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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
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
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
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
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
Joseph Gulla explains the four keynote talks from the Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) conference.
July 17, 2018
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By Joseph Gulla
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
Be prepared for disruptions that will affect the mainframe
February 14, 2018
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By Reg Harbeck
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
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
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 DB2 V12 provides dynamic SQL plan stability.
June 28, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
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
Tracing the roots of the 'Syntacticized Assembler' and other computer generations.
May 03, 2017
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By Reg Harbeck
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
Exploit in-memory computing on DB2 12 for z/OS to realize gains.
February 22, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
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
IBM DB2 12 for z/OS is ready for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing.
January 11, 2017
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By Gareth Z. Jones
More seasoned mainframers advise their younger selves and Generation Z workers.
November 23, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
Innovation challenges help bring ideas together to engage creative solutions.
November 09, 2016
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By Tina Tarquinio
Systematic procedures help avoid and solve problems.
October 05, 2016
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By Gabe Goldberg
IDCAMS Redpaper focuses on modern issues and tips.
August 24, 2016
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By Valerie Dennis
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
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
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
It’s important to give job control language its due respect helping others.
January 13, 2016
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By Reg Harbeck
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
People newer to the workforce gain skills through mentors and experiences.
October 07, 2015
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By Alessandria Rhines
Mainframers give advice and lessons learned on what helps in the real world.
August 19, 2015
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By Gabe Goldberg
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
Submissions from IBM clients and business partners are being accepted through April 12.
February 18, 2015
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By Valerie Dennis
Interesting analogies help explain the mainframe.
January 21, 2015
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By Reg Harbeck
Testing, planning and sharing with others helps ensure professional success.
December 10, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
The issues and transitions mainframers faced in the past help us improve today.
November 12, 2014
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By Gabe Goldberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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