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Fresh Mainframe Market Insight Reveals Pressing Objectives for Decision Makers
The mainframe industry is no stranger to market surveys, and a variety of organizations aim to determine trends and attitudes using regular market inquiries. A brand-new market survey, instigated by mainframe software specialists PopUp Mainframe, recently set about...
Influential Mainframer – Sujit Neb
A modernizer at heart, Sujit Neb is helping reshape what’s possible on the mainframe. Sujit Neb Senior Automation Engineer, BMC Software Pune, Maharashtra, India Connect with Sujit on: View the entire 2025 Influential Mainframers group here. Sujit Neb is a builder,...
Availability, Resiliency, and Scalability
Last time, we looked at Application Support features for Db2v13. Today, let’s have a look at Availability, Resiliency, and Scalability and Performance. It is also common for each new version of Db2 to deliver functionality that improves availability, resiliency, and...
Do you know your mainframe lingo?
Did your computer journey start with dial-up and dot matrix? Perhaps you cut your teeth coding COBOL, or maybe you dream in Rust. Whatever your beginning, both you and technology changed along the way. If you’re not modernizing your mainframe and your skills, you’re...
Optimize Developer Efficiency With a Shift-Left Approach to Mainframe Scheduling
Written by: Praveen Verma Taking a DevOps-driven approach towards mainframe batch scheduling that shifts more responsibility directly to developers can help them manage their needs without sacrificing the necessary oversight from the scheduling team. Let’s explore!...
The Next Generation of Db2
Welcome to the Planet Mainframe Podcast, your gateway to the forefront of technology and the digital age. In this episode, we're shining a spotlight on one of the rising stars in mainframe and Db2. Keziah Knopp is a Db2 for z/OS Specialist for IBM that works with...
Application Support
Last time we looked at AI and Db2; today let’s look more closely at Db2v13 improvements in Application Support. There are always changes and features delivered with each new version of Db2 that impact application developers, and Db2 13 for z/OS is no different. The...
AI and Db2
Last time we covered Db2 12 for z/OS Function Levels and how that was the basis for Db2v13. Another synergy with the z Systems hardware is that Db2 13 for z/OS takes advantage of the new IBM Z Telum processor for AI workloads. And AI capabilities are one of the big...
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World of Observability and Resiliency
This month at Planet Mainframe we’re delving into the world of observability and resiliency. Far from being buzzwords, the complex nature of modern IT environments makes this a theme worth a lot of spilled ink. Our trivia quiz this week will focus on...
Mainframes remain crucial to infrastructure, Big Data announcements and more
The 2024 ISG Provider Lens™ Mainframes — Services and Solutions report for the U.S. Public Sector The U.S. public sector continues to rely heavily on its mainframes, and a new report looks specifically at what this crucial sector is doing to keep the technology...
Twentieth-Century Mainframe Icon—Fred Brooks
At Planet Mainframe, we’ve been marking the 60th anniversary of the mainframe by celebrating the lives of influential mainframes of the past and present. This week, we’re turning our attention to a twentieth-century mainframe icon—Fred Brooks. Brooks was a luminary in...
Mainframe News – Acquisitions and Federal Appeals
Rocket Software Closes Acquisition of OpenText’s Application Modernization and Connectivity Business Rocket Software has successfully finalized the acquisition of OpenText's Application Modernization and Connectivity (AMC) business, formerly part of Micro Focus. The...
Most Influential Mainframers Trivia
At Planet Mainframe, we’ve been celebrating the careers of mainframe influencers—the people that raise the bar, push the envelope, break new ground. Whatever metaphor you want to use, these are the people who aren’t afraid to make things a bit uncomfortable in order...
Mainframes prove a new level of resilience and more
Mainframes Survive 4.8 Magnitude Eastcoast Earthquake A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the Northeast on Friday, April 5, rattling the East Coast from Maine down to Virginia. But while people may have been feeling shaken, the mainframes of Poughkeepsie were just fine....