We are excited to announce that starting Jan. 1st 2020, Destination Z will have a new home on the new IBM Z and LinuxONE Community.
December 20, 2019
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By Keelia Estrada Moeller
Joseph Gulla does a Q&A with IBM Z Product Owner Miao Zhang-Cohen on the IBM z15.
December 02, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
What happens when an IMS Connect client sends a CM1 SL1 - ACK input message to IMS Connect.
November 26, 2019
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By Subhasish Sarkar
An explanation of what happens when an IMS Connect client sends a CM1 SL0 input message to IMS Connect and a Syncpoint failure occurs.
November 21, 2019
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By Subhasish Sarkar
An explanation of what happens when an IMS Connect client sends a CM1 SL0 input message to IMS Connect.
November 13, 2019
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By Subhasish Sarkar
Virtualization—or making a computer conceptually seem to have more resources than are actually available, causing the margin between near and far to become invisible—is similar to the experience of looking past the edge of an infinity pool and seeing the ocean.
November 13, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Jeanne Brooks, the Worldwide IBM Z Community Leader, and her team created the new IBM Z and LinuxONE Community—a user-centric community offering members an experience unlike any other.
November 01, 2019
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By Dava Stewart
That solid foundation of innovation on the IBM Z platform continues to enable newer emerging features and applications, surpassing the distributed computing world in every way but one: humanity.
October 22, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Joseph Gulla does a Q&A with Misty Decker to learn what's new with the IBM Z Academic Initiative and Master the Mainframe.
October 07, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
Today’s mainframe legacies have often become stumbling blocks for moving to the future.
September 17, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Joseph Gulla talks with IBM Redbooks Manager Chris Rayns about IBM Redbooks, why they’re useful, how they’ve evolved and how audiences receive them.
September 04, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
Our mainframe ecosystem has been built by so many world-class people of every description, including many great women in IT.
August 28, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Joseph Gulla—IT thought leader, researcher and regular contributor to Destination z—explores how experience reconciling legacy systems with emerging technologies makes millennial mainframers super candidates for what Deloitte describes as “superjobs.”
August 23, 2019
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By R.C. "Bob" Dirkes
Joseph Gulla highlights compelling ideas, unexpected notions and real-world connections from the 2019 ECC conference.
August 22, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
Here are six reasons why Python is crucial for data science, even more than R.
August 08, 2019
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By Usha Sunil
There are at least five (and probably a lot more) reasons why mainframers are like elephants.
August 02, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
We have Babbage, Hollerith and Turing to thank for the fact that modern world-class computing keeps turning out better and better successors.
August 01, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Joseph Gulla talks with Cynthia Worrad, an assistant dean for the School of Computer Science and Mathematics at Marist College, about student involvement at the 2019 ECC conference.
July 22, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
If you’re a modern-day developer, it’s imperative that you learn C# and understand C# best practices.
July 17, 2019
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By Usha Sunil
The IBM Z Service Automation Suite is a collection of products used to automate and control a large range of system elements.
June 26, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
June 13, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Mainframe Mike: The Game teaches school-aged children about IBM Z hardware and software.
June 03, 2019
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By Valerie Dennis Craven
Security, storage and performance features in z14 are improving application functionality on IBM Z.
May 15, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
Much of the best of IT has come to a point of reliability where the innovation can build on top of it rather than changing foundational layers. One of the most important moments in IT history was the announcement of the System/360.
May 01, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
James Stanger, CompTIA’s chief technology evangelist, explains how organic analogies like farming can illuminate the way to career success for millennial mainframers in the era Gartner describes as the “intelligent digital mesh.”
April 16, 2019
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By R.C. "Bob" Dirkes
How do recent Z architecture enhancements support applications that run on IBM Z?
April 10, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
If you activate the APPC/MVS timeout service, you can indicate the maximum time interval an application waits before terminating a conversation and regaining control from APPC/MVS callable services.
April 05, 2019
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By Subhasish Sarkar
This article examines three steps for a simple, yet practical implementation of securely exposing your existing IMS transactions as RESTful APIs.
April 03, 2019
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By Subhasish Sarkar
Instead of taking offense to the requirement that their security access be limited, take a fence and protect your key personnel, so they’ll still be there to help pick up the pieces if things do go wrong.
April 01, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Learn the necessary steps for setting up your IMS to get APPC related messages onto the IMS message queues.
March 28, 2019
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By Subhasish Sarkar
David Hyman, president, Center for Technology & Workforce Solutions, explains why millennial mainframers epitomize the professional skill set for reconciling the digital business world’s passion for invention with its angst over obsolescence.
March 26, 2019
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By R.C. "Bob" Dirkes
The winners of the 2018 Master the Mainframe contest were announced at Think 2019 in
San Francisco.
March 22, 2019
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By Keelia Estrada Moeller
There’s a rich set of alternative tools you can use to explore new approaches to application modernization.
March 18, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
When you understand the specifics, you can help your organization avoid a great deal of difficulty.
March 01, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Reg Harbeck highlights wisdom shared in the early days of computing and explains how we can still learn from these principles today.
February 22, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Modernization is not free or without risk but nevertheless it’s essential to keeping an application responsive to business needs.
February 22, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
From security, to optimized configuration, to cost benefits, the mainframe has proven its relevance and reliability time and again.
