In this podcast, we‘ll take a look at the people, technology, and culture behind one of the world‘s most powerful and important computing platforms, the Mainframe. Expect interviews, discussions, and interesting tidbits along the way, with your hosts, Frank and Jeff.
Episodes
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017
39 min
Glenn Anderson is just one of the people in charge of making sure education is readily available to mainframe users around the world.
Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017
38 min
Rosalind Radcliffe has been the DevOps Queen for quite a while now, and has some tremendous insight into just how mainframe shops can see immediate and long-term advantages from shifting to modern tooling.
Nov 6, 2017
Nov 6, 2017
28 min
To say that storage on mainframe is a big deal would be a tremendous understatement, and it’s not enough to just be able to connect to hundreds of terabytes of available storage… it all has to be managed as well. In this episode.
Oct 30, 2017
Oct 30, 2017
37 min
The IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility is a purpose-built operating system that the world depends on day-in and day-out. In this episode, Kara Todd tells us all about it, and more!
Oct 23, 2017
Oct 23, 2017
36 min
Being a tester means knowing a bug's favorite hiding places. If you're a defect, you don't want to play hide and seek with Debbie Furman, a z/OS Function Tester Extraordinaire.
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017
31 min
Lili Tang may only have two years working in Z, but she’s already ripping through everything the platform has to offer. This episode is all about how data science works on mainframes.
Oct 9, 2017
Oct 9, 2017
39 min
From science project to enterprise hypervisor, z/VM has a multitude of uses, and a very interesting history. In this episode, Romney White walks us through why z/VM is so interesting.
Oct 2, 2017
Oct 2, 2017
38 min
Brian Prasky knows what’s going on inside a CPU. He’s so smart he even knows what’s GOING to happen inside a CPU.
Sep 25, 2017
Sep 25, 2017
39 min
Peter Enrico is President of Enterprise Performance Strategies Inc, and has worked exhaustively on the mainframe platform to ensure that customers the the most from their systems.
Sep 18, 2017
Sep 18, 2017
35 min
Neil Shah knows a thing or two about setting up and running z/OS systems. In this episode, he talks about how a system's Parmlib is where all the magic happens.