Blogs

Global Mailbox: Avoiding Resurrected Data

By Scott Guminy posted 4 hours ago
Global Mailbox: Avoiding Resurrected Data What is Global Mailbox? IBM Sterling Global Mailbox helps companies address demands for high availability operations and redundancy with a robust and reliable data storage solution available across geographically distributed locations. It is an add-on to Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway. How does Global Mailbox work? Global Mailbox uses several key concepts to provide a highly resilient B2Bi or SFG deployment. Redundancy Each deployment includes multiple instances of each component within the datacenter to ensure that services are always available. The solution is deployed across ...

IBM StreamSets Client-Managed Control Plane: Advancing On-Premises Real-Time Data Integration

By Tarun Reddy Mabbu posted 4 hours ago
As organizations increasingly look to unlock the full potential of their data by implementing AI into their overall data strategy to drive critical business decisions, the need for high-quality data and seamless integration of data sources becomes paramount. However, the complexities around integrating disparate data sources, limited resources, and regulatory compliance continue to pose significant challenges to delivering real-time, high-quality data for AI and analytics initiatives. IBM StreamSets, as part of IBM's Data Fabric, offers real-time data integration capabilities for streaming data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With ...

Leading European insurer assures GDPR compliance with BMC on IBM Z®

By Kimberly Sackett posted 6 hours ago
A leading European insurer leverages BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) running on IBM Z ® to maintain and expand its critical business systems. The Challenge The European insurer prioritizes customer proximity with flexible sales channels, 24-hour emergency services, and legal assistance, which heavily burdens its infrastructure. Featuring IBM Z, the infrastructure includes 58 million CICS transactions and seven billion SQL requests, managing 290 TB of total system data. To combat the burden while generating new revenue, the company needed to grow its software development team to innovate customer-facing apps while ensuring compliance ...

How AI Agents, WatsonX, and Python are revolutionizing Planning Analytics

By Andrew Leighton posted 6 hours ago
AI Agents, WatsonX, and Python - The Future of Planning Analytics (with Nic Renotte, Chief AI Officer, IBM) In this exciting conversation, Andrew Leighton and Steve Waterbury sit down with Nic Renotte from IBM to dive deep into the world of AI Agents, WatsonX, Python, and how they’re revolutionizing Planning Analytics. We explore how cutting-edge technologies are shaping the future of business planning, automation, and data analysis. Whether you’re a developer, data enthusiast, or business leader, there’s something here for everyone. The game-changing role of AI in automation. How WatsonX is reshaping the analytics landscape. Python’s ...

Global Mailbox: Monitoring

By Scott Guminy posted 6 hours ago
Global Mailbox: Monitoring What is Global Mailbox? IBM Sterling Global Mailbox helps companies address demands for high availability operations and redundancy with a robust and reliable data storage solution available across geographically distributed locations. It is an add-on to Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway. How does Global Mailbox work? Global Mailbox uses several key concepts to provide a highly resilient B2Bi or SFG deployment. Redundancy Each deployment includes multiple instances of each component within the datacenter to ensure that services are always available. The solution is deployed across multiple data ...

Updates to End of Support for Planning Analytics 2.0.9.x.

By Michael McGeein posted 7 hours ago
At IBM, feedback is a critical component of our roadmap, helping underscore our commitment to client success and their continued use of our products and offerings. Our customers have expressed concerns about migrating to Planning Analytics 2.1.x before the end of the support timeline for Planning Analytics 2.0.9.x on April 30, 2025. As a result, we are extending the general support period for Planning Analytics 2.0.9.x until October 31, 2025. Extended support, an additional purchase beyond general support, will be available for an additional year, until October 31, 2026. It’s important to note that IBM Planning Analytics versions will normally ...

Analyze Financial Data in IBM TM1/Planning Analytics with a Single Click: Integrating TM1 REST API, ChatGPT API, and Planning Analytics Workspace

By NICK PLOWDEN posted 7 hours ago
Written by Jim Naff, IBM TM1/Planning Analytics Finance Systems Manager at Coursera Recently, I developed a prototype solution to streamline financial data analysis, combining IBM TM1 REST API, ChatGPT’s API, and Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) into a seamless user experience. Initially, I built a similar application using Google Sheets, even writing an article to showcase its functionality. However, I realized that performing this analysis directly within PAW would provide a far superior experience for users, integrating the analysis more naturally with their financial workflows. This project allows users to analyze data with a single click, leveraging ...

IBM z/OS DFSMS Cloud Data Manager 1.2 Webcast and Announcement!

