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We eat our own cooking

We eat our own cooking

On z/OS, many colleagues and customers I work with use traditional tools for system programming and development tasks.  This is often the set that they grew up with when they first came to the platform, and although newer products exist I’ve been puzzled by why...

Are mainframers too negative?

Are mainframers too negative?

Self-help gurus have become the equivalent to pop stars and TV idols. They are well-known and have thousands of followers on social media. And their message is always to be positive. We should always think about successful outcomes to anything that we want to achieve....

From traditional IT operations to AIOps

From traditional IT operations to AIOps

AIOps is a trending topic within the hybrid and complex IT landscape.  And in fact, many companies already started their journey to AIOps. They have more and new requirements for IT operations. From our experience working with China and ASEAN Pacific customers,...

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: IBM Telum Processor An interesting article on the DancingDinosaur blog (Hi Telum) about...

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Understanding SMF 98 Address Space Consumption Measurements ..... September 17th ..... Sign up using this link As we have previously discussed, the SMF 98 records are still a fairly new record, […]

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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 […]

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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Announcing the 2024 IMPACT Award Finalists and more

CVS, Legal & General, Fidelity Investments Selected as 2024 IMPACT Innovation Award Finalists The 2024 CMG IMPACT conference will take place in Atlanta, GA in February, and - along with education and peer-to-peer exchange of all things digital transformation,...

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