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Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes

Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes

One of the constant struggles with Db2 development, and indeed developing for any relational DBMS, is designing and creating appropriate indexes. Perhaps the most important thing you can do to assure optimal application performance when accessing data …

Provision on Demand Part 2: IBM and Red Hat Ansible

Provision on Demand Part 2: IBM and Red Hat Ansible

Check out part one: What is Provisioning? to get caught up. Welcome back for part two of this provisioning automation blog series. In this installment we will be breaking down the opportunities for automated provisioning across the Z ecosystem. For clients that have...

Provision On Demand

Provision On Demand

Part One: What is Provisioning? It's no secret that in this age of digital transformation businesses are looking to build high-quality software for their customers and critical business processes. However, there are several challenges that they face when building...

Mainframe News Out There

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: 5 Quick Ways to Speed up Your z/OS Batch Without Application Changes An interesting...

Seamless VSAM data transfer between Host & PC

Seamless VSAM data transfer between Host & PC

VSAM files are widely used in CICS applications and it contains critical information with a huge data set. It is always a better idea to keep a backup of these files in your PC for future use. However, we cannot directly copy these VSAM files to PC, hence steps given...

CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP

CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP

In RACF security terminology, CICS is a resource manager. Resource manager security can be enabled or disabled. Dallas Z ISV RDP provided CICS security is disabled. Why? CICS manages many resources where enabling security requires decisions about which specific CICS...

zEDC and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS

zEDC and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS

Long before zEDC, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS (CDzOS), a managed file transfer product specializing in sending z/OS datasets from one mainframe customer to another, supported compressing a file before transmitting it. It originally only supported simple...

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Arcati Mainframe Yearbook Trivia

Arcati Mainframe Yearbook Trivia

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...

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Advances with LinuxONE and Tradeshow Announcements

Advances with LinuxONE and Tradeshow Announcements

IBM Brings Big Tech to Small Businesses with LinuxONE 4 Express IBM has started 2024 by unveiling the latest iteration of its LinuxONE servers—the LinuxONE 4 Express. Coming almost a year after the arrival of the LinuxONE Rockhopper 4, this latest offering enables...

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People Who Changed the Course of Computing History

People Who Changed the Course of Computing History

At Planet Mainframe’s Trivia Challenge, we’re continuing our journey through mainframe time, looking at some of the people who changed the course of computing history. Today we’re going back to a time when a computer referred to a person, not a machine.  During...

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Advances with LinuxONE and Tradeshow Announcements

Mainframe Modernization, Migrations and More

IBM Buys Advanced’s Mainframe Modernization Division For its first acquisition of 2024, IBM has announced that it will acquire application modernization capabilities from Advanced, a UK-based provider of mainframe modernization services. The pending acquisition will...

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Mainframe Trivia – Trailblazers Part 3

Mainframe Trivia – Trailblazers Part 3

January is Talent and Training month at Planet Mainframe, so here at Trivia Challenge we’re testing (and hopefully expanding) your knowledge of a few mainframe trailblazers. This week the spotlight is on Gene Amdahl. Born in South Dakota in 1922 and educated in a...

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