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IBM Previews Generative AI Tool for Converting COBOL to Java

IBM this week announced it will preview a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for converting COBOL code running on mainframes into Java. The preview will be available next month during IBM’s TechXchange learning event, IB…

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Feb05

Blogs

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, co…

3 min

Feb04

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 enterpr…

3 min

Jun01

Blogs

BMC Software Closes Compuware Deal, Sets Course

BMC Software today announced it has formally completed its acquisition of Compuware as part of an expanded effort to modernize mainframe environments. Bill Miller, president of ZSo…

3 min

Mar20

Blogs

EP 4: DevOps and the Mainframe

In this fourth episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel a…

3 min

Dec11

Blogs

Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops

A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their…

3 min

Oct09

Blogs

OpenLegacy Partners With Compuware to Advance DevOps on Mainframes

OpenLegacy has allied with Compuware to make it easier to build and debug microservices-based applications employing REST application programming interfaces (APIs) to access data r…

3 min

Sep19

Blogs

‘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 nativ…

3 min

Aug29

DevOps at IBM

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.…

3 min

Aug23

Blogs

Achieving Open and Integrated Development with IBM Z

“DevOps” and “mainframe” are not words you often hear in the same sentence. Yet, the reality is that even in our current age of DevOps, mainframes remain the mainstays of many comp…

3 min

Aug22

DevOps at IBM

Going Cloud-Native with IBM Z as a Hybrid Cloud Platform

When people use the phrase “they don’t make ‘em like that anymore,” 100-year-old bridges, Jon Snow’s sword and American muscle cars often come to mind. If the topic of discussion h…

3 min

May01

Blogs

Mainframes: The Cloud Before the Cloud

Here’s something to think about: Despite the fact that IBM stopped manufacturing personal computers in 2005, deciding instead to focus on higher margin business services, the compa…

3 min

Mar01

Blogs

How Mainframes Live On

TL/DR: Highly controlled change is sometimes the best answer. For much of my career, I’ve worked in mainframe shops. I have never worked on a mainframe team, but I have worked clos…

3 min

Feb19

Blogs

IBM Adds Automated Testing Tool for Mainframe to DevOps Portfolio

IBM has added an automated testing tool to the portfolio of DevOps tools it has developed for mainframes. Sanjay Chandru, director of Z DevOps for IBM, said IBM Z Open Unit Test ad…

3 min

Nov19

Blogs

DevOps Chat: Mainframe Attitudes with LzLabs’ Dale Vecchio

Dale Vecchio has spent many years in the mainframe business, including 18 or so years with Gartner covering the mainframe beat. Today, he works as chief marketing officer at LzLabs…

3 min

Oct04

Blogs

Mainframes and DevOps: The Odd Couple of Digital Transformation

I am still surprised when I go to industry conferences and I hear people talking about the imminent demise of the mainframe. More common and equally wrong is how mainframes don’t w…

3 min

Sep05

Blogs

Open Mainframe Project Launches Zowe to Advance DevOps

The Open Mainframe Project has launched Zowe, an effort to make mainframes running z/OS both more accessible and programmable using REST application programming interfaces (APIs).…

3 min

Aug09

Blogs

Implementing DevSecOps in the Mainframe-Driven Enterprise

DevSecOps is emerging as an important trend in corporate IT. It makes sense. With each passing day more applications serve a larger user base. Whereas in the past the typical busin…

3 min

Jun29

Blogs

Compuware Extends DevOps Push for Mainframes

Compuware has advanced its campaign to erase the DevOps divide between mainframes and distributed systems via an update to Topaz for Enterprise Data that makes it easier to generat…

3 min

Apr16

Blogs

A Unified Route to Bring Mainframes to DevOps Speed

Most businesses have mainframes where their key applications and data reside. In today’s digital environment, customer-facing mobile and web systems retrieve critical data from bac…

3 min

Apr13

Blogs

IBM Think 2018: DevOps Integrated Everywhere

With the onset of conference season I have been running a bit ragged. But something I noticed at the recent IBM Think 2018 Conference really needs to be called to attention: DevOps…

3 min

Jan16

Blogs

IBM Z: An Architecture That Scales for Modern Computing

The architectures I like best are the ones that are built to scale. I can’t tell you how many time I’ve run across applications that have hit the wall when the request count goes u…

3 min

May03

Blogs

DevOps is a Lifeline to Connected Mainframe ROI

A new IDC white paper sponsored by IBM and CA Technologies reveals the adoption of DevOps is a hallmark of those organizations that are actively modernizing and integrating legacy…

3 min

Dec15

Blogs

Compuware Survey Connects Mainframes, DevOps

Mainframes are still necessary; integrating them with modern hardware and software is tricky; and DevOps is the answer. Those are the takeaways from a survey out this week that was…

3 min