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IBM Data Studio 4.1.4 now available for Aqua 3.2!

By Gerald Mitchell posted 2 hours ago
In the United States, we just had our Thanksgiving Day, and in my family it is tradition to make sure that we play games and do puzzles together as part of our celebration. Sometimes the larger and complex jigsaws take a while, but we are thankful to be able to interact together and with resolve and teamwork we eventually solve the puzzle. Today the IBM family is thankful to be able to highlight the announcement of another puzzle piece to further complete Aqua 3.2 ... IBM Data Studio 4.1.4 ! IBM Data Studio provides developers with IBM Db2 for z/OS database interaction to create and modify programs via an integrated, modular environment. ...

My Tech Journey : Mission Possible

By Saurabh Verma posted 3 hours ago
Technology is everywhere, we can think of a place where it is available. It also allows us to communicate better with the world, we can now communicate our opinions, our views freely, technology has done so much good that its negative effects are hard to remember; it has continuously improved itself and still has a lot of room for improvement. Without technology, how would we be able to meet our basic needs so easily? Even before the invention of technology, man was able to meet his needs. However, it was difficult and so primitive back then. Look at today’s food – fresh, preserved or processed, food of any type is available at your doorstep just anytime. ...

intro video

By V Roshan Kumar Patro posted 11 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0c8M_h747I

IBM Z with z/OS Resilience Best Practices Guide

By Robert Abrams posted yesterday
Cyber-Resilience characteristics delivered by IBM Z are critical to large business enterprises, ensuring that their IT enterprise maintain the highest levels of continuous availability for critical business workloads. The IBM Z server, built on a resilient foundation that includes hardware, software, firmware, middleware, and cyber-resilience, provides the level of resiliency required for systems of record, not only for core CICS* and IMS* workloads, but also for newer technologies like machine learning and analytics applications, as well as a web infrastructure that supports high transaction rates for 24-7-365 operations. This document offers best practices ...

Business Automation auf der Z Plattform - z.B. mit IBM FileNet Content Manager

By Dorothee Stork posted yesterday
Business Automation auf der Z Plattform - z.B. mit IBM FileNet Content Manager Ein Teil des großen Bereichs Automation ist das Thema Business Automation, das sich bei IBM neben der Automatisierung und Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen und -aufgaben mit weitere Themengebieten befasst : Dokumentenverarbeitung und langfristige Aufbewahrung Flexibilisierung und Unterstützung bei Entscheidungen Automatisierung einzelner Arbeitsschritte Dieser umfangreiche Funktionskatalog unterstützt auf vielfältige Art bei der Innovation und Optimierung von Betriebsabläufe n . So kann z.B. ein Kundenantrag, der bisher 3 Tage benötigt hat, ...

What's new in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17

By Yuan Jie Song posted yesterday
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17 is now available! Except for numerous additional improvements and bug fixes, this release also has some key new features. Open-source community features IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17 brings significant features from the open-source community: Lazy module loading is supported to avoid processing irrelevant dependencies. New functions for safer pointer arithmetic are introduced. For other language enhancements, see the Go 1.17 community announcement blog . Access to VSAM data sets Direct access to the VSAM data set type without cgo is supported. The usage and demonstrations are available at Accessing VSAM ...

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17 is now available!

By James Tang posted yesterday
Modernization is about delivering the best value to your clients, more quickly. This includes reducing the cost of maintaining your existing applications by updating or extending them. With the latest version of IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go, IBM brings the benefits of the popular open-source Go language to accelerate application modernization on z/OS. Go's lightweight characteristics is designed for application modernization and development of cloud-native applications in addition to optimizing performance. IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17 brings several significant features from the open-source community. Here are some highlights: Pruned module graphs ...

