Who Doesn’t Love Mainframe Trivia
It’s no secret that a mainframe system is a huge business investment. But when it comes to optimizing the ROI…
Hot Off the Press Mainframe News
IBM Announces z/OS 3.1 Will Embrace AI IBM has released a teaser for its much anticipated Quarter 3 2023 z/OS…
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…
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Have you been lost in the massive IBM Z learning materials and don’t know where to start? Are you struggling…