19 episodes
Z Application Platform Talks Tobias Leicher, Nick Garrod
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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This Podcast will talk about application platforms and also who are the people that actually develop these platforms For IBM. We will explore what will come in the future, what are successful features of today and why Runtimes like CICS and IMS have been around for that long. We try to bridge the worlds of developers and system programmers by showing how to work together. We will also discuss application architectures and patterns to show how application platforms can actually support your developers! Come join us on our virtual couch and feel free to send us questions or might have a chat with us yourself.
Tobi (tobias.leicher@de.ibm.com)
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25 Years of IBM Java - Meet Kevin who helped to make that happen
Today I am very happy to have Kevin Stoodley with me and talk a bit about the history of Java and how it became such an important technology for IBM. He was part of the Team that ported it and later designed our very own version of it, the IBM J9. Join us for a little memory tour and listen to Kevins journey to become an IBM Fellow - or more important why he now works with IBM zSystems.
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Matt and the future of the IBM zSystems Platform
Today we meet Matt Whitbourne who is our now our Produktmanager for Operating Systems and Virtualisation on the zSystems Platform and we have a chat on his way to IBM zSystems as well as why he always came back after a little tour around other platforms. He also talks a bit about the technology we can look forward to and gives us some inside on why he thinks sustainability makes the mainframe ready for primetime once again.
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Keysabel to the crypto rescue!
Isabel, Nick and Tobi shared quite some time at IBM, today she works in the Crypto Center in Copenhagen and she tells us a bit about keys, certificates and why IBM sometimes have more than one solution. She also gives us some Ideas about the challenges in the crypto space and how she helps to make the cloud more secure also using the mainframe.
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COBOL 2022? Meet Captain COBOL!
Is COBOL still relevant in 2022? Is it still further developed? Lets meet Captain COBOL and discover why COBOL is still relevant and what are the advantages of COBOL compared to other languages. COBOL is still extended every day and besides improvements in the areas of performance, new functionalities are added every day.
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The CICS Director
How does one become a Director for an important system like CICS? Today Steve Wallin joins us and explains how he ended up being the CICS director and what the glue was, that always made him come back to CICS. And when we have the CICS Director on our virtual couch, we of course have a look at the future of CICS.
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A young Developer in CICS
Today we meet Lewis James, who started straight in CICS. We had a chat about being a new starter in a well established Product like CICS and what the things are, one needed to know. Learning Assembler or PLX was never a problem for James and he could still bring in all the experience he has with modern technology. Although it was complex in Corona times, he often speaks at conferences. Meet a good example, that new talent is not an issue on IBM zSystems.