By Alexis Ricci posted 7 hours ago
Hi Mainframers, we have a Webcast coming up on December 12th talking about z/OS DFSMS Cloud Data Manager! IBM solutions to help you exploit cloud storage in z/OS Cloud storage is everywhere, in both our personal and profession lives. Organizations continue to look for ways to exploit it to improve the cost effectiveness of data access and retention. This includes the need to exploit cloud or object storage from z/OS. Come learn what IBM solutions are available to help you exploit cloud or object storage in z/OS. The subject matter experts will be available for live Q&A at the end of the session. Event Time: 11:00 AM ...

How to enable analytics monitoring for the applications running on IBM Cloud Code Engine by leveraging Cisco AppDynamics and its Analytics Transactions feature

By ALFREDO CAPPARIELLO posted 8 hours ago
Summary This purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to enable analytics monitoring for the applications running on IBM Cloud Code Engine by leveraging Cisco AppDynamics and its Analytics Transactions feature. Importance of Analytics monitoring for applications Analytics monitoring is becoming a key instrument in IT strategy and design; understanding users’ behaviour is essential for applications optimisation. Businesses users, in domain such as finance, marketing and sales, access real-time data that give insights like the entire users’ journey within the applications. This help to enhance applications’ value, reduce overall costs ...

Reinventing IAM: AI in Identity Verification and Access Management

By Andrej Kovacevic posted 12 hours ago
Identity verification and access management are dramatically changing the global digital security market. Traditional password-based authentication and manual identity checks are insufficient to handle the modern landscape of security threats. Cyber attacks become more and more sophisticated, leading to increasing risks of identity theft and data breaches. Along with that, legacy systems are often inefficient, breach-prone, and vulnerable to human error. This is where AI technology comes into place. Due to machine learning and automation embedded within the AI solution, one can expect better accuracy, speed, and greater user satisfaction. Modern AI innovations ...

Configuring Alerts in Cloud Logs using Event Notification channel

By Vignesh Vijayan posted 14 hours ago
Configuring Alerts in Cloud Logs using Event Notification channel In this tutorial, you learn how to set up alert notifications in IBM Cloud Logs with IBM Cloud Event Notifications. Before You Begin Ensure prerequisites like an IBM Cloud account with necessary permissions are met. Your IBM Cloud Log Monitoring instance and IBM Cloud Event Notifications instances must be in the same region to communicate with one another. Step 1: Log in to IBM Cloud Log in to your IBM Cloud account. Click IBM Cloud dashboard to launch the IBM Cloud dashboard. Log in with your user ID and password. The IBM Cloud Dashboard opens. Step 2: ...

Integrating IBM Storage Insights with Jira for Ransomware Alerts

By Randhir Singh posted 17 hours ago
Introduction IBM Storage Insights (SI) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that identifies incidents across storage systems that it monitors. These incidents can range from minor system glitches to critical security vulnerabilities (like ransomware). Once an incident is identified, a Jira bug can be created to track and manage it. For example, a potential Ransomware attack needs to be triaged by security analysts by analyzing it and correlating the information from different sources. In this blog post, you will learn how to send SI Ransomware alerts notifications in real-time to Jira and create a bug automatically in a ...

IBM SPSS Statistics 書籍紹介

By YOICHIRO NISHIMAKI posted 22 hours ago
新刊紹介 SPSSとAmosによる心理･調査データ解析（第4版）―因子分析・共分散構造分析まで [著者] 小塩 真司 出版社] 東京図書 [内容] メニューを選択するだけで簡単にデータ解析ができるSPSSやAmosを十分に使いこなす、論文作成に役立つ最強の統計処理ガイドブック！　授業評価の要因、友人獲得尺度などのデータを用いて、さまざまな分析手法の実行手順と結果の見方を紹介。また、その分析手法がどのようなデータに適応できるのか、結果として何が得られるのか、などにも丁寧に解説。 SPSSでやさしく学ぶ統計解析　第7版 [著者] 石村貞夫 他 出版社] 東京図書 [内容] 全ての手順が画像つきで解説され操作に迷わない。はじめてでも手順通りにデータを入力、クリックするだけで分析は完了。出力結果の読み取りもポイントを押さえた解説ですぐ理解できる。入門書であっても必要な統計学の知識が得られるように、グラフ表現や度数分布表、相関と回帰、推定と検定、クロス集計表、分散分析、時系列データ、……と内容は盛りだくさん。手を動かしながら基礎知識をしっかり身につけよう。SPSS最新版にいち早く対応。 SPSSでやさしく学ぶ多変量解析　第6版 [著者] 石村貞夫 他 出版社] 東京図書 [内容] データの情報をいかに空間上に表現し、読み取るか。ＳＰＳＳを使えば数式や行列の計算の心配なしに結果も必要な図も瞬時に得られる。重回帰分析から主成分分析、因子分析、判別分析、クラスター分析、多次元尺度法。さらにロジスティック回帰分析とベイズ統計による重回帰モデルの比較も追加。初心者でも多変量解析の面白さが実感できる，一番やさしい手順書。 ...

