“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” It’s the most repeated line in the...
Author - Mark Schettenhelm
Maximize the Benefits of Your Mainframe CI/CD Pipeline
Including the mainframe in your CI/CD pipeline is one of the most effective ways to accelerate...
DevOps Insights From the 2025 BMC Mainframe Survey
Twenty years of asking mainframe professionals questions gives you a lot of perspective. When BMC...
We’ve Seen This Before – Balancing the Cost of AI
The mainframe industry has always struggled with balancing resource costs against developer...
That New Mainframe Tool That Makes a Difference
Car mechanics are all about their tools. Their biggest expense when starting a repair shop is...
Refactoring Mainframe Code to Accelerate Development
Keeping mainframe development moving at the speed required by the business can be a challenge. Many...
How to Respond Quickly to Runaway Abends
Many of us have experienced the phenomenon: New code reaches production and abends, then abends...
Shortcuts On the Path to Mainframe DevOps
Moving established mainframe development processes to DevOps can seem like a daunting task...
Mainframe DevOps and the Mother Road
In John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, he called Route 66, a well-known United States...
Top 4 Reasons Your Mainframe Team Needs ChatOps
In my career, I’ve witnessed workplace communication evolve with technology, transforming from...