February 01, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
Application modernization is about reworking or updating an application to better meet current needs. It’s such a simple idea—so, why is it challenging? Modernization can be perplexing for any number of important reasons.
January 16, 2019
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By Joseph Gulla
There are a lot of things the mainframe has that are worth preserving, understanding and building on: business and technical practices, cultural attitudes, tricks and techniques, and more.
January 07, 2019
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By Reg Harbeck
The first step to a more business-focused outcome on the mainframe is to identify the costs and benefits of solutions in place.
December 06, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
Joseph Gulla discusses the future of IT jobs, the availability of skilled human resources and the impact of innovation.
December 03, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
Joseph Gulla discusses IT architects and IT specialists along with other key IT roles—including analysts, consultants, IT security and IT support.
November 21, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
The opportunities for the mainframe are unlimited, especially once you’ve understood the weaknesses, threats and strengths that fill in the context. Together, these factors make SWOT. This article conducts a SWOT analysis of the mainframe platform.
November 14, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
From humble beginnings as part of IBM's 1960s pioneering virtualization research project, VM's Conversational Monitor System (CMS) component was an experiment in OS design explicitly created as a single-user system; it provided what would later be called "personal computing."
November 01, 2018
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By Gabe Goldberg
Parallel Sysplex on IBM Z provides a highly reliable, redundant and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems with one or more coupling facilities to achieve near-continuous availability.
October 23, 2018
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By Mike Fitzpatrick
Backup isn’t archive. It's wonderful having robust near-term data storage recoverable from the worst possible disaster, error or malfeasance. But that's not the same as being able to recover and process your data in a month, year or decade.
October 02, 2018
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By Gabe Goldberg
New mainframers are finally beginning to arrive, and the mainframe shops that take fullest advantage of the mainframe’s strengths. So why aren’t more mainframers getting the word out about this important career choice?
October 01, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
Project management is a growing field and IT project managers are one dimension of this developing profession.
September 17, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
So, you’re working on the mainframe platform. Some of you may have just started working with mainframes, and some of you might be experienced mainframers wanting to know more about specific topics or areas. Where do you start?
August 28, 2018
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By Hemanth Rama
The mainframe community is still standing—though many of our mainframe colleagues have now begun to move on to other pastures. And thanks to initiatives such as zNextGen, a new generation on the mainframe is slowly beginning to form.
August 08, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
Joseph Gulla points out his most valuable and informative IT Trendz series—including IT consolidation, things they didn’t teach him in school and pivotal ideas in IT such as programming languages and middleware.
August 02, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
Imagine being directed by your manager to identify the overall quality of the cryptographic protection for your z/OS network. What exposures do you have? Who is using unapproved protection protocols, or worse, not using any protection at all? Where would you start?
July 25, 2018
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By Michael Gierlach, Chris Meyer and Dave Wierbowski
Joseph Gulla explains the four keynote talks from the Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) conference.
July 17, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
The IBM Doc Buddy app can search error messages of IBM Z software products in online or offline environments
July 02, 2018
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By Yvonne Ma, Emily Siu and Alicia Mao
A multi-cloud strategy can provide a mechanism to migrate away from centralized IT to get to the cloud fast. It will also help integrate old and new platforms and leverage new cost and consumption models to achieve IT transformation.
June 21, 2018
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By Alan Radding
After three decades, competing systems still haven’t caught up with what the mainframe was doing before it was a decade old. So why isn’t the mainframe universally perceived as the top computing platform?
June 21, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
Maturing mainframe culture in time for the future
May 30, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
She started on Interskill, she went to SHARE and she’s starting to master the mainframe. What’s next?
May 17, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
When blockchain first emerged as the next big thing, it arrived as the technology behind bitcoin. At that time, blockchain was an x86 phenomenon. Today it has moved to Linux and runs on multiple platforms, including IBM Z and LinuxONE. From the start, blockchain naturally benefitted from the legendary scalability, reliability, security and flexibility of Z.
May 04, 2018
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By Alan Radding
The technical implementation of consolidation projects has changed considerably over the last decade. Ten years ago, companies were deploying virtualization as a consolidation tactic. Today, centralizing images to IBM Z servers and including cloud-services software are major factor in new consolidation and modernization activities.
April 23, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
IBM Z offers options to analyze data at a deeper and quicker level.
March 21, 2018
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By Steven Astorino
Mid-level technical papers focus on a specific topic related to Db2 for z/OS.
March 07, 2018
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By Kurt Bohnert
Get the most out of mainframe events with preparation, networking and sharing what you learn.
March 07, 2018
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By Nick Daniels
Achieve early career technical leadership through planning and involvement.
February 28, 2018
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By Matthew Cousens
Be prepared for disruptions that will affect the mainframe
February 14, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
IBM Z can help move analytics to the source of data to find deeper, faster wisdom.
February 07, 2018
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By Steven Astorino
Db2 12 helps adapt to modern application development paradigms.
January 31, 2018
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By Gareth Z. Jones
To educate those around you to the mainframe, explain its value, answer questions and provide resources.
January 24, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
Java with IBM Z modernizes through integration, support, tools and more.
January 10, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
Debugging Linux issues can be frustrating. Some general steps can make tackling Linux problems more manageable.
December 20, 2017
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By Tanya Buchanan
IBM offers new container pricing models for IBM Z.
December 13, 2017
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By Alan Radding
IBM Machine Learning offers opportunities for various industries and business solutions.
