Hello, Welcome to the 2023! New objectives, expectations, challenges, wishes, hopes, excitements… Wishing all our clients and partners a year of prosperity, success, happiness. Thank you for trusting us. The 'motto' of this year is "Don't hesitate. Be relentless." Relentless in your pursuit of quality, your technical ability, learning new stuff, getting information. Be relentless and join our "IBM Z and LinuxONE MEA community" today and start discussion, explore your network, expend your skills – get more social active with your colleagues, clients, partners. To support you in relentless work, IBM Middle East and Africa zSystems & LinuxONE Technical team ...

Hello all! It has been only several months since I graduated, and started my Z journey. It is a fact, this is a whole new world even I graduated as "computer engineer". Not so long after I got to know Z, I was amazed with its capabilities and the role it played in the world; but also surprised to have never heard of it. This situation made me question mainframes to be very closed platforms, but Open Mainframe Project proved it wrong right away. I found Zowe to be a modern, therefore familiar gateway to the mainframe world. It opens doors to so many possibilities from applying DevOps practises on mainframes, to attract young developers (me!) to work ...

We explained what is Blockchain and why LinuxOne is the perfect infrastructure for Blockchain with my colleague @Mustafa Mert Askaroglu . Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to ask questions afterwards. Introduction Blockchain is one of the trending technologies in recent days. Especially with the introduction of the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, it became more and more popular over time. However, this popularity brought some irrelevant and misleading information also. Since even the people who don’t know anything about Blockchain and its capability are talking about it. This situation makes the technology seem overrated and it is damaging the reputation. ...

Today, 7 April marks a special day, the 56th birthday of the mainframe. It was on April 7, in the year of 1964 that the System/360 was announced. The first version of the server now known as IBM z15, was named IBM System/360, to indicate that this new system would handle every need of every user in the business and scientific worlds because it covered all 360 degrees of the compass. It was the first family of computers designed to cover a wide variety of applications. A general purpose computer, rather than a special purpose build device. A key design point was the clear distinction between architecture and implementation. The initial S/360 was quite ...