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The Women Pioneering Mainframes and AI
New AI in Action Podcast Episode: The Women Pioneering Mainframes and AI Mainframes are mission-critical to some of the world’s largest enterprises—and now, they’re playing a central role in AI transformation. In this inspiring episode of AI in Action, ..
Event: German IBM Z Workload Scheduler Guide on April 10th - 11th in Frankfurt
If you are a German speaking user of IBM Z Workload Scheduler, this is an event you don’t want to miss. Die IBM Workload Scheduler Arbeitsgruppe der GSE trifft sich zum jährlichen Erfahrungsaustausch rund um die IWS Produkte mit Schwerpunkt auf den IBM ..
Understanding Configuration Manager Output: REPORT
With the recently shipped PTF UJ96866 (APAR OA67573 ) IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager now prints a report that contains information about the products installed in your SMP/E environment. The report is printed to the job output DD name REPORT in ..
Making Sense of the Many I/O Count Fields in SMF
One common way to quantify and characterize workloads is to use measurements of I/O activity. This is illustrated by the fact that one metric often relied upon when calculating Internal Throughput Rates to measure the impact of processor upgrades is I/O..
IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 – Q1 2025 enhancements delivered (PH64397/UO02637)
As organizations continue to rely on IBM Db2 for z/OS to drive mission-critical workloads, performance monitoring and optimization tools like IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 play a crucial role in ensuring efficiency and reliability. With the latest enhancements i..
Avoiding Mainframe Mayhem: How IntelliMagic for z/OS Keeps Your System in Check
Imagine if your car could warn you days before the engine overheats or a tire goes flat. You wouldn’t be left stranded on the side of the road, right? That’s exactly the kind of proactive intelligence IntelliMagic brings to your mainframe environment. ..
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What’s next for mainframes and AI?
Mainframes are among the most powerful and reliable computing platforms in the world—built to handle massive workloads at unmatched speed and scale. But their role doesn’t stop there. In this new episode of AI Academy, Christian Jacobi explores how main..
IBM hat im Jahr 2022 die aktuelle Db2 für z/OS Version 13 vorgestellt. Natürlich beinhaltet die Db2 Version 13 wieder umfangreiche Neuerungen in den Bereichen Skalierbarkeit, Performance, Anwendungsverfügbarkeit – aber dieses Mal auch KI. Im Rahmen dies..
Securing software change management
There are typically separate development and production (virtual) machines (or partitions). With assembler, C\CPP, COBOL, etc. there is a prerequisite compile of the source code to object modules on the development machine under the control of a softwar..
Hello group - I am using LinuxONE at Marist with my students. We are trying to use ANSIBLE. Pinging/ssh from our Linux PCs works fine - but cannot ping from LinuxONE to our PCs. Have followed all the rules using UFW in both ends. On LinuxONE the messag..
Network Configuration Assistance and importing profile
I'm currently importing our TCP/IP profile into the Network Configuration Assistant (NCA). Our profile contains multiple import statements, which the vary command has successfully processed, resulting in several reusable configurations. Would it be best..
z/OS 3.1 functional dependencies Semeru 17 --> Semeru 21
We have just moved our z/OS 3.1 functional dependency from Semeru 17 to Semeru 21. I've written a post about it below, which includes several links and my handy dandy color graphic showing all the past z/OS 3.1 changes. I dare say you are likely getti..
Hi, The re-block program is generating the following message: Here's the first 3 bytes of the AFP input record = 5A4040 The 1st byte is the AFP record identifier = 5A The 2nd and 3rd bytes is the length of the data that follows the AFP record ide..
Can Python be byte code only executable?
A standard two steps procedure to deployment of executables secures the production machines by preventing execution of human readable text source code on the production machines. The first step is to write the source code. The second step is to convert ..
For the New, and not so New, to z/OS
Y'all might like this new dinoframe.io article on using OMVS (shell) commands while in TSO or ISPF https://dinoframe.io/article/omvs-shell-commands-from-tso-or-ispf
Multiple DataSources in Liberty
We are currently using multiple dataSources with a JDBC-driver type4 in Liberty with CICS 5.6 and it works well. We now wanted to try the JDBC-driver type2 to compare the performance but we get an error message com.ibm.db2.jcc.t2zos.T2zosConnection.init..
