Best Practices for Closing the Mainframe Security Gap
You could argue – as some folks have – that mainframes are inherently more secure than commodity servers because there…
Zowe™ Chat can make you more productive: user scenarios
Since the publication of Zowe gets Chatty a few months ago, the Zowe open community has made great progress. Watch for a…
Db2 for z/OS: SEPARATE_SECURITY and SECADM
In the Db2 for z/OS module called DSNZPARM (ZPARM, for short), which provides the configuration settings for a Db2 subsystem,…
What Db2 for z/OS People Should Know About Data Fabric
“Data fabric” is an increasingly hot topic in IT circles, and with good reason—an effectively implemented data fabric can deliver…
What Should a Modern Db2 for z/OS Client-Server Application Environment Look Like?
The distributed data facility (aka DDF) is the component of Db2 for z/OS that enables data access by applications that…
Boost your mainframe skills for free
Have you been lost in the massive IBM Z learning materials and don’t know where to start? Are you struggling…
Hide your privates
My mac had turned into a bit of a mess. I had ssh private keys (that use Passphrases of course!)…
z/OS Containers – Understanding z/OS Automation
In my last blog, I gave an overview about Kubernetes and highlighted how Kubernetes orchestrates application deployments. There are certainly much…