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Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes
One of the constant struggles with Db2 development, and indeed developing for any relational DBMS, is designing and creating appropriate indexes. Perhaps the most important thing you can do to assure optimal application performance when accessing data …
Provision on Demand Part 2: IBM and Red Hat Ansible
Check out part one: What is Provisioning? to get caught up. Welcome back for part two of this provisioning automation blog series. In this installment we will be breaking down the opportunities for automated provisioning across the Z ecosystem. For clients that have...
Provision On Demand
Part One: What is Provisioning? It's no secret that in this age of digital transformation businesses are looking to build high-quality software for their customers and critical business processes. However, there are several challenges that they face when building...
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: 5 Quick Ways to Speed up Your z/OS Batch Without Application Changes An interesting...
Seamless VSAM data transfer between Host & PC
VSAM files are widely used in CICS applications and it contains critical information with a huge data set. It is always a better idea to keep a backup of these files in your PC for future use. However, we cannot directly copy these VSAM files to PC, hence steps given...
Four Essential Features for a Database Security Strategy to Take on a Growing Threat Landscape
For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams have tried to funnel every application into using those databases. Today, as the pressure to innovate while keeping costs low...
CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP
In RACF security terminology, CICS is a resource manager. Resource manager security can be enabled or disabled. Dallas Z ISV RDP provided CICS security is disabled. Why? CICS manages many resources where enabling security requires decisions about which specific CICS...
zEDC and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS
Long before zEDC, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS (CDzOS), a managed file transfer product specializing in sending z/OS datasets from one mainframe customer to another, supported compressing a file before transmitting it. It originally only supported simple...
The sleek new IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS Trial Cloud Service is live
IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO) is a unique offering that applies cutting-edge optimization technology to improve the performance of already-compiled COBOL applications built with VS COBOL 1.3 to Enterprise COBOL 4.2. You can now try ABO out with an...
Mainframe Coaching & Mentoring: a simple, modern method.
There is a priceless mainframe computing resource that will, if not properly treated, disappear from your mainframe organization and reduce productivity, increase error and leave you more vulnerable to disaster! It's a critical resource that your organization relies...