December 06, 2017
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By Patrick Stanard
Java is at the heart of application modernization on the mainframe.
November 22, 2017
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By Joseph Gulla
Clients share variations in worldwide IBM Z usage
November 15, 2017
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By Gabe Goldberg
DB2 V12 improves the performance of analytical queries on IBM Z.
November 08, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
Pervasive encryption, available on IBM z14, offers complete data protection.
October 25, 2017
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By Alan Radding
Software testing for enterprise computing brings together traditional software and new tools and practices.
October 11, 2017
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By Joseph Gulla
Mainframe organizations are responding to new technology and opportunity with innovation.
September 20, 2017
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By Joseph Gulla
As IBM Z advances and evolves, varied skills are needed.
September 06, 2017
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By Gabe Goldberg
Variety of sessions, topics and speakers is high.
August 23, 2017
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By Joseph Gulla
Learn what sets apart quantum computing, what its future holds and use cases.
August 16, 2017
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By Patrick Stanard
IBM Z is designed to survive and thrive with its stability, continuity and security.
August 02, 2017
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By Reg Harbeck
The utility gives developers flexibility to easily build, run and share application images.
July 26, 2017
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By Keelia Moeller
To help clients enable trust and leadership in a digital economy, IBM introduced the new IBM z14 system centered around three themes: Secure data and transactions, intelligence and insight, and an open and connected enterprise cloud.
July 17, 2017
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By Valerie Dennis
IBM DB2 V12 provides dynamic SQL plan stability.
June 28, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
Knowing your system will ensure that the setup and configuration is secure.
June 21, 2017
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By Reg Harbeck
Blockchain on IBM z Systems and LinuxONE provide security, performance and a business advantage.
June 07, 2017
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By Alan Radding
The insert algorithm reduces time per transaction while increasing the number of inserts.
May 24, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
IBM Machine Learning for z/OS continually provides businesses with new ways to learn.
May 10, 2017
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By Dinesh Nirmal
Tracing the roots of the 'Syntacticized Assembler' and other computer generations.
May 03, 2017
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By Reg Harbeck
IBM z Systems groups are everywhere, you just need to know where to look.
April 12, 2017
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By Monte Bauman and Jennifer Foley
High-performance data transformation on DB2 for z/OS is possible.
April 05, 2017
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By Mehmet Cuneyt Goksu
IBM’s new system provides a revolutionary way to keep up with and act upon data.
March 15, 2017
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By Alan Radding
Whether in an office or working from home, z Systems programmers/administrators can now work from the next office, building, city, time zone or continent.
March 01, 2017
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By Gabe Goldberg
Exploit in-memory computing on DB2 12 for z/OS to realize gains.
February 22, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
The IBM Machine Learning for z/OS platform can continuously create, train and deploy a substantial volume of analytic models at the source.
February 15, 2017
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By Keelia Moeller
Ongoing education a key factor to career success.
February 08, 2017
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By Joseph Gulla
Docker is an open-source project that automates the deploying of Linux applications inside what is known as software containers.
February 01, 2017
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By Patrick Stanard
Get, maintain and grow opportunities in IT enterprise computing.
January 25, 2017
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By Joseph Gulla
IBM DB2 12 for z/OS is ready for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing.
January 11, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
Simplify monitoring console for optimal performance.
January 04, 2017
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By Ernie Gilman
An architect has a huge impact on how fast, good and cheap a project is.
December 21, 2016
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By Donald Gerace
IBM z/VM's Single System Image feature links systems.
December 14, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
IMS Solution Adoption Kits help users with application modernization.
December 01, 2016
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By Poonam Chitale
More seasoned mainframers advise their younger selves and Generation Z workers.
November 23, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
Global Training Providers expand training offerings and reach with new programs.
November 16, 2016
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By Alexander Ziegler
Innovation challenges help bring ideas together to engage creative solutions.
November 09, 2016
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By Tina Tarquinio
Get up to speed quickly with hybrid cloud, analytics, digital business and blockchain.
October 26, 2016
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By Cory Witt
Ensure you have a simple base of statistics before exploiting the Optimizer’s externalization of missing statistics in DB2 11 for z/OS.
October 19, 2016
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By Terry Purcell
Systematic procedures help avoid and solve problems.
October 05, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
The IBM X-Force Exchange is a threat intelligence platform that allows users to stay informed and collaborate with peers.
September 28, 2016
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By Cory Witt
Integrating Spark, DB2 and BigInsights allows users to leverage them effectively.
September 21, 2016
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By Eberhard Hechler
IDCAMS Redpaper focuses on modern issues and tips.
August 24, 2016
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By Valerie Dennis
The IBM database product focuses on continuous delivery to give clients updates quicker.
August 17, 2016
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By Jeff Josten
Destination z celebrates 5 years of being an online z Systems community.
July 18, 2016
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By IBM Destination z
Destination z members discuss what the mainframe community means to them.
July 13, 2016
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By Cory Witt
The people are key to the mainframe community.
July 06, 2016
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By Reg Harbeck
Variety of content and topics among the most-read articles on the Destination z website.
July 01, 2016
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By Valerie Dennis
Avoid common DB2 for z/OS RUNSTATS collection mistakes.
June 29, 2016
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By Terry Purcell
The shared-ledger technology Blockchain helps digitally track and move assets securely.
June 15, 2016
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By Patrick Stanard
Fans of the z/VSE system focus on participation and knowledge sharing to build and maintain a user community.