#050【z/OS V2R5変更点】 z/OS稼働LPARでサポートされるプロセッサー・ストレージ（最大「16TB」に増加）

By Shigeki Kimura posted yesterday
「IBM z13」サーバー以降、z/OS V2R2、V2R3、V2R4稼働LPARの「オンライン実記憶域」サイズ（プロセッサー・ストレージ）が、最大「4TB」まで拡張され、z/OSにてサポートされる最大値まで利用可能となりました。 ※「zEC12」サーバーまでは、最大「1TB」に制限 【z/OS V2R5の変更点】　※APAR OA61516 （z/OS V2R5標準機能） ■z/OS V2R5では、稼働LPARの「オンライン実記憶域」サイズ最大値が、従来の「4TB」から「16TB」に引き上げられ、稼働サーバーの最大プロセッサー・ストレージ容量を超えない範囲で利用可能となりました。 ■z/OS V2R5では、「オンライン実記憶域」サイズが「4TB」を超える場合、「4TB」を超える部分は「2GBラージ・フレーム」専用になります。 ※PARMLIB(IEASYSxx) 「LFAREA」パラメータで指定された「2GBラージ・フレーム」に上乗せ 例えば、「オンライン実記憶域」サイズが「8TB」、かつ「LFAREA=(1M=1024,2G=512)」パラメータ指定の場合 「2GBラージ・フレーム」 ・・・ 1TB分 （2GB x 512） + 4TB分 （8TB - 4TB） = 5TB分 IAR059I STORAGE ABOVE 4T RESULTED IN 2048 2G FRAMES FOR A TOTAL OF 2560 2G FRAMES ...

DevOps Dozen agrees, IDzEE nominated for Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

By William Alexander posted 2 days ago
"We estimate that IBM Developer for z/OS has increased our developers' efficiency by up to 25%. We've dramatically accelerated our development and testing phases and we encounter significantly fewer bugs." A quote by Umut Arslan at Garanti BBVA Technology in the recently published case study on the value of IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition (IDzEE). Their transformation, exemplifies customer innovation to meet aggressive business demands. IDzEE continues to be the leading Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in the market for z/OS developers. It provides a modern, robust tool set including unit testing, code coverage analysis, interactive debugging, ...

Business events ZBEVF command enhancements (APAR PJ45677)

By Chris Filachek posted 2 days ago
Business events ZBEVF command enhancements improve the usability of the usage and error displays and provide several new ways to search for and display business events and dispatch adapters. Previously, the ZBEVF usage and error displays listed information for all business events and dispatch adapters across all ECB activation levels. In most cases, however, you need the usage or error counts only for deployed items at the current activation level. The display contained more information than necessary because it included undeployed items or listed items multiple times if the same item was included in multiple loadsets. In addition, you could use the ZBEVF ...

New video: Introduction to IBM Z OMEGAMON for JVM, V5.5.0

By Nigel Williams posted 2 days ago
See how IBM® Z® OMEGAMON® for JVM version 5.5.0 helps your enterprise get the most out of Java™ applications on z/OS®. In this new video, we show you how OMEGAMON for JVM: Discovers Java workloads running on your system Identifies potential bottlenecks in performance Protects against out-of-memory conditions Provides comprehensive analysis of your z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition APIs Links IBM Z OMEGAMON for JVM product page: https://www.ibm.com/products/z-omegamon-for-jvm IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS product page: https://www.ibm.com/products/omegamon-for-cics-on-zos Tags #OMEGAMON #Zosconnect #monitoring #observability ...

THE MAINFRAME MANDATE – why cloudZ beats the cloud (Folge 9)

By Annalisa Cesa posted 2 days ago
Eine weitere Folge ( Folge 9 ) der Videocast-Reihe "THE MAINFRAME MANDATE – why cloudZ beats the cloud" ist auf LinkedIn Online! In dieser Folge sprechen Anke Wagner und Andreas Volz , die gemeinsam die Einheit Mainframe in the NEW bei Accenture DACH leiten, mit Mark Aichholz , Technical Sales Leader for z-Stack Software bei IBM DACH über das Thema Lift & Shift with IBM. Weiterführende Informationen zum Thema: Lift & Shift – An essential guide: https://lnkd.in/dEHksZbx zD&T: https://lnkd.in/dtm-ufES Jede Woche gibt es weitere Folgen der Serie auf LinkedIn. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

Tech 4 Good!

By Rachel Head posted 3 days ago
We have two questions: What companies or initiatives do you know of, that is using Technology for Good today? How can you make an impact towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals utilizing technology? Share your answers and discussions by commenting below!

Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark now available in IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.03 on IBM Z

By CHRISTOPHER BUCHHOLZ posted 4 days ago
by Barbara Sannerud and Jonathan Sloan Spark is one of the most widely-used engines for scalable computing, with 80% of the Fortune 500 using Apache Spark™1. With thousands of contributors to the open source project, and with its ability to support many data sources and languages, Spark is an appealing technology for banks and financial institutions. With IBM Z’s advantages for critical industries with its hyper scale performance, availability, and security, it is a natural step for Spark to be supported on IBM Z and LinuxONE. The Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark was introduced on November 30th 2021 as a recent enhancement to IBM Cloud Pak for Data ...

z/TPFDF recoup optimized chain chasing (APARs PH30068 and PJ46413)

By Chris Filachek posted 4 days ago
z/TPFDF recoup optimized chain chasing reduces the amount of DASD I/O resources and the time required by recoup to chain chase z/TPFDF indexed databases that contain a large number of detail subfiles with only a single pool record. Recoup is a maintenance utility that is used to find all in-use pool records and return any lost pools to the z/TPF system. Standard z/TPFDF recoup chain chasing finds in-use pool records by reading all z/TPFDF subfiles and the pool records used by those subfiles. If your z/TPFDF database contains tens of millions of pool records or less, recoup might be able to chain chase the database in less than an hour. However, as your ...

Additional trace information (PJ46309)

By Michael Shershin posted 4 days ago
APAR PJ46309 includes several enhancements that enrich the data in ECB trace. This enriched data provides a foundation to improve the understanding of the flow and processing that is done by an application running on the z/TPF system. All of the enriched data is available in z/TPF dumps as well as in trace log output. Copy-on-write trace A copy-on-write event happens when a z/TPF program updates a static variable. The static variable is in the program rather than on the ECB stack. Because z/TPF programs must be reentrant and because the static variable is in the program, a copy of the 4 KB page where the static variable resides is made when ...

Trace log enhancements (PJ46309)

By Michael Shershin posted 4 days ago
APAR PJ46309 includes various enhancements to trace log support. These enhancements collect additional data and improve the consistency of the data that is collected. In addition, changes to trace log controls are included. The use of trace logging with PJ46309 installed can help you improve your understanding of the flow and resource usage within an application. Infrastructure To support enhancements that are provided in PJ46309, additional information needs to be specified when a trace log session is started. To provide this added information, the TLOGC assembler macro was updated to support the ability to pass data in a parameter block. ...

z/OS Application Modernization with IBM Metal C

By John Parke posted 4 days ago
z/OS Application Modernization with IBM Metal C The IBM z/OS XL C/C++ ® compiler has an option referred to as METAL C. This option generates IBM high level assembler (HLASM) code instead of an object module. The advantage of using this option is that the generated code does not depend on Language Environment ® support at runtime; although it may require the Metal C runtime library (in LPA). METAL C allows the use of embedded system service calls: STORAGE OBTAIN, OBTAIN macro, CATLOG/CAMLST, etc. Routines can be created using METAL C, and then called from an assembler or high-level language program. Metal C uses standard MVS linkage conventions. IBM suggests ...

New fabric zoning feature helps to automate the zoning management

By Gerald Hosch posted 4 days ago
Abstract: Fabric zoning is a new feature supported on IBM® z/VM® and Red Hat® KVM since IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.1.4.1., helping to automate the zoning management. The blog describes how to register fabrics and connect them to the storage provider in Cloud Infrastructure Center. Written by Li Ping Hao . Note: The IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center supports both z/VM and Red Hat KVM as hypervisors. This blog uses the z/VM hypervisor as an example, the workflow is similar for the KVM hypervisor. Terminology Storage Provider Storage Provider is the term used in Cloud Infrastructure Center for any system that provides storage ...

Comm Server online sessions - z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) Goes Live!

By Flora Gui posted 4 days ago
For the past few years, many z/OS users have discovered the power of z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) in gaining a comprehensive view of z/OS TCP and EE cryptographic protection, but the story does not end here. With z/OS V2R5, you will be able to configure zERT rules to take actions in real time based on the observed cryptographic attributes of inbound and outbound z/OS TCP connections! Check out this online session recording and discover z/OS V2R5 highlights for zERT! To learn more about zERT, visit Things you should know about zERT (https://ibm.biz/thingsaboutzert).

