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Eastern Illinois University—a Renewed Hotbed for Mainframe Education
Bridging the Gap Pundits have been ringing mainframe technology’s death knell since the early 1990’s, but industry needs for information security and big data computing power have kept mainframes very much alive. Mainframes continue to be the workhorse for...
Modernization in the News
IBM z/OS upgrade will deliver mainframe AI services and support IBM has revealed further details about its imminent launch of a major z/OS upgrade, which will feature an infusion of AI. The operating system upgrade introduces AI support via a feature package called...
Operational Resilience Driven by AIOps and Automation
In today’s hyper-connected world, we expect apps to work flawlessly, ALWAYS be available, and respond in seconds. Behind the scenes of all these digital apps is exponential growth of data, transactions, and complexity. Traditional reactive approaches to managing apps...
CICS Programming Best Practices
ASRA Abend Code In discussing aspects of CICS Command level Programming, have you ever wondered why a Program Interrupt (S0C4, S0C7) results in an ASRA Abend code? Firstly, it is important to remember that the middle 2 characters of every Abend code tells us who...
Test your SMF knowledge and more with trivia this week!
As usual, this week’s trivia challenge will look back at two Planet Mainframe articles with different themes. This week, our first article will be most relevant for companies that outsource their mainframes to specialist outsourcers. The second should be highly...
Tackling the Tech Talent Challenge
At the core of technology, it's all about people! From developing hardware to crafting software and applications, it's the human ingenuity that fuels innovation. So, investing heavily in your workforce is not just an option, but an essential step towards success. Join...
How Sustainable Is The Mainframe?
Why should we care about sustainable computing? I’d always considered the IT sector to be pretty sustainable until I discovered some alarming facts. The IT systems that run our world are now responsible for around 4 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas...
Mandates and Talent Shortages are Driving Big Spending on Modernization
IBM Awarded $1B IRS Contract for Modernization of Aging IT Systems IBM announced this week that it is one of four organizations chosen to support the Internal Revenue Service’s massive, seven-year, technology modernization program. The IRS’ aging and...
Top 10 Performance Tuning Tips for IBM Db2
Performance is a critical aspect of any database management system, and IBM Db2 is no exception. As organizations deal with ever-increasing data volumes and complex workloads, it is crucial that Db2 environments are fine-tuned to ensure optimal performance,...
Accessing skills and resources for the modern mainframe: what are your options?
Once upon a time, senior management believed the mainframe was a dying platform, and far too expensive to run. So investments in the platform (and the people running it) slowed and stalled. Today, we see the impact of those decisions. In an era of mainframe...