June 08, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
IBM z Systems offers unmatched security.
May 25, 2016
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By Reg Harbeck
A Diverse Set of Skills Needed for Technical Roles
May 11, 2016
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By Joseph Gulla
Perform a DB2 11 for z/OS migration easier with z/OS Management Facility.
May 04, 2016
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By Kewei Wei and Paul A. McWilliams
Let's not forget the mainframe system software sibling: IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (TPF).
April 27, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
Learn a new approach and prepare for migrating a DB2 system or a DB2 data sharing group with z/OSMF.
April 13, 2016
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By Kewei Wei and Paul A. McWilliams
Integrate cloud and existing in-house systems.
April 06, 2016
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By Joseph Gulla
Using the Docker container on the z Systems platform is easy and efficient.
March 23, 2016
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By Alan Radding
Spark, the open source cluster-based framework, keeps analytics and data on z Systems and Linux.
March 09, 2016
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By Patrick Stanard
In this post, we'll show how to use a stored procedure to call a standard DB2 for z/OS utility, RUNSTATS, from within a mobile app.
February 17, 2016
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By Jane Man and Eric G. Radzinski
New system helps clients unleash digital innovation, hybrid cloud and security.
February 16, 2016
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By Valerie Dennis
Soft skills are necessary for success on the mainframe.
February 10, 2016
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By Frank De Gilio
Build an IBM DB2 for z/OS mobile application With IBM MobileFirst by using regular SQL statements to retrieve a string ID from the SYSIBM.SYSXMLSTRINGS table.
February 03, 2016
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By Jane Man and Eric G. Radzinski
It’s important to give job control language its due respect helping others.
January 13, 2016
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By Reg Harbeck
The debate regarding a mainframe skills issue or shortage of workers isn’t new. Various groups have different views on how pending the shortage of skilled workers is, or if there is a shortage altogether. The problem isn’t a mainframe skills issue, but rather a mainframe skills planning issue.
January 11, 2016
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By Valerie Dennis
Now that we've entered a new era in which we increasingly use our phones and tablets for all types of transactions, mobile access to DB2 for z/OS transactional data is more critical than ever.
January 06, 2016
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By Jane Man and Eric G. Radzinski
With tools, IBM z Systems is inclusive to all.
December 16, 2015
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By Gabe Goldberg
z Council groups bring together customers and IBMers to form a two-way street of discussion and learning.
December 09, 2015
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By Valerie Dennis
New topic to offer helpful tools and tips to enterprise professionals.
November 18, 2015
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By Valerie Dennis
Architects must think in a top-down manner and tackle problems starting with what the “as-is” environment looks like, normally driven by the use of an architectural methodology.
November 11, 2015
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By Bill Seubert
The newest IBM mainframe, the z13, is announced. Find various resources.
October 28, 2015
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By IBM
As mobile use increases, needed to access IBM DB2 information becomes more important.
October 21, 2015
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By Jane Man
The architectural style addresses today’s challenges of agility and scalability of applications.
October 14, 2015
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By Joseph Gulla
People newer to the workforce gain skills through mentors and experiences.
October 07, 2015
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By Alessandria Rhines
The newest OS for the IBM z Systems mainframe, z/OS V2.2, is announced.
September 30, 2015
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By IBM
Project management skills and tools help achieve desired outcome.
September 23, 2015
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By Patrick Stanard
CompTIA helps IT professionals expand to keep up with the evolving platform.
September 15, 2015
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By Caroline Vitse
Flexible mainframe education programs are available.
September 10, 2015
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By IBM
What is all this mentoring stuff and why should I care?
September 02, 2015
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By Frank De Gilio
IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator on the IBM z13 is built for speed.
August 31, 2015
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By Patrick Stanard
Access DB2 data using DB2 Connect JDBC driver and Spark's new DataFrames API.
August 26, 2015
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By Pallavi Priyadarshini and Parameswara R. Tatini
Mainframers give advice and lessons learned on what helps in the real world.
August 19, 2015
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By Gabe Goldberg
Mainframe clients find help from IBM and others to mitigate the effects of a skills shortage.
August 17, 2015
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By IBM Systems Magazine and SHARE
VMs and LPARs opened doors to testing and increasing utilization of computers.
August 12, 2015
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By Joseph Gulla
Desired outcome and choices help determine setup for coupling technology.
August 05, 2015
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By Barbara Weiler and Gary King
Many options for Linux add up to value and customization.
July 22, 2015
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By Joseph Gulla
Not all monoliths are mainframes. But they often have a lot in common beyond their size, solidity and endurance, such as information.
July 15, 2015
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By Reg Harbeck
DevOps offers continuous software delivery and new tools for the mainframe.
July 08, 2015
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By Alan Radding
Application compatibility makes a DB2 11 upgrade easy.
July 01, 2015
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By Chris Crone and Jay Yothers
SHARE attributes 60 years of success to its members and looks to the event in August.
June 24, 2015
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By Valerie Dennis
DevOps and Bluemix are among the offerings for IBM digital business solutions and tools.
June 17, 2015
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By Marcos Sylos
Early enterprise systems virtualization helped programmers work better and faster.
June 10, 2015
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By Joseph Gulla
The IT architect uses “top down thinking” to help with projects.
June 03, 2015
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By Bill Seubert
Solutions are available to help save MIPS and money.
