science can – and otherwise should – be interpreted as a continuation of philosophy by other means. Why? Computer science and its evolution into artificial intelligence are raising existential questions. Not just about technology but about human nature...
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Total Network Failure on your Production System – What are the Chances?
Perhaps higher than you may think. Total loss of network connectivity is a critical event that can be hard to diagnose and recover from, especially if the systems specialists cannot connect to the system. The three mostly likely causes for total network failure on a...
Surveys, security and spaghetti
Mark Wilson reflects on the findings of a recent mainframe survey, explaining why security should be the number one priority, and why we need to start talking about complexity and observability. I read with interest the highlights of the Arcati Mainframe survey 2024,...
Vertali zTrust: Detect Network Activity and Control Traffic to Enhance Cybersecurity and Compliance
Vertali’s zTrust is a unique software solution that dramatically reduces the time, effort and costs needed to secure your operations and prove compliance with data standards and industry regulations. zTrust reveals network activity to and from your mainframe,...
Ransomware Attacks and your Health
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place, and many people have used things like ChatGPT, a popular generative AI (GenAI) that can answer questions, write essays and poems, or summarize a book. However, like most things, AI can also be turned to the...
Surprising Revelations from the recent Rocket Software Security Study
While at GSE UK, Planet Mainframe’s own Amanda Hendley, the Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe, interviews Phil Buckellew, President of Infrastructure Modernization at Rocket Software, and discusses the importance of mainframe security, emphasizing that while the...
Securing software products—protecting the supply chain
Earlier this year, I presented sessions at SHARE New Orleans on mainframe security, hacking, and security assessments. These spiked quite a bit of interest among attendees. In particular, a conversation kicked off with several leading mainframe-focused software...
Hybrid Cloud: The Key to Marrying Security & Modernization
As of 2023, over 72% of businesses worldwide have been affected by ransomware attacks. With new attacks seemingly every day and the cost of these attacks on the rise, companies know they can’t afford to joke around about security. Because of this, many are opting to...
How to Prevent Scary Cyberattacks with Mainframe Cyber Resiliency
Preventing ransomware attacks has become one of the top cybersecurity priorities for organizations. Mainframes are not immune to ransomware or any other cyberattack. Yes, the most secure platform on the planet that runs mission-critical applications and holds...
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Redefining Legacy Modernization Around Customer Outcomes
Zoom - Virtual MeetingWhy modernization success requires a flexible, outcome-driven approach Legacy modernization continues to rank among the top priorities—and pressure points—for CIOs. Gartner’s Top CIO Challenges 2024 highlights application portfolio modernization as […]
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Virtual CICS User Group | AI and CICS with Steve Wallin, IBM
Zoom - Virtual MeetingIn today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses demand seamless, efficient, and secure transaction processing to keep up with evolving customer expectations and market dynamics. On IBM Z, a platform renowned for […]
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Virtual CICS User Group | The IT Stairway to Heaven. CICS Testing Pyramid: From Unit to Integration to Production-Like Environment
Zoom - Virtual MeetingEffective testing is essential for building robust systems. Dive deep into a structured approach to the testing pyramid for CICS applications. Using Test4z, we will demonstrate how unit tests form […]
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Virtual Db2 User Group | January 20, 2026
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NEWS – Expanded AI-Powered Data Quality, Strategic Partnerships, & more
IBM and Groq Partner to Deliver Faster Agentic AI Capabilities Precisely Expands Access to AI-Powered Data Quality with Natural Language Interfaces in the Data Integrity Suite IBM Announces Advancements to Help Enterprises Operationalize AI Mainframe Technology...
TRIVIA – Cybersecurity Month
For many of us, October is about falling leaves, shorter days, and cooler weather. It also happens to be Cybersecurity month, the time when we dial in on the never-ending (and ever-evolving) task of securing the mainframe. Mainframes have a reputation for being...
NEWS – Commercial Availability of Spyre Accelerator, Kyndryl Survey 2025, & more
IBM Introduces the Spyre Accelerator for Commercial Availability Kyndryl Survey 2025: Mainframe Modernization Projects Deliver 2-3X ROI BMC 2025 Mainframe Survey: Confidence, Generational Shift in Views on Mainframe Development Rocket Software Advances COBOL...
TRIVIA – COBOL in Enterprise IT
In September, Planet Mainframe pays tribute to the programming language that has formed the backbone of many mission-critical workloads — COBOL. Considered by some to be a relic of early computing, COBOL continues to play a vital (if often overlooked) role in the...
NEWS – New features for Data Integrity, TechXchange sessions, & more
Precisely Unveils AI Agents and Copilot for the Data Integrity Suite Broadcom North American Mainframe Technical Exchange – October 15–17, 2025, Plano, Texas IBM TechXchange Conference: Session Catalog Now Available New Mainframe Podcast: Mainframe Coven Adventures in...
TRIVIA – Observability and Resiliency
At Planet Mainframe, September is the month that we pay special attention to two critical pillars of modern mainframe operations — observability and resiliency. Observability goes beyond traditional monitoring by providing deep insights into applications,...