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IBM watsonx Assistant for Z - How to leverage Z AIOps skills

By Wolfgang Schäberle posted Mon January 27, 2025
Introduction IBM watsonx™ Assistant for Z is a generative AI solution, transforming and simplifying the way Z users of all experience levels engage and interact with the mainframe to ...

Fall means working on skills!

By Sherri Hanna posted Wed September 18, 2024
Whether it is back to school or improving your IT skills and marketability, now is the time to take advantage of the virtual and in-person training that the DevSecOps Community is providing this October. ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.8 released

By Coco Yin posted Thu July 11, 2024
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.8 has been released. In this release, support is added for IBM Test Accelerator for Z , which offers a method to record the interactions of a program-under-test ...

Learn hands-on DevOps with IBM Z "DevOps from the Trenches" video series

By Danlei Zhang posted Thu April 18, 2024
Product demo videos demonstrate the product's key features and usage. They can not only provide hands-on instructions to existing users, but also help establish credibility and expectation for potential ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.7 released

By Coco Yin posted Mon April 01, 2024
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.7 has been released. In this release, support is added for the host configuration of Enterprise SDK for Python (HAMBxxx), which is a prerequisite ...

Accessing a mini-dump using IBM Fault Analyzer inside IBM Developer for z/OS v16

By Chris Sayles posted Tue March 12, 2024
This tutorial shows how to access a mini-dump inside of a Fault Entry using IBM Fault Analyzer inside IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) version 16. IBM Fault Analyzer (FA) makes ABEND root-cause analysis simpler ...

Westfield Insurance Manages their Hybrid Transformation Efforts Using Cloud and On-Premise DevOps

By Sherri Hanna posted Mon March 04, 2024
Westfield Insurance, a leading property and casualty (P&C) insurance company in the United States, was founded on rich tradition and the cultivation of lasting relationships going back 176 years. ...

Git and IDz v16 - Comparing source between local remote repositories

By Chris Sayles posted Thu February 08, 2024
This tutorial will take you through a very quick, very useful function in IBM Developer for z Systems when using Git: comparing differences in source members between your local repository (or working tree) ...

Creating custom menu options using Menu Manager in IDz v16

By Chris Sayles posted Thu February 08, 2024
Menu Manager is a framework that extends the IBM Developer for z Systems context menu system. It provides access to TSO/ISPF mainframe resources through custom menu actions that invoke TSO commands. The ...

Connecting to a Db2 database and viewing Db2 table data in IDz v16 with Db2 for z/OS

By Chris Sayles posted Thu February 08, 2024
IBM Developer for z Systems version 16 now comes available with the new Db2 for z/OS tools, allowing you to work with Db2 data and SQL inside of IDz without the use of 3rd party plugins. This tutorial ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.6 released

By Coco Yin posted Mon November 06, 2023
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.6 has been released. The following updates have been made in 3.6 : You can now find the information about downloading, installation information, ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.5 released

By Coco Yin posted Fri June 30, 2023
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.5 has been released. In this release, support is added for the host configuration of Wazi Deploy (HAMOxxx), which provides a scriptable method to ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.4 released

By Coco Yin posted Fri December 09, 2022
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.4 has been released. The following updates have been made in 3.4: IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development is updated to support ...

Help influence the future of z/OS development

By Sherri Hanna posted Wed August 10, 2022
As a regular course, IBM gathers feedback from customers who are members of leadership councils, user groups, product sponsor users, NPS surveys etc, but we also like to hear from the general enterprise ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.3 released

By Coco Yin posted Fri March 18, 2022
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.3 has been released. The following updates have been made in 3.3: Support is added for the host configuration of Wazi Code 2.0 delivered in IBM ...

DevOps Dozen Awards! Need your help.

By Sherri Hanna posted Mon November 22, 2021
It is always great and humbling to be recognized by your peers. Congratulations to the Z DevOps teams and clients who were named as finalists in several categories of the DevOps Dozen Awards ! Now ...

Breaking down silos between Dev and Ops: IBM Z DevOps solutions + Instana for z/OS

By Sherri Hanna posted Tue September 14, 2021
Blog written by Minaz Merali , Director for IBM Z DevOps for Hybrid Cloud For today's digital businesses who are leveraging a hybrid cloud strategy to address their needs for agility, and security ...

IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.2 released

By Coco Yin posted Fri July 09, 2021
IBM Host Configuration Assistant for Z Development 3.2 has been released. The following updates have been made in Version 3.2: You can now use the Galasa client with IBM Z Virtual Test Platform 2.0. ...

Testing hybrid Z applications with VTP 2.0

By Suman Gopinath posted Fri June 18, 2021
In the book “Spying on W hales,” Nick Pyenson writes about how the largest mammals on earth precariously balance the marine ecosystem from tiny organisms to large fishes - and interestingly, how the ...

Join our updated IBM Z DevOps Communities!

By Claire Nelson posted Wed June 16, 2021
Our Z team over the past year has worked hard to make IBM Communities a place where we can all collaborate together, learn from one another, share knowledge, and ask questions. Recently, we updated our ...