May 20, 2015
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By Avijit Chatterjee
Jeff Frey, IBM Fellow and z Systems CTO, shares with IBM Redbooks his insights on the new IBM z13 mainframe and explains how it can enhance your business.
May 18, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
May 06, 2015
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By Steven Dickens
Many resources and groups are available for mainframers still in school or early in their careers, no matter if they are looking for more training, resources, jobs or a community of like-minded individuals.
May 01, 2015
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By Valerie Dennis
If you've ever wanted to hold a z System server in the palm of your hand or show your family what the computers you work with look like, now's your chance.
April 15, 2015
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By Gabe Goldberg
It’s worth the time and effort to develop security habits.
April 08, 2015
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By Dinesh D. Dattani
Resources allow different levels of control to meet different needs.
April 01, 2015
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By Gabe Goldberg
IBM Redbooks give you what you need, when and where you need it.
March 30, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
I’ve found many functions over the past several z/OS releases that system programmers may not have realized were there.
March 30, 2015
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By Marna Walle
This IBM Redbooks publication provides a list of features and functions that are supported on IBM z Systems.
March 23, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
IBM goes above and beyond testing z Systems to ensure that the mainframe is ready for any environment it could live in.
March 19, 2015
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By IBM z Systems
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) option is a growing desire of employees and an initiative of importance for many employers.
March 18, 2015
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By Joseph Gulla
A bidirectional dictionary of some of the most frequently used terms in everyday projects.
March 16, 2015
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By David Morlitz
This IBM Redbooks publication presents IBM z13 configuration setup scenarios, and describes implementation examples in detail.
March 09, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication highlights the z13 I/O components, functions, typical uses, coexistence and relative merits of these connectivity features.
March 05, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
Watch the new film introducing the IBM z13.
February 26, 2015
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By IBM z Systems
There are many different places to better yourself and find like-minded individuals.
February 25, 2015
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By Gabe Goldberg
This IBM Redbooks publication is a technical introductory guide that provides information and planning advice about the IBM z13 and its functions, features and associated software support.
February 23, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks video provides an overview of the seven main features of the new IBM mainframe.
February 20, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
Learn about the IBM z13 capabilities, with its secure and resilient cloud-ready infrastructure that can integrate data, transactions and insight, for faster and more accurate business decisions.
February 18, 2015
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By IBM Redbooks
Submissions from IBM clients and business partners are being accepted through April 12.
February 18, 2015
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By Valerie Dennis
Simplify SQL statements by writing them to perform more than one operation.
February 11, 2015
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By Meg Bernal
Interesting analogies help explain the mainframe.
January 21, 2015
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By Reg Harbeck
Hadoop on System z is best considered for non-traditional exploration of data that largely originates on the System z platform.
January 07, 2015
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By Alan Radding
Bringing everything together on System z gives organizations and users the best mobile experience.
December 17, 2014
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By Richard Gamblin
Testing, planning and sharing with others helps ensure professional success.
December 10, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
The System z platform is the ‘ultimate virtualized system’ to leverage popular technologies.
December 03, 2014
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By Lauren Williamson
With the right knowledge, developers can identify and use the source of remote data access.
November 19, 2014
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By Kevin Harrison
The issues and transitions mainframers faced in the past help us improve today.
November 12, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
Be more effective in end-to-end monitoring and management with the best products for the job.
November 07, 2014
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By Joseph Gulla
SQL tricks are usually easy to code, but the challenge is when to use what trick. Let’s examine one of the easiest SQL tricks that will provide the most gain: Code smarter WHERE clauses in the optimal sequence.
November 03, 2014
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By Sheryl Larsen
In the past three to four years, the term NoSQL has gone from a curiosity to a must-have component for many database development organizations. This time, the technology brings not only a new storage format, but also new languages for communicating from application to database.
October 13, 2014
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By Bill Bireley
End-to-End Monitoring and Management is Worth the Effort
October 08, 2014
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By Joseph Gulla
New SHARE president James Vincent looks to keep group as the mainframe resource of record.
October 01, 2014
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By Valerie Dennis
At some point, the volume of mobile transactions is sure to impact your peak workload pricing.
September 17, 2014
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By Alan Radding
Having backup plans and defined roles makes the move easier when surprises arise.
September 10, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
Clearly defining the steps and outcome before a move, upgrade or build helps ensure a smooth transition to success.
September 03, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
After decades of experience with tape, IT organizations continue to struggle with the technology. The latest generation of IT professionals, raised on virtual tape, are unfamiliar with physical tape. “Tape gets a bad rap today,” says Jon Toigo, principal, Toigo Partners International, at the IBM Edge2014 conference in May.
August 13, 2014
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By Alan Radding
Since there are many rich features in the IBM Cloud Management Suite for System z, it is important to use them to shape a cloud service for your community of users that makes it effective to use and attractive to consume. Also, it should be done in a way that aligns with the IT culture of your company.
August 06, 2014
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By Joseph Gulla
We want to see what artifacts the Destination z community has. We are looking for the most unique and the oldest artifacts, and will award a $50 prepaid Visa card to the first place winner in each category.
July 21, 2014
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By Valerie Dennis
With the amount of data being produced, we need to figure out how secure is secure enough.
July 09, 2014
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By Reg Harbeck
Many in IT are coming around to the value proposition of running a cloud service on System z.
