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?? ?Clock Change ?? Event planning update: DevOps ?? Improving the Mainframe Developer Experience To Gain A Competitive Advantage ?? JES3 & JES3plus ?? The z/OS V2.5 continuous delivery (CD) model continues! ? Delta Airlines ?? What Next For The Mainframe ?? Just for Fun {mainframe and non-mainframe specific stories} - The growing energy consumption needed by your Data centre ?? Useful Links ??

Clock Change

A final reminder the clocks change this weekend on the 26th March in the UK and Europe.

If you want to start planning early for clock change the UK Government has a calendar for the next 5 years of when the clocks will change.

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?? Event planning update: DevOps

A quick update, our next Mainframerz event, planning is underway if you have any questions you would like answered on DevOps, please let me know.

I can't guarantee we will address every question but I will pass them on whilst we are planning for our next event.

Improving the Mainframe Developer Experience To Gain A Competitive Advantage

DevOps success depends on healthy systems management, but mainframe operations teams often struggle with increasing development velocity, data volumes, and customer demands.

To keep up, they need to shift from reactive fixes to proactive prevention of service issues.

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Jes3 to Jes3plus

A path to continue using the JES3 technology, Phoenix Software International is doing everything possible to make JES3plus the obvious choice for existing IBM JES3 customers. It’s the easiest path. It’s the least risky and most cost-effective option.

Moving to JES3plus allows customers to focus on their business objectives and not their infrastructure.?JES3plus? is a licensed, derivative work based on IBM’s JES3 source code with a very straightforward implementation that is no more effort than implementing a new version of IBM JES3 as part of your z/OS? upgrade.?

JES3 will no longer be included in the new upcoming IBM z/OS 3.1 release and z/OS 2.5 is the last time JES3 is available through IBM.

JES3plus is a seamless and easy switch for those of you using JES3 currently.

Customers will have complete transparency with their user community.?

?? ?? JES3plus training is now available through Interskill Learning here:

?? ?? A data sheet is also available on JES3plus here:

The z/OS V2.5 continuous delivery (CD) model continues!

The z/OS V2.5?1Q 2023 CD announcement?contains new key features and functional enhancements to help extend the capabilities of z/OS V2.5.

Thank you to the post from Anders B?cklund who reminded me of these new updates.

?? ?? Read more about the latest Q1 2023 - full announcement available here:

Delta Airlines: Stays Indoors & Looks At The Clouds

If you are thinking about a hybrid solution and have been wondering what this may look like or how it may be achieved combining Cloud & Mainframe the Delta Airlines news story may be of interest.

The Atlanta-based airline has adopted a hybrid architecture, with a solution that leverages the agility of the cloud and the reliability of the mainframe.

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"Whatever Comes Next" - For The Mainframe

If you are like me and like to know what the next big thing on the mainframe may be or where we may be heading next in terms of use of the mainframe. I can share a summary from an article I was reading which states:

Mainframe growth is predicted to continue to grow on average by approximately 4.5% per year towards 2025 to $2.9bn.

The growth on the mainframe will be led by two main factors, these are increasing adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) & Mainframe as a Service (MaaS).

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?? Just for fun {mainframe & non-mainframe}

The growing energy consumption needed by your data centre

All of us who work with the mainframe or the cloud will be aware of the problem of energy consumption needed by data centre's.

I wrote this article just for fun, you may find a surprise in the story...

The UK Government, like many other countries, has an ambitious target of being carbon neutral by 2050. Could a new solution could have been found?

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