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Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE use the s390x hardware architecture, so for some applications a little work sometimes has to be done so they compile and run as expected. This work is often done as a collaboration between the open source projects themselves and a team at IBM that helps with validation that the software is working as expected. This effort is an on going collaboration with every release of the software needing to be validated. For the month of October 2024, the team worked to also validate recent versions of the following: Alfresco Ansible Apache Cassandra Apache Cloudstack Apache CouchDB Apache Kafka Apache Tomcat Bazel ...
Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world's most innovative companies as they share how they're expanding horizons and driving success with IBM Z. This month we welcome ACI Worldwide, a leader in software for real-time electronic payments. Joining us is product director Ray Caradine. He’s here to talk about current trends in the payments landscape, and some of the experiences ACI’s clients have had processing payments on the IBM Z platform. Evolving the Payments Ecosystem with ACI Worldwide “Customers are demanding faster time-to-market, and faster responses. They want more flexibility in the way that they can process payments,” ...
If you have a critical REST APIs for CICS applications using z/OS Connect and these mainframe applications might experience slowdowns and/or outages from time to time check out this deep dive video in how you can monitor your CICS and z/OS Connect workload and solve monitoring problems by using a combination of IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM and IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS.
Hello New to Z folks! We have brought IBM Z Tech Bytes to you just for being a member of our community. This a great opportunity to enhance your knowledge on IBM Z! Watch select Tech Bytes sessions, take a short quiz and earn three brand new badges ! See all details below. Happy learning! Your New to Z team @IBM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tech Bytes November 4-14, 2024 Virtual Technical Training Series: Beginner to Advanced Presented by the IBM Z Washington Systems Center at IBM Deepen your tech skills across IBM Z including z/OS Performance, Hybrid Cloud, AI on IBM Z, z/OS Communications ...
I had an English teacher back in school who was a super hard grader; if you got good feedback on a paper you knew it truly meant something. Recently I was walking my dog and wore a new fleece jacket - and a neighbor complimented the color. The last time I got a new haircut an acquaintance thought it was awesome. We all love validation, especially from a tough crowd. And that's exactly how I felt when I recently saw that IBM was awarded Technology Partner of the Year FY24 by Infosys Finacle. It's tough to get this type of prestigious recognition when there are so many great partners out there. In this case the winner ...
IBM z/OS 3.1 was announced on August 8th, 2023 and made generally available September 29th, 2023. z/OS 3.1 intends to follow the traditional z/OS continuous delivery (CD) model by delivering new features and enhanced capabilities quarterly, which is intended to avoid the effort of a full release upgrade with no impact to stability, complexity or costs. The following enhancements have been delivered for z/OS 3.1 in 4Q 2024. Please note : These z/OS announcements will now be published on this z/OS Community page . To stay up to date, please ‘Join Community’ to ensure you don’t miss an announcement! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
A Game Changing Series - Cloud Data Access (CDA) Table of Contents: Part 1 Introduction to CDA Part 2 CDA Enhancements: New and Updated Keywords (OA65224) Part 3 CDA Enhancements: New and Updated Keywords Deep Dive Part 4 CDA Microsoft Azure Support (OA65925) Part 5 CDA Signed Payload Support (OA65989) Part 6 CDA Enhancements: Long Object Name, Text Conversions, Credential Management (OA65990) More content on the way!
Yasemin Ciftcisoy Sen is a seasoned Z system programmer with over three decades of experience in the technology industry. She currently serves as the Z Cloud Middleware and Communication Technologies Manager at Garanti BBVA. If you were to ask about her favorite IBM product, she wouldn’t be able to pick just one. She’s a fan of IBM CICS TS, IBM MQ and IBM Omegamon , explaining that these products provide resilient environments for an online Z workload. As an IBM Champion for the past year, she has demonstrated her commitment to advocating for IBM products and the technology community through feedback, community involvement, and sharing her expertise. ...
