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Bridging Worlds: How Anshul Agrawal Is Bringing AI to the Heart of IMS
Anshul Agrawal Senior Manager, Product DevelopmentBMC Software Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.The mainframe has always been built on trust. Decades of reliability, scale, and performance have made...
Influential Mainframer Trivia: Bob Evans
At Planet Mainframe, April is dedicated to honoring influential mainframers past and present. This week’s quiz dives into the life and times of Bob Evans (1927–2004), who played a central role in shaping modern enterprise computing during his career at IBM. ...
From Classroom to Community: Geoffrey Decker’s Mainframe Impact
Geoffrey Decker Instructor, Northern Illinois UniversityCo-Founder and Lead Instructor, Eli Madison Memorial Apprenticeships (EMMA) DeKalb, Illinois, USA This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.The Maestro of the Mainframe...
Making the Invisible Visible: How PJ Catalano Connects Mainframes to the Next Generation
Pasquale “PJ” Catalano IBM Z & LinuxONE Test ArchitectIBM Infrastructure, EST&IPoughkeepsie, New York, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.IBM Z & LinuxONE Test Architect and Master Inventor, Pasquale “PJ”...
The Hidden Risk in Your z/OS Environment
In today’s always-on environments, changes to z/OS systems are happening constantly—often dynamically, and often under time pressure. While most organizations have formal change management processes in place, these processes are frequently reactive rather than...
Kyndryl Readiness Report, Precisely and Matillion Partnership, and more
Kyndryl Readiness Report reveals misalignment between infrastructure investment and preparedness for converging modernization demands Precisely and Matillion Partner to Accelerate Data Modernization and Agentic AI Readiness IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent,...
Modernizing the Mainframe Without Losing Knowledge
Bridging JCL and APIs in Mainframe Modernization Mainframe development sits between two realities. On one side, there is the traditional world of JCL, structured batch processes, and deterministic workflows. On the other, we see the rise of API-driven automation,...
DORA Is Here—Is Your Mainframe Access Layer Ready?
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) became fully enforceable across the European Union on January 17, 2025. From that date forward, financial institutions can no longer simply assert that their systems are resilient. They must demonstrate it. And when that...
Mainframe trends, strategies and opportunities
Six talking points for 2026 and beyond A decade ago, who could have predicted we’d be living in a golden age for the mainframe, with major investment and the platform acting as the backbone of today’s hybrid IT strategies? This article summarizes some of the issues...
Mainframe’s New Era: AI, Youth, and the Future of SHARE
If you've ever been to a SHARE conference, you know the energy. There's this buzz of people who are genuinely passionate about what they do. Orlando was no different, and sitting down with Tony Anter in the middle of all that felt right at home. Tony and I have had...
