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OMEGAMON Data Provider Update: Now streaming CICS and Db2
It’s a pleasure to work with something new. It’s even better when customers are begging for faster delivery. That’s just the case with the new OMEGAMON Data Provider (ODP).First introduced and available in November ’21, with an ability to stream OMEGAMON data for the...
Provision On Demand Part 3: The Future of Automated Provisioning on z/OS
The Future of Automated Provisioning on z/OS Welcome back for part three of this provisioning automation blog series. In this installment we wanted to discuss the suggested direction customers should be considering when automating middleware provisioning on z/OS. When...
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...