Mainframe – What the Heck? Der Enterprise Transformation Podcast

By Annalisa Cesa posted 4 days ago
Kennen Sie schon unseren " Mainframe - What the Heck?" - Podcast? Nein? Na, dann ist es höchste Zeit, dass Sie mal bei uns in der Library vorbeischauen oder auch direkt hier auf der PKS Seite, wo alle Folgen der Reihe zu finden sind! Worum geht es in diesen Folgen überhaupt? In diesem Podcast geben Heidi Schmidt (PKS Software GmbH) und Tobias Leicher (IBM Deutschland GmbH) Antworten auf Hypes, Mythen und aktuelle Trends unserer Z Plattform. Es gibt Anwender-Talks aus dem realen Projektalltag bei der Mainframe-Transformation ebenso wie Gespräche mit Experten. Der Podcast klärt auf und schafft Entscheidungsgrundlagen. Viel Spaß beim Reinhören! :)

#049【ICKDSF変更点】 「BUILDIX OSVTOC NOPURGE」コマンド実行後の「VTOCインディケータ」

By Shigeki Kimura posted 4 days ago
従来、VTOC F4-DSCB内の「VTOCインディケータ」（DS4VTOCI）バイトには、「INDEX VTOC」が「DISABLE」になったことを示す「DS4DVTOC」（index was disabled）と呼ばれるビットが定義されています。 【機能変更点】 ※ICKDSF R17 APAR PH41155 （PTF UI77907： 2021/11） ■ICKDSF 「BUILDIX OSVTOC」コマンド実行時に「 NOPURGE 」パラメータ（省略時解釈）が有効な場合に限り、前述の「DS4DVTOC」ビットが「ON」設定されるように変わりました。 ※「BUILDIX OSVTOC PURGE」コマンドにて「VTOC INDEX」を削除した場合、「DS4DVTOC」ビットは「OFF」設定のまま変わらず（従来同様） ■ICKDSF 「BUILDIX IXVTOC」コマンドを実行して「OS VTOC」から「INDEX VTOC」への再変換を行うと、「DS4DVTOC」ビットは「OFF」設定されます。（従来同様） 【考慮事項①】 ※IEHLIST/LISTVTOCオペレーション ■ICKDSF 「BUILDIX OSVTOC NOPURGE」コマンドを実行して「INDEX VTOC」から「OS VTOC」へのフォーマット変換を行った場合、上記変更に伴い「DS4DVTOC」ビットが「ON」設定されるため、 VTOC F4-DSCB内の「VTOCインディケータ」（DS4VTOCI）バイト、および「IEHLIST/LISTVTOC」コマンド実行結果に含まれる「VI」（VTOCインディケータ）が、従来とは異なる値を示します ...

Analytics dreams really do come true with the new IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider

By Dave Willoughby posted 5 days ago
Analytics dreams really do come true with the new IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider With the holidays approaching, maybe its true, that dreams can come true! As a mainframe developer, application administrator, and data scientist, my dream has been for easy access to mainframe performance metrics for advanced use cases such as special monitoring based on machine learning. With the availability of the IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider (IZODP), my dream is coming true! I’m also a believer in the rule of three, and in this case, the dream has three parts: built-in, modern mainframe metric streaming, easy set up and management of a getting-started ...

New Enhancements Delivered for z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and Navigator

By Daniel Wiegand posted 5 days ago
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog as part of the AIOps series to introduce a solution for analyzing anomalous behavior to determine root cause of operational issues. That blog provided an overview of the IBM z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and IBM z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator. Since that time, IBM has delivered some exciting new changes and enhancements to accelerate client adoption of the solution. As detailed in the blog, the Navigator is an extremely powerful tool that provides a deep dive view into your entire workload stack to understand the inter-dependencies of all workload activities based on Correlator data. This solution ...

#048【z/OS V2R5変更点】 ANTMAINアドレス空間の開始時に出力される新規メッセージ

By Shigeki Kimura posted 5 days ago
z/OS V1R10で新規提供された「VCC （Virtual-Concurrent-Copy）」の「FlashCopy」サポートでは、DFSMSdssのCOPY、DUMP処理を「CONCURRENT」キーワード指定で行う際、「VCC」用の中間データセット（WSDS： Working-Space Data Set）への「FlashCopy」が行われた後、「WSDS」からターゲットへのコピー処理が実施されます。 従来、「VCC」では、ANTMAINアドレス空間が利用するパラメータ設定情報として、論理PARMLIB連結中の「ANTMIN00」メンバーを常に利用するため、PARMLIB共用の環境で特定システムのパラメータ設定を変更したい場合は、論理PARMLIBの上位連結にて「ANTMIN00」メンバーを丸ごと置換する必要があります。 ※「00」以外のメンバー・サフィックス（ANTMINxx）は利用不可 【z/OS V2R5の変更点】 ■z/OS V2R5では「VCC」における「代替PARMLIBサポート」が提供され、PARMLIB共用の環境で、システム毎にパラメータ設定を一部変更（オーバーライド）できるようになりました。 ※①で指定された「HLQ」パラメータに基づき、②の「HLQ.ANTMAIN.PARMLIB」データセットが「代替PARMLIB」となり、該当システムの「SYSNAME」値に一致するメンバー名を参照 ※「SYSNAME=SYSTEM1」の場合、該当システムでの「HLQ」指定は「TSTSPLEX」となり、WSDSデータセットのプレフィックスとして「TSTSPLEX.ANTMAIN」を使用 ...