July 02, 2014
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By Joseph Gulla
How customers now go about their daily lives fuels the rise in the demand for transaction processing at high volume and continuous availability. It would be too simple to say that the System z platform is the best fit for this growth.
June 18, 2014
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By Peter Siddell
Holding on to keepsakes can teach us about a certain time in computing and help us relive our experiences.
June 11, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
We've all seen technologies come and go. Some vanished too soon, good riddance to others. It's always interesting learning computing/career artifacts people have.
June 04, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
IBM sees potential in the African market, and is investing time and resources in the continent.
May 28, 2014
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By Valerie Dennis
Software as a Service provides companies with the authorization to use software or services for a period of time like a rental instead of the traditional model in which companies must buy the software, build the server, install the operating system, install the software and customize it to meet the company business and needs.
May 07, 2014
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By Marcos Sylos
Mainframes—and Mainframers—Can Learn From the Past and One Another
April 23, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
During the 50th anniversary celebration of the mainframe, IBM announced on April 8 new cloud and mobile offerings, increased security, and big data and analytics solutions.
April 08, 2014
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By Valerie Dennis
IBM System z Solution Editions were introduced to demonstrate that running new workloads on System z is both technically viable and cost-effective. These bundles provide competitive bottom-line pricing satisfying diverse requirements.
March 19, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
Welcome to the new mainframe normal. It assumes a new style of computing that encompasses mainframe and distributed systems and mobile and social workloads running alongside traditional mainframe workloads.
March 05, 2014
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By Alan Radding
In a few months the mainframe turns 50. And what this means to IT buyers is that when you buy a mainframe, you’re buying 50 years of continuous improvements in performance and in manageability. A great example of these types of improvements can be found in one of the mainframe’s operating systems, z/OS.
February 19, 2014
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By Joe Clabby
Author Denise Kalm shares advice and an excerpt from her new book, "Career Savvy: Keeping and Transforming Your Job."
February 05, 2014
An introduction to the concept of a process hub that uses IBM Business Process Manager and leverages IBM z/OS quality of service and collocation with systems of record to automate straight-through processing at the core of an enterprise for enhanced business agility.
January 27, 2014
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By Valerie Dennis
This article is part one of a two-part series on IBM solution editions for System z.
January 06, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
While the Mainframe Charter promises ongoing system innovation, value and community, Statements of Integrity provide real-world assurance that critical z/OS and z/VM exposures are promptly remedied.
November 20, 2013
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By Gabe Goldberg
The new mainframe security maturity model shouldn’t be that different from what a competent System z shop should have been doing all along. The difference will be an expanded scope to include mobile, cloud, social and all the new ways users interact with the mainframe; expanded automation; and more analytics.
November 13, 2013
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By Alan Radding
For IBM customers who want to learn how to address these challenges and gain a better understanding of cloud computing and the capabilities that System z, zEnterprise and the IBM Software brands offer them, an updated free online course is available for download at The Value of Cloud Computing on System z.
November 06, 2013
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By Scott Harris
Want to try the different types of IMS SPOCs in your shop but aren't sure where to start? Let’s delve into what a SPOC environment looks like: its components, setup and usage.
October 02, 2013
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By Angelique Greenhaw
Mainframe operations can certainly be affected by mobile security threats to a company's IT system. Enter service virtualization—an especially useful tool for developers that are building complicated mobile apps that integrate deep into an enterprise's IT system.
September 18, 2013
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By Erika Morphy
Moving off the mainframe is not an easy task and shouldn’t be taken lightly. It’s frequently a multi-year, multi-million-dollar effort fraught with risk.
September 11, 2013
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By Janet L. Sun
It’s instructive to tour real-world and virtual computing museums, lovingly created and maintained by generations of professionals—many of whom designed, built and used the equipment written about and displayed.
September 04, 2013
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By Gabe Goldberg
In moving away from the mainframe, many companies create a monster: a tangled mess of technologies and best-of-breed packages that don’t work together and threaten to overwhelm the organization with its cost and complexity.
August 21, 2013
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By Mark Neft
The IBM zEnterprise BC12 is designed to be the entry point into enterprise computing for mid-sized organizations that are seeing growth in a variety of workloads. It provides availability, performance and security in data analytics, consolidation, virtualization, cloud solutions and mobile applications.
August 07, 2013
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By Chris Bowman
As part of IBM’s strategy for mainframe simplification and modernization, the User Experience team has studied the needs of our end users, both experienced and entry-level users. Resulting solutions have included: z/OS Management Facility, CICS Explorer, and IBM Explorer for z/OS V2.1.
July 24, 2013
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By Iris Rivera and Kathryn Briscoe
Misconceptions and myths persist—like the idea that few mainframes remain in use today. The reality is SHARE represents more than 20,000 individuals from nearly 2,000 companies.
July 17, 2013
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By Janet L. Sun
For most mainframe data center managers, social business is barely on the radar screen. Yet, it offers a rich collaboration and social environment—combined with security and the other strengths of System z.
July 10, 2013
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By Alan Radding
The Warning Track implementation on the zEC12 and the Blocked Workload Support in z/OS provide mechanisms to clear lower-priority work out of the way without violating z/OS priority dispatching to any great extent.
June 19, 2013
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By Bob Rogers
The star—and start—of the show is the APAR, from which many other terms follow. An APAR (that is, IBM agreeing a problem exists and assigning a tracking number for it) can result from elaborate customer debugging, a simple “It’s broken” report, or customer/IBM collaboration to research, recreate and document problem details.
