After decades of working with IBM Db2 for z/OS, I’m continually surprised that some performance myths simply refuse to go away. Despite new releases, new features, and new hardware generations, the same half-truths and…
ContinueIn the world of mainframes right now, the conversation has shifted from "How do we get off the mainframe?" to "How do we make the mainframe the heart of our AI and Hybrid Cloud strategy?"
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ContinueDb2 for z/OS has proven successful for decades not because of any single feature, but because it consistently delivers on the things that matter most for mission-critical enterprise computing. The biggest reasons fall into a few…
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Across industries, I’m hearing a remarkably consistent message: organizations are accelerating innovation, investing heavily in AI, and navigating an increasingly interconnected digital landscape. Ambition is clear. So is the pressure. The challenge isn’t a lack of tools or talent. It’s that the complexity of modern data, applications, and AI pipelines is growing faster than the operational frameworks needed to run them reliably. Teams struggle…
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A recent Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by BMC, showed that organizations using BMC AMI DevX achieved notable development speed and quality improvements, like reducing mainframe application downtime by 99% while enabling up to 15x more annual codebase changes. Forrester interviewed six organizations using BMC AMI DevX— including mainframe DevOps leaders in…
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A recent Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by BMC, shows how organizations using BMC AMI DevX turned a talent pipeline challenge into a strategic advantage by improving the mainframe developer experience. For instance, the study found that new developers ramped up 50% faster, and overall productivity improved by 33%—equivalent to adding 25…
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For years, discussions about enterprise IT innovation have focused heavily on distributed platforms, cloud-native architectures, and newer development paradigms. In that conversation, the mainframe has often been misunderstood or overlooked—not because it stopped evolving, but because its role as a highly optimized, mission-critical platform has largely remained behind the scenes. In reality, mainframes have continued…
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