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4 Tech Innovations That Could Change Smartphones

4 Tech Innovations That Could Change Smartphones

Smartphones have gotten so advanced today that it can almost be hard to tell the difference between the top options. That’s not to say you’d literally mix up an iPhone and its Samsung counterpart — but there aren’t too many defining features that really set one apart...

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DOCKER, Containers and Containerization

DOCKER, Containers and Containerization

With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will also be able to run on z/OS as Docker containers. zCX will be able to run Linux on Z applications on z/OS. Application developers having no z/OS skills...

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Mainframe News Out There

Mainframe News Out There

Once a month 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: The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform An interesting article by Planet Mainframe friend and IBM Gold...

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Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View

Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View

The Mainframe Era In 1970 I joined a company, Databank Systems Ltd, that operated a national network of 6 computer centres, each containing a S360/40.  In total this was less than 1/10,000th of the power of my current laptop, at a cost several thousand times...

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Sorting Results by Specific Values in SQL with CASE

Sorting Results by Specific Values in SQL with CASE

Recently I rewrote the backend for my service, Any New Books, due to an Amazon API change. Generally speaking, rewriting an entire codebase is a bad idea. However, the code was quite old and the API changes rather drastic, so I took the opportunity to rewrite the...

4 Tech Innovations That Could Change Smartphones

4 Tech Innovations That Could Change Smartphones

Smartphones have gotten so advanced today that it can almost be hard to tell the difference between the top options. That’s not to say you’d literally mix up an iPhone and its Samsung counterpart — but there aren’t too many defining features that really set one apart...

DOCKER, Containers and Containerization

DOCKER, Containers and Containerization

With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will also be able to run on z/OS as Docker containers. zCX will be able to run Linux on Z applications on z/OS. Application developers having no z/OS skills...

Mainframe News Out There

Mainframe News Out There

Once a month 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: The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform An interesting article by Planet Mainframe friend and IBM Gold...

Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View

Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View

The Mainframe Era In 1970 I joined a company, Databank Systems Ltd, that operated a national network of 6 computer centres, each containing a S360/40.  In total this was less than 1/10,000th of the power of my current laptop, at a cost several thousand times...

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The Power of CICS Traces and Metrics September 9, 2025 @ 11:30am ET We will begin this Virtual User Group session with a high-level overview of IBM CICS Transaction Server […]

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Evolution of the Mainframe

Evolution of the Mainframe

In 2023, the mainframe is the central technology of the  biggest businesses on earth, but they also have a long and storied history. They’ve been around long enough, in fact,  to have had a cameo appearance in the show Mad Men (shout out to the IBM/360). But...

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Mainframe News This Month

Mainframe News This Month

VirtualZ Computing Raises $4.9 Million to Enable Enterprise Innovation With Mainframe Data  VirtualZ Computing, the only woman-founded mainframe company, has announced $2.2 million in seed financing, bringing the total capital raised to $4.9 million. The capital...

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Navigating AI and More

IBM Unveils watsonx.governance to Help Businesses Navigate AI Enterprises use AI to solve problems, but businesses are also finding that AI has ushered in a whole new murky world of risks. IBM has announced that watsonx.governance will be released in early December to...

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Do you know your Linux Trivia?

Do you know your Linux Trivia?

As one of the most popular operating systems on the planet, we are all living in a Linux world. All of the world’s top 500 supercomputers run Linux, not to mention our cars, phones, and home appliances. This trusty OS has now been around for a few decades, which in...

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Mainframe News This Month

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Rocket Software Survey Reveals Only 27% of Organizations are Extremely Confident in Mainframe Security Compliance Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, has released the findings of its...

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