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Db2 for z/OS: The Online Path from a Multi-Table Table Space to Universal Table Spaces
Back in 2014, I posted an entry to this blog on the topic of getting to universal table spaces from non-universal table spaces. In that entry, I noted that there was an online path (ALTER followed by online REORG) for getting from a “classic” partition…
CFO Thoughts on Z Day 2022
Tuesday April 5, 2022 was a great day to be part of the mainframe community. As you may have seen on the wire, that was the day IBM “unveiled IBM® z16™, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized...
Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started its Own Culture War?
I have spent my career in the mainframe computing space. It's a strange and insular world. And it's shrinking a little each day, as the global mainframe workforce sees skilled workers retiring, transitioning to other roles, sometimes even dying, without a...
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: Digitization and Modernization Heads Up: Start With Applications Interesting article by...
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Have you been lost in the massive IBM Z learning materials and don't know where to start? Are you struggling to find easy-to-consume IBM Z learning courses? Do you want simple but well-organized IBM Z learning plans? It's time to start your IBM Z learning journey and...
Monitors, Analytics, and AI … Oh My!
Delivering high quality service to end users is the primary mission of IT organizations. The importance of this imperative is steadily increasing as the world becomes ever more in entrenched in a technology driven digital economy. Thankfully, more tools than ever...
Hide your privates
My mac had turned into a bit of a mess. I had ssh private keys (that use Passphrases of course!) in a variety of places and I wasn’t very happy about it. I have several different servers that I connect to. There are a few GitHub systems, a Linux system, and of course...
Db2 for z/OS: Answering Some Questions About DBATs (i.e., DDF Threads)
Sometimes, a DBA will email me a question about Db2 for z/OS, and I’ll respond in a pretty comprehensive way, and I’ll look at that outbound message and think to myself, “Hmm. I may have written most of a blog entry there.” This is one of those ca…
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Cyber Threat Reports, Pragmatic Modernization, and 60 Years of Mainframe
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Log-On Software Relaunches Support for Multiple IBM Solutions
Bedford, NH, February 29, 2024 – Log-On Software, a trusted industry leader in the mainframe solution space and provider of world-class z System solutions, announced renewed support for multiple IBM z System solutions. This development marks a significant...
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The 2024 Arcati Mainframe User Survey has landed, and this year marks the first year for the survey in its new home on the Planet Mainframe website. The survey offers a point-in-time look at organizations’ existing mainframe hardware and software configurations, with...