IBM

Fast Mainframe Data Access – Apples and Oranges

In a growing economy, increases in expected business workloads are making their impacts felt in today's busiest data centers, through increased online transactions, web requests, mobile requests, batch jobs, ad hoc queries, data warehousing analysis, and more. Meanwhile, disruptive technologies…

Availability

Always On: Achieving continuous availability for non-data sharing workloads in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex

Introduction The z/OS Parallel Sysplex® technology provides a highly reliable, redundant, and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems…

Mainframe

9 ways to Master the Z

Oct 10, 2018
Hemanth Rama
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So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or…

Mainframe

IBM z14 Model ZR1: A Smaller Mainframe for a Larger World

On April 10, 2018, IBM announced their latest mainframe offering, the IBM z14 Model ZR1. This announcement came hot on…

Mainframe

Easy access to IBM Z information with IBM Doc Buddy

Feb 6, 2018
Nina Song
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IBM Doc Buddy enables you to search error messages of IBM Z software products in both the online or offline…

Mainframe

3 Important I/O Features Coming with the IBM z14

17 July 2017 marked the IBM announcement of the latest IBM mainframe: the IBM z14. Congratulations to the IBM Z…

Mainframe

The New IBM z14: More Secure, Flexible, Powerful and Analytical Than Ever Before

Jul 18, 2017
Craig Mullins
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Mainframe IT professionals always get excited when IBM announces a new version of its stalwart mainframe z Systems platform. And…

Hybrid

Think before you click Hybrid Cloud Computing

Many of you may be thinking why on earth am I even suggesting this? Hybrid cloud computing offers flexibility, fault…

DB2

It’s about time!

Aug 23, 2016
Rick Weaver
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DB2 z/OS V12 is in the Early Support Program mode. This means the larger Independent Software Vendors (BMC, CA, Compuware,…

Mainframe

zUniversity Munich Insights

The European version of the IBM zUniversity took place in Munich on June 13-17 this year and it was a…

Mainframe

A Look Back at 2015

Jan 7, 2016
Allan Zander
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2015 was a great year for the mainframe business—and that was great news for large IT organizations running mainframe systems,…