IBM Deepens DevOps Insights on Mainframes
IBM today extended its effort to enable IT organizations that have mainframes to embrace DevOps best practices by updating the analytics tools it provides. Tom McPherson, vice president for IBM Z Software, said a version 6.0 update to the suite of IBM application discovery and delivery intelligence (ADDI) for IBM Z tools surfaces more granular […]
Join the Open Source Languages for z/OS User Forum
Why join the Rocket Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS forum? It’s a place where you can ask questions about our open source languages and tools and get answers from other mainframe professionals like yourself, as well as members of the Rocket team. As a Forum member, you can engage with your peers, learn […]
Download Rocket Open Source Languages for z/OS Today!
Empower your developers to use their preferred open source languages. We offer many open source languages and tools—including Git, R and Python—that allow any developer to harness the power of the mainframe without spending months learning new skills. Git Git is a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work […]
Modernize Without Disruption
How to modernize without disruption. Through recessions, geopolitical shifts, pandemics and threats to global security, IBM® Z® has proven to be the most reliable, high-performing and secure platform in the industry. It’s time to expose the flexibility, agility and efficiency to provide an open and inclusive infrastructure that supports shifting business models and delivers strategic […]
Using IBM ADDI and VTP to Enhance Observability in Mainframe Development
Observability has always been a key factor in software development – not so much on the mainframe. However, the rise of the internet as the go-to platform for modern commerce has caused an explosion of transactional activities. There’s much more complexity behind the scenes than the request/response activity that used to be the usual interaction […]
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 […]
Open Source and the Mainframe with Rocket Software
Open source enables developers to quickly create and deploy containers and business services across public and private infrastructures. Open source tools allow DevOps teams to harness the power of the mainframe. In this TechStrong TV interview, Tim Willging, chief architect and strategist, and Peter Fandel, mainframe open source evangelist at Rocket Software, join Mitch Ashley […]
The Use of Open Source in Mainframe Environments
Open source is a critical element of IT computing. As companies modernize the mainframe and start to add components to mainframe applications that are off the mainframe, they should to be able to build, test and deploy the components of that application that go across the mainframe and different computing platforms in the same manner. […]
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
BMC Expands Scope of Mainframe Management Portfolio
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […]
Bringing Agility to Mainframes in COVID-19 and Beyond
Of the many ways this pandemic has shifted resources online, financial transactions are among the most critical. With the use of cash and checks grinding to a halt, transactions generated with our devices are increasing, and most of them are being completed on a mainframe. It’s not hyperbole to state that mainframes—the systems of record […]
Mainframe and DevOps in Traditional Enterprise, With ASG Technologies
The assumption that large, established enterprises—from insurance companies to government agencies—can’t adopt Agile processes or DevOps is based on the falsehood that legacy technology stacks won’t allow for it; that existing traditional mainframe applications or legacy applications that large enterprises are built on are incapable of adapting to these approaches. Accelerated Strategies Group recently released […]
Why It’s Time to Migrate Away From COBOL
Every few years an alarm goes up about the shortage of COBOL programmers, and then it dies down. While it’s hard to tell whether this cycle occurs because programmers are found or because other solutions are identified, the latest resurgence of interest is at least in part due to the pandemic and state governments’ use […]
Z is for Zowe – the Open Path to Mainframe DevOps
The energy and excitement in the IBM Z mainframe community during the two years since the announcement of Zowe have not been seen in a generation. By enabling mainframers to work like technologists who work on the cloud, mobile and distributed platforms, Zowe unlocks the power of DevOps for mainframers, ensuring the vitality of the […]
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 […]
Open Mainframe Project Pushes Zowe Platform Into LTS
The Open Mainframe Project (OMP) announced this week that a long-term support (LTS) edition of Zowe, the open source integration platform for mainframes running z/OS, is now generally available. Announced at the virtual Open Source Summit, this edition of the framework for integrating administration, management and development tools based on web technologies will not be […]
Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left
Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]
Compuware Extends Alliance With CloudBees
Compuware has become a premier member of the CloudBees Technical Alliance Partner Program (TAPP), as part of an effort to accelerate the adoption of best DevOps practices in mainframe environments. Sam Knutson, vice president of product management for Compuware, said his company has already developed six plugins for the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery […]
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 […]
Why Legacy Application Development is a Challenge
Enterprises seeking to modernize their legacy mainframe applications often cite the key reason as not being able to evolve quickly enough to support the changing needs of the business. This is also a driving force behind the increasing trend toward moving these legacy applications onto other platforms, either by attempting to rewrite or re-platform them. […]
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 […]