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How to Reduce ‘Mean Time to Innocence’ in Mainframe Incident Management
A mobile banking app begins timing out. The cloud operations team sees API failures. The IBM Z team sees Db2 lock contention. Both teams launch separate investigations, even though they are troubleshooting the same outage. When a customer transaction spans distributed...
The Enterprise Was Always About Data
AI Simply Reminded Us.For years, enterprise technology conversations have centered on infrastructure. We debated where applications should run. Then we spent the better part of a decade deciding which workloads belonged on premises, which belonged in the cloud, and...
Agentic AI on the Mainframe
It’s AI month at Planet Mainframe, and for Round Two of our Trivia Challenge, we’re turning to agentic AI. On the mainframe, this emerging technology is moving beyond answering questions and generating code. Agents can interpret goals, reason through multi-step...
Closing the Gap: Advancing Cost Transparency to Strengthen the Z Platform’s Value
This article was previously published on SHARE’d Intelligence.Derek Powe is on the SHARE Board of Directors.The IBM Z platform continues to deliver unmatched reliability, scalability, and transaction efficiency for mission-critical workloads. As organizations...
Where AI Earns Its Place in Mainframe Management
The mainframe is not going away. The Arcati Mainframe Navigator 2026 reinforces the continued importance of IBM Z to business-critical operations, while also showing an industry taking a pragmatic approach to AI. Rather than expecting AI to fundamentally disrupt the...
IBM Bob and VSAM Tuning: Where AI Helps—and Where It Doesn’t
IBM Bob can uncover access patterns and support new mainframer learning. Here’s why every tuning recommendation still needs a reality check. No, this is not the thousandth article about how IBM Bob can convert code from one language to another. What interests me much...
The Mainframe in the Age of Mythos: Why AI Governance Is Now a Security Requirement
When Anthropic's Mythos model and Project Glasswing demonstrated that AI could identify software vulnerabilities at machine speed, the security community took notice. But the most important insight from Mythos wasn't about discovery speed. It was about everything that...
Risk and Compliance Portfolio for IBM Z Environments, IBM Z Datathon, and more
Rocket Software Launches Rocket® z/Assurance™, a Risk and Compliance Portfolio for IBM Z® Environments IBM Z Datathon: Build AI for Good. In 24 Hours. At Global Scale. Broadcom 2026 North American Mainframe Technical Exchange LTM Collaborates with IBM and Red Hat on...
AI for Mainframe Skills: A Mentor in Your Pocket
Can domain-specific AI accelerate mainframe learning while keeping human expertise and judgment central? IBM’s Meredith Stowell weighs in. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help newcomers learn jobs quicker and contribute faster. A study by the National Bureau of...
Artificial “Adolescence” Requires a New Mainframe Mindset
Hollywood has long depicted fantastical tech, from Star Trek’s ship computers to Iron Man’s JARVIS. Today, AI feels like one of those cinematic futures brought to life. But unlike the movies, it isn't a finished product. It’s a fast-moving reality bringing massive...
