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Ill winds: Why Mainframe Security Should be Heading Your 2021 Priorities List
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
Your journey to AIOps includes IBM Z
The challenges of a digital business At the heart of today’s digital business is the quality of the experience it delivers to customers, partners and employees. But today, delivering the level of service your customers have come to expect is more complicated. In the...
Accelerating Your Db2 Database
Your Db2 database The IBM mainframe and its Db2 database is the transaction processing workhorse for the world’s biggest banks, insurers and financial services companies. It was designed to execute their high-intensity transaction processing workloads very...
Zero Trust Architecture Mobilizes Organizations to Safeguard Mainframe
Tried and true, the mainframe is here to stay as the backbone of our digital economy. Even as we advance to include new storage systems, all of our data exists on a mainframe somewhere. In fact, by 2030, there will be 40 trillion mobile transactions per day and the...
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: Planet Db2 The resurrected Planet Db2 blog is chugging along just fine, with new articles...
Bridging Two Worlds: Mainframes and Clients
In Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View I wrote of the way that computers have evolved from the mainframe era of the 1970’s to today’s interconnected world, where mainframes and other servers communicate with PC’s and mobile devices to provide services that...
Avoid IT overconsumption and reduce your CO2 footprint
The footprint of IT has reached the same levels today as the global CO2 emissions of global air traffic. Furthermore, various studies show that in the coming years the digital revolution entails the energy consumption produced from IT being multiplied with an increase...
DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge
The speed of digital transformation is already impressive and will only increase. To put this in very concrete terms, consider the following: Suddenly, a large number of people jumped from a very provincial lifestyle directly into digital times - creating a massive...
Don’t Tell the CFO!
The general view that mainframers have of senior financial staff in an organization is that they are people who want to stop anything new happening. They are the people who want mainframers – who are happiest when keeping their mainframe working optimally and keeping...
Db2 for z/OS EXPLAIN: What an Access Path Is, and What it Would Be
The EXPLAIN functionality of Db2 for z/OS, by which the query optimizer's access path determinations are externalized, has been around as long as I can remember, and Db2 people, by and large, are familiar with the concept. In recent weeks, however, I discovered that...