By Prashantha Subbarao , Andrew Sica , Pradipta Ghosh In November of last year we announced the AI Toolkit for IBM Z and LinuxONE, which provides IBM Elite support for a key optimized set of open-source AI libraries and model servers. This offering is designed to enable enterprises to leverage these frameworks in production with confidence. Information about the offerings supported within the AI Toolkit for IBM Z and LinuxONE can be found here . We are pleased to announce the addition of IBM Z Accelerated for PyTorch to the list of AI frameworks supported by the AI Toolkit. IBM Z Accelerated for PyTorch features the ability to exploit IBM Z ...
A Game Changing Series part 6 - Cloud Data Access (CDA) CDA Cornucopia of Enhancements If you haven’t seen the rest of the Game Changing Series Blog posts you can check them out here to get a high-level explanation of CDA and the other enhancements! The CDA team has been hard at work, ignoring their Holiday preparations and instead, preparing a cornucopia of plentiful enhancements for you! 1 GDKUTIL Enhancements 1.1 Long Object Name One of the requests we’ve gotten is to allow continuation characters or some way to specify an object name longer than 72-80 characters long. Of course, you could ...
IDUG ist nach wie vor einer der beliebtesten Treffpunkte, wenn es um Db2-Expertise geht. In diesem Jahr traf sich die Db2 Community abermals in großer Zahl, in Valencia. Es war begeisternd zu sehen, wie viele Teilnehmer wieder Lust auf einen Wissensaustausch zu Themen rund um Db2 hatten. Auch aus DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz) haben sich wieder viele Teilnehmer auf den Weg gemacht, um technische Neuigkeiten, Best Practices oder den neuesten Flurfunk aus erster Hand zu erfahren. Aber nicht nur als Teilnehmer, sondern auch mit eigenen Erfahrungsberichten und Präsentationen waren mehrere Kunden aus DACH aktiv beteiligt. Und schon mal ...
This blog post is by Michelle Harris, Senior Manager, Product Services and Development, Macro 4 Limited Macro 4: Our Open DevOps Journey (Part 3) This is the third and final article in the series in which I describe Macro 4's transition to a modern Open DevOps environment for the mainframe. In the second post, I explained how we initially adopted Eclipse and a variety of related tools and the challenges we had to tackle along the way. In this article, I'll explain how we have since switched to the VS Code IDE along with the likes of GitLab and Docker and to explain some of the advantages these solutions are delivering. I will also summarize our learnings ...
During the bustling holiday season, IBM Z and Hybrid Cloud emerge as the backbone of retail success, ensuring seamless operations and customer satisfaction. Supporting Retail in the Holiday Season IBM Z's robust infrastructure and hybrid cloud capabilities have been instrumental in handling the increased retail demand during the holidays. From ensuring smooth transactions to managing vast data, IBM Z has been the unsung hero of this season's retail success. AI and Real-Time Integration The integration of AI and real-time data processing has transformed the retail experience, offering personalized customer service and efficient operations. IBM ...

Teaching JCL

The November Educator Hub lecture series included a discussion on teaching IBM z/OS JCL, Job Control Language. Download the presentation material using this hyperlink. Several points were stressed about teaching JCL: 1) JCL is NOT a language. 2) JCL enables location and loading of a program into memory for processing 3) JCL enables redirection of internal program 'file names' to z/OS managed resources 4) System utilities are NOT JCL 5) JCL just grew as customer needs appeared 6) JCL was a rather genius idea to allow for original mainframe architectural design concurrent with the design of many new peripheral I/O devices ...
We are so excited to announce the GA of IBM Z Backup Resiliency version 2.1! This has been a long-awaited release and includes key features that set the foundation for the future of resiliency within the IBM Z AIOps portfolio. IBM Z Backup Resiliency (IZBR) is an outstanding product that works to significantly enhance your organizations resiliency, while streamlining and automating key recovery processes. Looking at past and latest headlines, resiliency is a major buzzword we see all throughout the news. IZBR continues to eliminate resiliency barriers by offering a comprehensive view of your backup and recovery process, presented in a way that is easily understood, ...
The IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3.13 is now available as a container image for z/OS Container Platform . With this, you can now run your Python workloads in a container. This blog will teach you how to run a sample Python script within a container. Prerequisites z/OS System with z/OS Container Platform installed An SMP/E license for the Open Enterprise SDK for Python and z/OSCP that come with their respective entitlement keys Entitlement keys should be found in the attached entitlement memos Obtaining the Python Container images To obtain the Python images, you can run the following commands: podman pull icr.io/zoscp/python:latest ...
