IBM Cloud Redbooks

02 April 2024, Redbooks

For many years, SAP migrations have been a standard process. An increasing number of customers are changing their database software to IBM® Db2® for UNIX, Linux, and Windows or are moving their existing Db2 based infrastructure from on-premises into the cloud. When customers move to the cloud, a heterogeneous system copy is often needed because of a change in the underlying hardware architecture ...

10 January 2024, Point-of-View

Batch processing is used for some of an organization’s most critical and time-sensitive business operations. It is used across many industries including, memo-posting of banking transactions in high volume, settlement and clearing, claims processing, risk assessments, payroll handling, ledger postings and reconciliations, and operational activities such as backups, reporting, data transfer, and ...

20 December 2023, Draft Redbooks

High availability and business continuity continue to be focus themes for businesses as they work hard to provide infrastructure components to support the "always available" requirements for their critical business functions. In addition, many enterprises are starting to build critical business functions on Linux servers to take advantage of the openness and portability of those applications ...

20 December 2023, Draft Redbooks

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor and configure an automation environment using Ansible in an IBM Power server environment. Ansible is a versatile and easy to use IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. With Ansible you can automate almost anything: code deployment, network configuration, server infrastructure ...

01 November 2023, Point-of-View

What is the best strategy to an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs? Answer: Accelerate your mainframe application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides an overview ...

15 September 2023, Redpaper

What is the best strategy to achieve an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs? Answer: Accelerate your IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (z/TPF) application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud. This IBM ...

30 June 2023, Redbooks

As businesses digitally transform, they can impose significant demands on existing mainframe applications and data requiring the need to modernize to achieve business outcomes. To meet this need for modernization which includes greater agility, efficiency, and innovation, they are choosing a hybrid cloud strategy that brings together the best of IBM Z® and Cloud. IBM Z integrated into a hybrid ...

28 October 2022, Redbooks

Enterprises invested millions of dollars and spent decades on developing their on-premises infrastructure. As technology advances, so has the need to leverage that infrastructure, yet still modernize the enterprises’ software portfolio to use more contemporary infrastructure, tools, and languages. Enterprises require a unified, flexible, cost-optimal hybrid cloud with portable microservices and ...

10 August 2022, Redbooks

Cybersecurity is the most important arm of defense against cyberattacks. With the recent increase in cyberattacks, corporations must focus on how they are combating these new high-tech threats. When establishing best practices, a corporation must focus on employees’ access to specific workspaces and information. IBM Z® focuses on allowing high processing virtual environments while maintaining a ...

24 May 2022, Redbooks

Data modernization enables organizations to access enterprise data and extend the business value of core data that has been collected over many years. Data modernization is any initiative or process that results in more relevant and accurate data or more efficient and timely data delivery and analyses that support both improved governance (management, science, and enforcement) and serve industry ...