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Introducing the 2024 TechChannel Rising Stars, who have worked on #IBMZ or #IBMPower for five years or fewer but are already making a significant impact. Sponsored by @BroadcomMSD and imPower Technologies. Meet this year's Rising Stars: https://t.co/eg9vqUgSkH

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In IT operations, a number with the wrong label can send a whole team in the wrong direction. Here, Srithan Gade covers how AI summaries can confuse free and available memory—and how you can ensure a summary reflects the meaning of source metrics:
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Join TechChannel on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at noon CST for "More Mainframe Capacity for IBM Z. More Confident Decisions," a live Innovation Hour for IT leaders, developers and systems administrators.

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IBM Bob is built for the mainframe. Is your team ready to use it well? TechChannel's interactive e-book covers how IBM Bob handles IBM Z environments, how to stretch your Bobcoins further.

Explore the e-book: https://t.co/S82pmOEna1

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When your longtime IBM i talent is preparing to retire, the platform doesn't have to go with them. With the right succession plan in place, your business operations can continue without a hiccup—and you get to keep your IBM i competitive advantage.

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Join TechChannel for a high-impact Innovation Hour. You'll also discover how teams can self-serve answers through source-linked documentation and diagrams, accelerate application questions into reviewed SQL and usable results.

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Moving data off the mainframe often means going from a tightly encapsulated environment to an open one, where data constantly traverses APIs and external services. This article by Nicole Willing explains the security ramifications of these differences.
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Getting the most from AI on IBM Power means knowing both the tool and the platform. TechChannel's interactive e-book on IBM Bob for IBM i covers smart token consumption, application context, avoiding AI cognitive atrophy..

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Join Broadcom's Kyle Weeks, and Brett Morris as they walk through how CenterStage Assistant helps you tune SQL, remediate problematic objects and become more self-sufficient administering Db2 on z/OS.

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Join us Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, at 10 a.m. CST for "Stop Chasing Expirations: Get Control of Mainframe Certificate Management," sponsored by Broadcom Mainframe Software featuring Broadcom's Narender Eshwar Sajnani

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Join TechChannel and CDW for Modernizing Mainframe Applications with SAMA, a live webinar on Thu, Oct 29, at 10:00 AM CDT. You'll get actionable insights on modernization strategies, application portfolio analysis and risk reduction.

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Not every mainframe shop uses modern tools like Zowe/VS Code. Acknowledging that reality, Stephen Johnston is helping fellow new-to-Z technologists unlock VS Code-like functionality in ISPF.

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Unlock more potential from IBM Power with expert guidance designed to improve performance. See how. 👉 https://t.co/kwRiIepeor

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Sources tell us it's #HugYourMainframeDay. But if you don't have a mainframe to hug, don't worry. You can still celebrate by geeking out with Dr. Joe Gulla, who covers the significance of APIs and their tooling on the modern mainframe here:
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Your IBM i may be stable. The team, tools and plans around it are changing. What application knowledge should never have to be rediscovered?

Read Ozgar's Spotlight now👉 https://t.co/ZUiuHJ0gy5

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Better visibility. Greater control. More confidence. Explore NewEra Software solutions for IBM Z.

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Looking to bring generative AI into your z/OS workflows? This step-by-step guide shows how to build a mainframe AI assistant in OMVS that can explain JCL or COBOL members, using Python, IBM Z Open Automation Utilities and Amazon Bedrock.

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TechChannel's new e-book, "Security at the AI Frontier," covers what that means for your defense posture, with insights from security experts at Broadcom, Evolving Solutions, and Lightedge.

👉Read it here: https://t.co/r7J4WIY8K8

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Our team will be at IBM TechXchange for NAViGATE, bringing deep IBM i education to one of the world's largest technical conferences.

We'll be there. Will you? Register today 👉
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We all need a little excitement in our lives, but not during a mainframe storage migration. Here, Chris Harvey explains why uneventful migrations are rarely an accident.

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When Marc Smith talks to high school students as part of his work promoting mainframe education, he uses a presentation titled "Enterprise Computing's Best Kept Secret." If he had to come up with a new title, that would be a good problem to have.

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