November 2021 documentation refresh for Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.3

By Dan Zhang posted 5 days ago
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.3 documentation is refreshed today to include the following enhancements: Enhancements in COBOL 6.3 with PTFs installed: (For a complete list of Enterprise COBOL PTFs, check https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/604539 ) : PH40562: A new signature information byte is added for the DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA clause so that the compiler can indicate to the debugger when COBOL programs have the DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA clause. ( Signature information bytes ) PH42280: The following messages are updated to report additional information and return codes: IGYSI5305-U ...

Mission Possible: Technology shaping my life

By Augusto Ferrari Negromonte posted 6 days ago
Hi, my name is Augusto Ferrari Negromonte, I'm from Brasil and I'm 29 years old. Technology has always been present in my life, but I only started studying Systems Analysis and Development when I was 28 years old. A lot changed in my life after I started college, I stopped selling crafts on the street and started to focus on my studies. Now I'll create a web commerce to sell my stuff. In the fourth semester of college I got an internship, which I have been doing for almost 2 months. I love IBM enterprise computing because of the many possibilities that can be done with an IBM Z. You can use different programming languages, host websites, perform Data Science ...

#047【z/OS V2R5変更点】 「ハードコピー・ログ」へのIEF196Iメッセージ出力

By Shigeki Kimura posted 6 days ago
従来、システム・アドレス空間、あるいは「SUB=MSTR」で開始されたジョブの場合、JOBLOGが存在しないため、通常（SUB=JES2）なら、JOBLOGの「JESJCL DD」、「JESYSMSG DD」で見られる一連のメッセージが、先頭にIEF196Iを付加した格好で「Hardcopy LOG」（SYSLOG/OPERLOG）へ出力されます。 【「ROUTCDE=(11)」指定で発行されたWTOメッセージ】 ■許可プログラム（省略時解釈の「LINKAGE= SVC 」)、あるいは非許可プログラムから、「ROUTCDE=(11)」指定のWTOメッセージを発行した場合、それらのメッセージは「Hardcopy LOG」のみならず、JOBLOGの「JESYSMSG DD」に対しても出力されます。 ■それらのプログラムが「SUB=MSTR」指定のジョブで稼働する場合、JOBLOG不在のため、発行されたWTOメッセージは、先頭にIEF196Iを付加した格好で「Hardcopy LOG」へ出力されます。 ※「SUB=MSTR」指定のジョブにて「ROUTCDE=(11)」を指定したWTOメッセージが「SVC」扱い（省略時値）で発行された場合、「Hardcopy LOG」には、オリジナル・メッセージと、先頭にIEF196Iが付加されたメッセージ（「JESYSMSG DD」への出力分）が重複出力 ■z/OS V2R4の事例：　※メッセージ IEF695Iは、「ROUTCDE=(11)」で発行（00200000） ...

Basic Principles of Design: A Collaboration of Adobe and IBM (Course and Badge)

By maryam matin posted 8 days ago
It's been amazing learning together design and technology as they are interlinked. I am always passionate about design and making myself creative to apply the skills on designing products. It helps us to discover and show as the balance between design and tech. Combining Design and Technology: the Future of Strategic Thinking “There is an even deeper relationship between strategy and design, which produces more memorable, more significant results. Creative design isn’t an appendage of the brands’ strategies. Essentially, design is strategy and strategy is design.” John Maeda Changing the way of thinking: design as an integral part of the innovation ...

Mission Impossible: Personal Brand Hiba

By Hiba Ahmedi posted 8 days ago
I am a final year computer science/cybersecurity student with a 2:1 achieved in my first year, technology has greatly shaped my life, passions, and interests. Able to work effectively and efficiently as an individual or as a member of a team in a professional environment. Seeking the next rewarding and challenging opportunity in a successful focused team . It was almost 3 years ago that I decided to pursue a degree in Cyber security, I had been interested in programming for some time now and dabbled in the theory of Ethical hacking for a while as well. furthermore, my career interest has been and will continue to be impacted the most by technology.