IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
In this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words.
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
IBM Automation Insights: Improving Observability and App Performance
Observability offers deep visibility into the internal state of complex systems in order to quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues to keep up with customer expectations and business requirements. Observability enables better application performance monitoring (APM). So, how can DevOps teams gain full observability into modern applications? On Feb. 23, experts from IBM and GitLab […]
How Shift-Left Testing Improves DevOps Efficiency and Software Quality
Shift-left testing is the key to deliver quality software at speed. Developers shift testing left to shorten long test cycles, prevent defects and mitigate risk earlier in the development cycle, rather than in later stages, to avoid rework and delays. In this interview, IBM Z DevOps Testing Lead Nathan Cassata talks about shift-left testing, the […]
Q&A: Embracing the Power of the Mainframe with Deloitte
Mainframes are still in high demand and continue to be critical to modern IT strategies because of their power, security and reliability. The 2020 Mainframe Market Pulse Survey, conducted by Forrester and commissioned by Deloitte Consulting, dives into the role of the mainframe as a strategic component to hybrid cloud environments. Forrester interviewed 261 business […]
Accelerating AIOps with the Mainframe
AIOps uses artificial intelligence by combining big data, analytics and machine learning to enhance IT operations. To successfully adopt and scale AIOps, it is critical for enterprises to add the mainframe to the equation. Adopting AIOps requires a holistic approach focused on business processes and workflows. The resiliency of a workflow depends on the health […]
Open Mainframe Virtual Summit: Adding Value to the Mainframe
While many predicted mainframes would eventually become obsolete, they continue to be prevalent in the corporate world. Mainframes are still in high demand, and the mainframe market is likely to grow over the next few years as business and IT leaders validate its enduring role in their hybrid strategies. Mainframes are rapidly evolving to meet […]
Application Modernization Video with IBM’s Rosalind Radcliffe
Application modernization is the process of updating existing legacy applications and modernizing their infrastructure, architecture and features, by using modern technology stacks. Monolithic applications are difficult to update and expensive to scale. In response to today’s business requirements of growth and innovation, enterprises must deliver new applications in an agile fashion while minimizing risk. Many […]
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with IBM
DevOps practices, processes and solutions help businesses accelerate their digital transformation by improving the speed and quality of software development. DevOps tools enable teams to do their job more efficiently by embracing automation, increasing agility and building speed, versatility and security into the framework. At the IBM DevOps Virtual Summit, attendees will learn how to […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: IBM to ‘Maniacally Focus’ on Hybrid Cloud, AI
IBM this week announced its intention to spin out a new company next year focused primarily on managed infrastructure as part of a plan to focus more on hybrid cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. IBM is combining the Red Hat assets it gained last year via a $34 billion acquisition with its investment […]
Wazi VTP Test Recording Streamlines Mainframe Testing
Mainframe developers have an easier time testing with the Wazi Virtual Testing Platform Working with test data is tricky. If you’re a developer working in a distributed environment, things are difficult enough. It seems as though you’re forever replenishing test data on a database in your local system or one that’s dedicated to you out […]
DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a fundamental tenet of modern computer programming. Just about every CS student is taught that duplicating code in an application is an accident waiting to happen. The hazard is that you might alter a piece of code in one place, only to leave another identical instance of that code unchanged. […]
IBM Z Open Editor Support for Language Server Protocol is a Game Changer
The integrated development environment (IDE) is an indispensable tool for software developers. Before it came along, coding was a laborious, detail ladened undertaking. We’ve become accustomed to the syntax checking and code completion features than even the most basic IDEs provide. These days we tend to forget how hard it was programming with nothing but […]
IBM Advances DevOps on the Mainframe
IBM has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the mainframe by adding automated unit testing capabilities for CICS COBOL programs using Db2 to IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) V14.2.1. The company is also making an instance of z/OS available within a Docker container that can be deployed on an x86 platform. Sanjay […]
TDD, Unit Testing and the Mainframe
Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. I wish I could say it’s otherwise. After all, making unit testing a standard practice in a company’s software development process is probably the […]
‘DevOps in the Multicloud World’ Virtual Summit Puts IBM Z in the Spotlight
Got mainframes on the mind? Wonder how you can unlock the value of the platform for mission critical workloads? Trying to figure out where IBM Z fits in an increasingly cloud native IT environment? Those questions and others will be discussed in an upcoming virtual summit that explores the role of IBM Z —within the […]
To Build a Healthy DevOps Culture, Look to Your Ecosystem
How do you do DevOps? Here’s a hint: Don’t fixate on finding the right tools or implementing the right processes. Instead, think about the broader ecosystem in which you operate, the culture that prevails in that ecosystem and which parts of the culture you can borrow to help enable your DevOps transformation. This is true […]
Automated Multiplatform Deployment for DevOps
In a simpler world, every CI/CD pipeline would need to support only one deployment platform. In the real world, multiplatform deployment (which means deploying an application to run on multiple OS platforms) is a must-have for many organizations. We live in an age of diverse operating systems and deploying for only one platform is often […]
Why and How to Collect KPIs for Z DevOps
It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure out how to do DevOps. That’s because DevOps is not about tools—there are lots of different tools that can help you succeed at DevOps. Nor is it about any really specific set of practices; although DevOps prioritizes things like automation and communication, it does not prescribe […]
The Competitive Advantages of Modern SCMs
Source code management (SCM) is not a new concept. It has been in existence since around 1980, when Revision Control System (RCS), one of the first major SCMs, was released. But that doesn’t mean SCM today is the same as it was decades ago. Modern SCM tools do much more than their predecessors. They handle […]
Shift-Left Testing, Continuous Integration and the Mainframe
“Mainframe” is one of the oldest terms in tech. “Shift-left” is much newer. You may not think, then, that mainframes and shift-left testing have much in common. But you’d be wrong. Shifting testing to the left can deliver tremendous benefits, even in the context of mainframe applications. Let us explain. What Is Shift-Left Testing? Shift-left […]
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