June 12, 2013
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By Gabe Goldberg
zNextGen is doing its part in bridging the gap and erasing the differences between younger mainframe professionals and the veterans. This way, both groups can learn from each other and, ultimately, keep up the level of interest in mainframe careers.
June 05, 2013
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By Pedro Pereira
IBM isn’t the only vendor working the System z mobile market. MobileFirst, however, might be the most comprehensive.
May 22, 2013
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By Alan Radding
IBM zAware is a program designed to automatically assist in mainframe troubleshooting by analyzing minute details in systems logs as well as other data relevant to systems and application performance to isolate problems and help discover the cause of anomalous behaviors.
May 15, 2013
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By Joe Clabby
No matter whether called conventional wisdom, best practices or wisdom of the ages—if not formalized, documented, preserved and passed on through generations of mainframers, lessons painfully learned are diluted and lost.
May 01, 2013
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By Gabe Goldberg
The effects of a mass exodus from the mainframe ranks could affect a number of computing trends, not the least of which is big data.
April 17, 2013
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By Pedro Pereira
First implemented on the IBM zEnterprise EC12 processor, Warning Track helps maximize physical CPU utilization without causing the so-called “short engine” effect.
April 10, 2013
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By Bob Rogers
As every business is populated by consumers, the mobility wave washing over enterprise computing is a foregone conclusion. Sessions at SHARE in San Francisco reflected this sense of urgency for mainframers.
April 02, 2013
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By Bob Dirkes
The mainframe community largely wants to protect its enterprise-computing legacy. So it's important to facilitate generational transition with documentation and staff overlaps.
March 20, 2013
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By Gabe Goldberg
Included in last year’s announcement of the zEnterprise EC12, IBM introduced the optional Flash Express. So, what is Flash Express? It’s all about using solid-state drives to improve the performance of certain mainframe tasks.
March 13, 2013
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By Joe Clabby
To help customers understand how the mainframe is an ideal platform for business analytics, IBM offers a free online course, “The Value of Business Analytics on System z.”
March 06, 2013
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By Scott Harris
Formerly, adding more real memory increased the cost of UIC Update, but now it decreases as more memory is added—another real Jiu Jitsu solution, turning the enemy’s strength to your own advantage.
February 20, 2013
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By Bob Rogers
When facing an audit, learn what’s being audited. Review documents auditors will use before they arrive. That will avoid surprises and prepare you better.
January 16, 2013
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By Gabe Goldberg
The innovative dispatching approach called reduced preemption was extremely effective when it was introduced, and today’s systems of 10 or more processors couldn’t even run without it.
January 09, 2013
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By Bob Rogers
No matter where you are in your mainframe career—new arrival or seasoned veteran—here are career-preservation tips for 2013 and beyond.
December 18, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
In the world of IMS, SPOC stands for Single Point of Control, and it’s a function of the IMS Common Service Layer that simplifies IMSplex management.
December 11, 2012
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By Angelique Greenhaw
With 53 percent of the vote, Philip Yeo’s mainframe advice dominated the field in the latest IBM Destination z Tips and Techniques Challenge. The Destination z community forum, the contest asked mainframers to share their best mainframe advice for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card and an IBM Heritage T-shirt.
November 20, 2012
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By Mike Westholder
Chargeback can impose discipline on resource consumption, influence user behavior in desired directions, provide ROI data on initiatives and justify allocating costs to paying customers. And accumulating cost/billing figures aids user budgeting, which allows better data center workload and configuration planning.
November 07, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
The voting deadline has been extended to Nov. 11 in the second Destination z Tips and Techniques contest—which asked Dz members to share their best mainframe advice.
October 15, 2012
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By Mike Westholder
As overall and component reliability has improved, you may occasionally face issues in areas in which you’ve not previously needed to diagnose or report problems. A positive mindset and a few simple practices will usually resolve what’s wrong.
October 10, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
“Part of the challenge of mobile computing is describing the issues and opportunities,” says Ray Sun, SHARE marketing director. “And we believe SHARE as an organization has the experience and insight to lead the discussion of where mobility meets the mainframe and beyond to the whole of enterprise computing.”
October 03, 2012
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By Bob Dirkes
Even though the mainframe is known for security, there's always a risk that an employee—maliciously or by mistake—will threaten an installation's interests. Therefore, comprehensive security requires detecting and defeating insider threats.
September 19, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Big data was a big focus at the recent SHARE conference in Anaheim, Calif. Event organizers devoted two days of conference content to a Big Data Spotlight with a concentration of sessions designed to address the “most pressing big data questions and concerns” of its community.
September 12, 2012
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By Bob Dirkes
“For the first time, there are four generations in the workforce,” said keynote speaker and best-selling author Jason Dorsey at the August SHARE conference in Anaheim, Calif.
September 05, 2012
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By Bob Dirkes
As a first step, mainframe security administrators can put stringent controls and safeguards in place for mobile devices. They should then participate in discussions and dialogue to help build best practices.
August 22, 2012
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By Erika Morphy
The proliferation of mobile devices and the number of transactions that consumers are ringing up through them will have subtly and profound impacts on the mainframe.
August 13, 2012
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By Erika Morphy
A growing expectation among employees is the ability to use their own mobile devices for basic productivity tasks. Increasingly, they expect to be able to access sensitive corporate data via their smartphones.