Digital data is increasingly framed as the basis of contemporary economies, representing an important new asset class. As organisations look to extract the full value of their digital data to help keep their businesses successful there is also the realisation of the spread of digital data; often making it difficult to identify or even extract. Digital data exists in pretty much every corner of every business – ranging from simple excel spreadsheets to mainframe-maintained data. Everybody knows that Informatica is a market leader in Data Management, as attested to by being leader in multiple Gartner™ “Magic Quadrants” for multiple years. However, did you ...
On October 29, 2024 the Fedora Linux community released Fedora 41, which includes support for IBM Z and LinuxONE. Congratulations to the Fedora community on release and the continued support for s390x, which has been included since mid-2011 with the release of Fedora 15. You can read the release announcement for Fedora 41 in Fedora Magazine here: Fedora Linux 41 is here! And visit Fedora Alternate Architectures for more on how to download the latest version for s390x, with more details outlined in the documentation under Supported Platforms: s390x . If you're interested in joining the Fedora Linux community for s390x, they have a mailing list ...
IBM Z AIOps Unite Beta Program is now open ! Mainframe operations teams are entrusted with ensuing complete business continuity, being asked to do more with less, all while the digital landscape produces more data, more events and more noise. Talking with our customers, we’ve identified their major challenges lie in quickly identifying the most critical alerts, validating the root cause of this disruption or sub-optimal performance, and having the right information or recommendations confidently take problem solving actions. Back in April (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ddalteri_ibmz-ibmz-zaiops-activity-7188874109420781568-PJeB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop), ...
A new path to resilient IT operations for mainframe and distributed teams? A familiar foe A Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report found that 89% of enterprises are using a multi-cloud strategy with technologies spanning across on-premises, cloud, and mainframe systems. This increasing complexity requires seamless collaboration across teams to avoid performance issues and security risks. But “seamless collaboration” is far from reality. It’s no secret silos between cloud and mainframe teams still exist for many IT organizations today. But why? If the problem were easy to solve through organizational structure, culture, and/or leadership ...
IBM® Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 22.0, the follow-on product to Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 20.0, is a server-side JavaScript runtime environment available on z/OS. Node.js is one of the fastest-growing language runtimes in the market with a large open - source community. The popularity of Node.js is driven by its simplicity and massive ecosystem with over two million npm packages that can be used instantly in applications. The planned availability date is November 15, 2024. What’s New in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 22.0 Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 22.0 is based on the Node.js 22 community release which ...
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3.13 is a port of the open - source Python Software Foundation (PSF) community 3.13 release. It is a 64-bit XPLINK application with enhancements for EBCDIC support. Th is popular Python open - source language help s you take advantage of z/OS platform to accelerate business transformation and modernization by enabling powerful frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML), DevOps, and automation. The planned availability date is November 15, 2024. What's new in the IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3.13 Enabled for the IBM z/OS Container ...
Easier management and tuning with Red Hat OpenShift 4.17 on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE Author: Jerry (Gerald) Hosch ( hosch@de.ibm.com ) Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 4.17, the latest version, is available on IBM Z ® and IBM ® LinuxONE and supports the following enhancements: Hosted Control Plane ( fully supported for deployment in production) CPU manager Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) support for LPAR and IBM z/VM® Tuning etcd latency tolerances Secondary Scheduler Assisted Installer support for LPAR and NVMe The new capabilities mainly help to ease the management. Hosted Control ...
Why it’s essential to focus more on Discovery phase of Application modernization The "Understand and Discovery" phase of watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) is a critical, yet often overlooked aspect of mainframe application modernization. This phase focuses on understanding the application landscape, extracting consumable information about mainframe software assets, and building an inventory of applications and their resource usage and dependencies. By investing more time and resources in the Discovery phase, organizations can better prepare for the modernization process, leading to more efficient and successful transformations. During the Discovery ...
