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Tell me about COBOL

Tell me about COBOL

Let me start by telling you a story… Once there was a big town and everyone went to school and learned to read and write and they bought and shared books. They liked reading. Then, some of the townspeople decided that it would be beneficial for everyone if the town...

Still COBOL After All These Years?

Still COBOL After All These Years?

Have you seen the recent headlines? Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims (CNN 04/08/2020) and An Ancient Computer Language Is Slowing America’s Giant Stimulus (Bloomberg 04/13/2020). These...

Mainframe modernization remains a top priority

Mainframe modernization remains a top priority

The mainframe community is rightly proud of our platform’s ability to accelerate digital transformation and protect enterprises against growing cyber threats. The IBM mainframe’s security, resiliency, and scalability are exactly what is required to deliver growth...

Optimizing Mainframe Data Access

Optimizing Mainframe Data Access

Nobody can deny that the amount of data that we store and manage continues to expand at a rapid pace. A recent study by analysts at IDC Corporation concludes that the size of what they call The Global Datasphere will reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. This data growth is...

Db2 12 for z/OS Buffer Pools – Recommendations for PGSTEAL, PGFIX and FRAMESIZE

Removing Duplicates From a List in Elixir

Thanks to the Enum module, in Elixir we can trivially remove duplicates from a list. In the following example, we take a list of integers and pass it to the Enum.uniq/1 function which removes duplicates from the list without altering the original...

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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 […]

Introducing Syncsort™ Storage Management

Recently, Precisely added the Storage Management solutions from DTS Software to our product lineup.  These products represent a significant addition to Precisely’s already robust IBM Z software portfolio. The newly […]

Mainframe Trailblazer Trivia

Mainframe Trailblazer Trivia

This month at Planet Mainframe the focus is on Talent and Training, so here at Trivia Challenge we’re going to test your knowledge of a few mainframe trailblazers. The first person we’re looking at is the formidable Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Born in 1906, Hopper’s...

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Mainframe News to Close Out the Year

Mainframe News to Close Out the Year

Broadcom Completes Acquisition of VMware, Moves to Subscription Model Having completed its acquisition of VMware, Inc, Broadcom Inc., a provider of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, is moving forward with plans to enable enterprise customers to...

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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 to Close Out the Year

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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Mainframe News to Close Out the Year

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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