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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...
We eat our own cooking
On z/OS, many colleagues and customers I work with use traditional tools for system programming and development tasks. This is often the set that they grew up with when they first came to the platform, and although newer products exist I’ve been puzzled by why...
IBM Telum Processor: the next-gen microprocessor for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
In today’s digital economy, data offers tremendous opportunities for harvesting value. Yet extracting insight from real time enterprise transactions can present an elusive goal. Running deep learning models on high volume transactional data is difficult to attain with...
Fixing DB2 data for A Given table using Batch Program
Batch programming is a very powerful process which helps process Millions of record from a input data source. An Input data source can be a VSAM dataset, SMS files or Database Such as DB2 or IMS. In these Blog we will be studying the Batch Application to update...
Are mainframers too negative?
Self-help gurus have become the equivalent to pop stars and TV idols. They are well-known and have thousands of followers on social media. And their message is always to be positive. We should always think about successful outcomes to anything that we want to achieve....
From traditional IT operations to AIOps
AIOps is a trending topic within the hybrid and complex IT landscape. And in fact, many companies already started their journey to AIOps. They have more and new requirements for IT operations. From our experience working with China and ASEAN Pacific customers,...
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: IBM Telum Processor An interesting article on the DancingDinosaur blog (Hi Telum) about...
The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business
Many of we mainframe pundits have written about the robustness, power, perseverance, capacity and more importantly, the cost-effectiveness of the mainframe (Allingham, Sun, Peleg), including myself. But what about showing the superiority of the mainframe using real...
Performance management and capacity planning on IBM Z in a hybrid cloud world
Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven Intelligence and automation to make quick and accurate decisions to maintain resiliency. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management and accelerate and automate problem...
