License z/OS Software-as-a-Service and Move Individual IBM Z Workloads to Private, Public or Hybrid Clouds
The acronym “SaaS” first appeared in 2001 as a revolutionary concept. Now, Gartner predicts the SaaS market will reach $116B…
The next frontier: when the mainframe becomes the default for new world-class workloads
Innovation in Our Genes “Thank you, Gene!” My fellow-nerd and I were just passing through an automatically-opening door, and he was pointing out the role of Star Trek, and therefore of its creator Gene Roddenberry, in having inspired many innovations…
Tell me about COBOL
Let me start by telling you a story… Once there was a big town and everyone went to school and…
Still COBOL After All These Years?
Have you seen the recent headlines? Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process…
Mainframe modernization remains a top priority
The mainframe community is rightly proud of our platform’s ability to accelerate digital transformation and protect enterprises against growing cyber…
Understanding how a ‘CM0 SL1 – ACK’ Input Message sent to IMS Connect works
IMS Connect (ICON) is the TCP/IP gateway for IMS. So, besides running the traditional IMS transactions on z/OS, an IMS…
Optimizing Mainframe Data Access
Nobody can deny that the amount of data that we store and manage continues to expand at a rapid pace.…
Embracing In-Memory Processing for Optimizing Performance
Organizations are always encouraging their IT professionals to obtain the highest level of performance out of their applications and systems.…
Mainframe systems help to keep things going in a pandemic
While many of us are in pandemic mode—hopefully most people who CAN work remotely ARE working remotely. Unfortunately, some folks…
Streaming z/OS IT Operational Data with IBM Z Common Data Provider
In today’s business world, the pressure to deliver faster to be "in the business", the importance to reduce outages and…
DOCKER, Containers and Containerization
With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will…