Episodes
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Chris Colonna - Whispering to DASD with FICON Security
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Behind the scenes, but bathed in light, FICON connects powerful mainframe systems to massive storage devices. Encoded within that light lives some of the world's most important data which needs to get to their destination quickly. How do you get security without sacrificing speed? Give a listen to this week's episode with Chris Colonna: FICON Channel Firmware Execution Lead
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Emily Hugenbruch - a z/VM Murder Mystery
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
It was a dark quiet night, just like this one, when a series of Linux guests running under z/VM suddenly gave up the ghost. Those in charge knew it was time to bring in the big guns. With Chief Sleuth Emily Hugenbruch hot on the case, and a deep bench of talent providing backup, this was one defect that got de-commissioned.
Big thanks to Jim Ground for providing the atmospheric background music. Book him for all your children's parties.
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Jessielaine Punongbayan - COBOL and Zowe
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
You never know what's going to bring COBOL to the forefront of people's thoughts, but here we are. Jessielaine Punongbayan,Senior Mainframe R&D Engineer at Broadcom Inc., has made a name for herself over the years as a Systems Programmer and COBOL coder, but has recently been making waves with a series of posts on Medium.com highlighting ways that mainframe usage can be modernized, reinvented, and quite frankly, made more appealing to programmers who haven't grown up around Z systems. In this talk, we find out what drew Jessielaine to mainframe, what's on the agenda for Zowe, how she envisions the future of the technology, and what people can do to get started right now.
Medium.com posts - https://medium.com/@jessielaine.punongbayan
Zowe.org - https://www.zowe.org
Open Mainframe Project COBOL Course - https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/coboltrainingcourse
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Eli Dow - Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
When it comes to keeping data safe, there's no such thing as too many options. In this episode, Eli Dow gives us a peek into how it all works, how it will help us from a personal and business standpoint, and how you can get started today.
Learn more here:
https://fhe-website.mybluemix.net
Get the toolkit here:
https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-macos
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Chris Poole - IKS and Hyper Protect
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Live from Fort Poole, we welcome Chris Poole to talk about the latest in protecting valuable business applications and data, IBM Kuberenetes Service and Hyper Protect
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Rebecca Gott - Blockchain on Z
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
At the intersection of transactions, security, and business logic sits Blockchain. Hard to think of a better platform than IBM Z to stand this up and leverage the already-impressive capabilities of the platform. Rebecca Gott, DE for Blockchain on IBM Z
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Dave Jeffries - Bringing DevOps to a Mainframe Organization
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
You don't go from Waterfall to Agile overnight, but real meaningful change requires a driving force to maintain momentum. In this episode, Dave Jeffries, VP of z/OS Development talks about making strides in modernizing mainframe development
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Dan Jast - Ansible for z/OS
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
The hits just keep on coming, and in another huge step forward for Z, you now have the option of using Ansible for automation of z/OS applications. Curious why all the fanfare? Let Dan Jast, Offering Manager for Ansible on z/OS fill in the blanks.
Friday May 01, 2020
Ross Mauri - 100th Episode Spectacular
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
From humble beginnings come great things. It's up to you to figure out if we're talking about the show, mainframes, or today's extra-special guest, IBM Z General Manager, Ross Mauri. Happy 100 Episodes, let's keep this going!
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Tom Ross - Captain COBOL
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
It should come as no surprise that important applications need rock-solid code. COBOL, being a language specifically designed for highly-precise transactions at high scale delivers just that, and Tom Ross is the perfect guest to tell us about it.