August 08, 2012
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By Erika Morphy
What’s the best mainframe career advice you’ve ever received? Share it on the Destination z forum page for a chance to win an IBM Heritage T-shirt and a gift card.
August 01, 2012
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By Mike Westholder
Proof-of-concept (POC) demonstration projects can blaze a trail, doing something on a small scale, for the first time, but perhaps changing basic assumptions and potentially influencing an industry or the world.
July 25, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Welcome to the Destination z community site, which offers a one-stop shop for everything related to IBM System z.
July 16, 2012
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By Doug Balog
Anyone who's worked with mainframes has heard cringe-worthy comments about them: misconceptions, misinformation, misunderstandings, etc. While it's tempting to ignore such nonsense, doing so doesn't serve your career, employer or the mainframe community.
June 11, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
June 04, 2012
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By Mike Westholder
BYOD is an irresistible trend. So it's worth exploring to learn what it can provide—not necessarily to economize but to make it secure, integrate it into mainstream IT and avoid costly technology dead ends.
May 23, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Voting is now underway for the first Destination z Tips and Techniques contest. Out of nearly 40 entries, our expert panel selected three finalists. Now Destination z members have until May 18 to vote for their favorite.
May 09, 2012
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By Mike Westholder
While telecommuting has been discussed widely for years, rarely has it been practiced successfully. Consider these tips to address cultural and technical stumbling blocks.
April 23, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
To put big data into perspective, organizations look to analytics tools to address three factors: velocity, variety and volume.
April 16, 2012
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By Renee Boucher Ferguson
IBM has invested heavily in big data analytics, spending more than $14 billion on more than two-dozen analytics-related acquisitions over the past five years. It expects to generate $16 billion in revenue by 2015, according to published reports.
March 21, 2012
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By Renee Boucher Ferguson
IBM Destination z wants your expertise! Submit a mainframe-related tip or technique in our community forum for a chance to win the first Destination z Challenge.
March 12, 2012
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By Mike Westholder
IBM is actively soliciting System z user reviews. Customers who bought System z products are invited to write reviews and leave ratings on the product and their experience.
February 28, 2012
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By Julie Cohen
Because operating without reliable backup risks corporate health and can be a profoundly career-limiting move, the most fundamental resolution for mainframe professionals is ”backup, backup, backup.” But beyond that, some may ask where to start and what to do?
February 14, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Mention the word “mainframe,” and you’re apt to conjure up images of monolithic systems humming along reliably and dependably in the background of modern data centers.
February 03, 2012
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By Dennis O’Flynn
Whether Santa just brought you a zEnterprise System or your workload is happily humming along on a previous technology generation, the arrival of a new year is always a good time for mainframers to review and renew essential security resolutions.
January 10, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Realizing big data’s vast potential requires organizations to understand the value of the large volumes of data they generate and process, and act upon it.
December 12, 2011
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By Pedro Pereira
In October, IBM announced additional zHPF enhancements intended to make it applicable to a larger percentage of client workloads, improving System z scale and resilience.
December 05, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
I continue to be amazed by the mystique and astounding complexity attributed to the job of assuring business workload performance requirements are met.
November 08, 2011
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By Ron Higgin
Despite predictions of doom and gloom, collaborative efforts among businesses, universities, vendors and independent industry organizations will forestall any IT skills shortfall.
November 01, 2011
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By Joe Clabby
The IT Systems Rationalization or Scorpion study produces a set of prioritized recommendations to assist a client in defining a new server-optimization strategy, identifies a more highly optimized alternative enterprise and/or distributed-server architecture, and evaluates the cost and benefits of those alternatives.
October 17, 2011
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By Rick Schoenmann
High Performance Fiber Connectivity (FICON) for System z (zHPF), an enhancement to the z/Architecture, FICON interface architecture and device architectures has been continually improved upon, albeit without much fanfare.
October 03, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
Whether you’re a mainframe customer looking to create a sandbox environment or an independent software vendor (ISV) seeking to delve deeper — IBM System z Personal Development Tool (zPDT) can meet your needs.
September 28, 2011
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By Gita Grube Berg
New z/OS-specific software release, Business Process Manager Advanced, reaffirms IBM's commitment to the mainframe platform.
September 15, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
Even though the entry price is lower, the zEnterprise 114 is nevertheless a mainframe-caliber system that’s just as capable as its bigger counterparts when it comes to workload processing, security and reliability.
August 29, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
The mainframe entices customers in emerging economies.
August 16, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
IBM Rational Software takes mainframe applications and development to a new level
August 04, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
IBM Vice President Ray Jones—a founding force behind Destination z—talks about how the community was conceptualized and initially delivered, its evolution, and his vision for its future.
July 27, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
The majority of students are unaware of what an IBM System z mainframe is, much less how important the computing platform is to industry and to their daily life. They don’t realize the future employment opportunities for those who pursue an education that includes mainframe topics.
July 20, 2011
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By Marc Smith
For IBM clients, ISVs and Business Partners with an interest in the future of the System z platform, the IBM Academic Initiative System z program offers a wealth of resources
July 01, 2011
"Cloud computing" is one of the hottest terms being bandied about today.
July 01, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes
The world was supposed to end on May 21, according to a crazy fringe radio personality and his followers.
July 01, 2011
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By Ryan Rhodes