Infor develops and supports over 125 applications that run on the IBM Z platform. These applications have been installed and are running at top worldwide financial, retail, and manufacturing companies. Our customers have implemented these applications on the IBM Z enterprise platform due to its unbeatable capabilities in terms of performance, agility privacy, and resiliency. Our IBM Mainframe customers have a long mutually beneficial relationship with IBM. One of the Infor E Series Financial customers has been a loyal customer for over 30 years. This customer is a worldwide financial institut ion that has licensed several E Series ...
z/OS V2R2 ( APAR OA51647 適用後)、 z/OS V2R3 以降では、「 IBM z14 」以降のサーバーで稼働する場合に限り、「 IEP 」( Instruction-Execution-Protection )新機能(非実行可能メモリー)が使用可能です。 ※ z/OS 3.1 は「 IBM z14 」サーバーが稼働前提となるため、「 IEP 」新機能が常に使用可能です 【「 IEP 」新機能とは】 ■「 IEP 」は「 EXECUTABLE=NO 」指定で確保されたストレージ(非実行可能メモリー)領域でのプログラム・コード(命令)実行を禁止する新機能で、例えば、 EX ( EXECUTE )命令のターゲットが「非実行可能メモリー」領域に存在する場合など「 ABEND0C4-4 」(保護例外)が発生します。 ■新機能を利用することで、「 STACK 」、「 HEAP 」ストレージのように通常はデータしか含まれない領域での意図せぬ命令実行を禁止することが可能となり、システム全体の更なるインテグリティー向上に役立ちます。 ■「非実行可能メモリー」領域を確保する方法 ・・・ いずれも、省略時解釈は「 EXECUTABLE= YES 」(実行可能メモリー) ※ 31 ビット領域(私用域サブプール): STORAGE OBTAIN, EXECUTABLE=NO (対象サブプール: 0-127 、 129-132 ...
Introduction: IBM Host On-Demand Client pages can be opened using the HOD Launcher solution, which utilizes system-configured Java to run the application. Problem: If multiple versions of Java are installed on the machine, it may restrict the usage of specific versions needed to launch the HOD application. Solution: Use HOD Launcher with a Specific Java Runtime Starting from IBM Host On-Demand version 15, the HOD Launcher supports using a specific version of the Java runtime to launch applications. An additional parameter, HOD_LAUNCHER_JAVA , has been added to the launcher to select a specific JRE version for launching the HOD application. ...
Summary This document explains using PCOMM FTP Client with a secure host connection. Personal Communications FTP Client with Secure Connection The Personal Communications FTP client uses the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to transfer files between local and remote machines. It allows uploading and downloading files and navigating directories on both the local and remote systems. The Personal Communications FTP client supports the following servers: · UNIX · iSeries® (AS/400®) · Windows · z/OS® MVS™ · VMS Pre-requisite : Ensure ...
English version below. Vom 21. bis 24. Oktober fand die IBM TechXchange im Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas statt – eine Veranstaltung, die Technologie- und Innovationsbegeisterte aus aller Welt zusammenbrachte. Die Teilnehmenden erwartete ein umfangreiches Programm mit spannenden Sessions rund um IBM Z und das gesamte IBM-Ökosystem sowie ein inspirierender Messestand mit zahlreichen Technologiepartner:innen und beeindruckenden Demopunkten. Zu den Highlights gehörten beeindruckende Legomodelle des IBM Quantum Computers und des Mainframes, die das Publikum gleichermaßen faszinierten. Die vier Tage waren gefüllt mit inspirierenden Keynotes, hands-on Labs und ...

Our Network

Check out all the replays from IBM Z Day 2024 here . Filter by 'Journeys — Startups' to see talks from the IBM Z Day: Startup Journey! IBM and Beyond At the IBM Z ScaleUp Program, we rely on our strong network to provide the best possible experience to our startups and scaleups. Within IBM, we work with full-time experts and facilitators as well as SMEs (subject matter experts) from across the IBM Z ecosystem. We often collaborate with development and enablement teams for IBM Cloud, IBM Z, and IBM LinuxONE products and services to create custom builds for our scaleups. As companies progress further into their journey with IBM, we introduce ...