IBM Cloud Containers - November 2024 "Private path NLB"

By John Wen posted yesterday
OpenShift 4.17 GA We are excited to announce the availability of OpenShift version 4.17 for your clusters that are running in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud . This marks our 16th release of OpenShift. In addition to all the great OpenShift features provided in this release, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud version 4.17 also includes numerous component updates that our community is excited about. Some of the highlights for the release include: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 : In addition to RHEL8 and RHCOS availability, we’ve made RHEL 9 the default operating system for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud version 4.17 Classic and VPC clusters. ...

OpenShift version 4.17 now available in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

By Elvin Galarza posted yesterday
We are excited to announce the availability of OpenShift version 4.17 for your clusters that are running in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud . This marks our 16th release of OpenShift. Our OpenShift service ensures a straightforward upgrade experience by using the IBM Cloud console , sparing you the need for extensive OpenShift expertise with just a few clicks! For more information and methods on upgrading your cluster, look here . When you deploy new clusters , the default OpenShift version remains 4.16 (soon to be 4.17); however, you have the flexibility to opt for immediate deployment of ...

Telum II: the wait is nearly over

By Sarah Bowden posted yesterday
As 2025 approaches, mainframe watchers will be eagerly awaiting the release of IBM's new Telum II processor , the next evolution of its innovative Telum chip. Telum II is expected to deliver significant performance improvements to the mainframe, particularly for running AI and Generative AI Large Language Model (LLM) workloads. The original Telum chip, launched three years ago, introduced onboard AI inferencing to the z16 mainframe , allowing it to process AI tasks locally, which is crucial for applications that need real-time decision-making. Telum came with an on-chip AI accelerator that was shared across the eight cores (the brains of the processor) ...

Red Hat Products - November 2024 releases

By Ashwini Sule posted yesterday
In the month of November, following Red Hat products were released on IBM Power. Product Released on Highlights Pipelines 1.16.1 8, Nov With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.16.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 and later versions. Fixed issues: The records from Tekton Results load correctly in the web console. The Pipelines as Code controller does not crash when using Pipelines as Code with a Bitbucket Git repository. You can use the web console to start a pipeline or task that defines ...

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, v8.0 SR8 FP35 (8.0.8.35) (Quarterly update) Released!

By Archana Nogriya posted yesterday
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, v8.0 SR8 FP35 (8.0.8.35) (Quarterly update) Released! We are pleased to announce the general availability of IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, v8.0 SR8 FP35 (8.0.8.35) across all supported platforms. The binaries have been made available across all distribution sites as of December 5th, 2024. This release is based on Oracle's October’24 CPU update. IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, v8.0 SR8 FP35 contains the following key updates in addition to security fixes and bug fixes: IBM security features, as listed in Security-guide Download Links: 
 IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, ...

Telum II: the wait is nearly over

By Sarah Bowden posted yesterday
As 2025 approaches, mainframe watchers will be eagerly awaiting the release of IBM's new Telum II processor , the next evolution of its innovative Telum chip. Telum II is expected to deliver significant performance improvements to the mainframe, particularly for running AI and Generative AI Large Language Model (LLM) workloads. The original Telum chip, launched three years ago, introduced onboard AI inferencing to the z16 mainframe , allowing it to process AI tasks locally, which is crucial for applications that need real-time decision-making. Telum came with an on-chip AI accelerator that was shared across the eight cores (the brains of the processor) ...

Liberty z/OS Post #69- SMF 120-12 Accounting Data

By David Follis posted yesterday
This post is part of a series exploring the unique aspects and capabilities of WebSphere Liberty when running on z/OS. We'll also explore considerations when moving from WebSphere traditional on z/OS to Liberty on z/OS. To start at the beginning, follow this link to the first post. --------------- Like the last post, this too is lifted from my blog series on Java Batch. Last time we talked about the SMF 120 subtype 12 records that are written for Java Batch jobs run inside WebSphere Liberty. A topic we didn’t get to was how you know who submitted which job (which might be related to who gets the bill for the CPU used by the job!). ...