The Modern Mainframe

Venafi Vice President of Security Strategy and Threat Intelligence Kevin Bocek and BMC Director of Worldwide Cybersecurity Sales Ken Chism join The Modern Mainframe to discuss automated certificate management, how it helps organizations employ their Zero Trust strategies, and the ways it benefits not only organizations' security, but their mainframe and security professionals' work experience.

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Solution Brief: BMC AMI Enterprise Connector for Venafi - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/59/48/535948/535948.pdf

Venafi - https://venafi.com/

Blog: Automated Certificate Management on the Mainframe - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/enabling-enterprise-mainframe-certificate-management/

Infographic: Towards Enterprise-wide Zero-Trust: BMC and Venafi - https://www.bmc.com/documents/infographics/enterprise-wide-zero-trust.html

On-Demand Webinar: Extending Machine Identity to the Mainframe - https://www.bmc.com/forms/build-zero-trust-by-extending-machine-identity-mainframe-webinar.html

BMC Principal Solution Engineer Roland Kinsman, Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm, and DevOps Architect and Evangelist Tony Anter talk about keeping runaway abends under control with a new feature in BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID that enables users to set notification thresholds .

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Podcast: Ease Deploy Anxiety with Automated Notifications - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/ease-deploy-anxiety-with-automated-notifications

BMC Community Post: BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID New Webhook Notifications - https://community.bmc.com/s/news/aA33n000000CuybCAC/bmc-compuware-abendaid-new-webhook-notifications

Blog: Gathering Clues in a Fraction of a Second—Batters and Developers - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-developers-batters-gathering-clues/

Blog: Notify, Then Inform with Automated Trouble Ticket Creation - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/abend-aid-automated-trouble-ticket/

Blog: Top 4 Reasons Your Mainframe Team Needs ChatOps - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-chatops-top-four-reasons/

BMC Senior Product Managers John Dannenberg and Kevin Corbett, and Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm discuss the importance of mainframe performance testing, the benefits of shifting left and automating, how to get started, and more.

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Blog: High-Performing Development Teams Use Automated Performance Testing - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-automated-performance-testing/

Podcast: Shift-Left Performance Testing on the Mainframe - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/shift-left-performance-testing-on-the-mainframe

Blog: The Benefits of Shift-Left Performance Testing - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/shift-left-performance-testing-benefits/

Blog: Keep Performance Issues From Slowing Your Innovation - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/keep-performance-issues-from-slowing-your-innovation/

BMC Principal Solution Engineer Roland Kinsman and Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm discuss a new feature in BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID that facilitates ChatOps, leading to faster issue resolution and easing deployment anxiety.

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Blog: Notify, Then Inform with Automated Trouble Ticket Creation - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/abend-aid-automated-trouble-ticket/

Blog: Top 4 Reasons Your Mainframe Team Needs ChatOps - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-chatops-top-four-reasons/

BMC Community Post: BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID New Webhook Notifications - https://community.bmc.com/s/news/aA33n000000CuybCAC/bmc-compuware-abendaid-new-webhook-notifications

Blog: Gathering Clues in a Fraction of a Second—Batters and Developers - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-developers-batters-gathering-clues/

E-book: SRE and the Mainframe: What You Need to Know - https://www.bmc.com/documents/e-book/sre-and-the-mainframe.html

BMC DevOps Architect Tony Anter and Lead Product Managers Spencer Hallman and Mark Schettenhelm join the Modern Mainframe to give their predictions for mainframe DevOps in 2023. From the use of AI/ML in analytics to the use of consistent tooling across platforms, the three share their thoughts on where DevOps is headed over the coming year.

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IDC White Paper: A Mainframe-Inclusive Approach to Your DevOps Strategy - https://www.bmc.com/forms/improve-the-mainframe-developer-experience-white-paper.html

Forrester Report: Developing Your Modern Mainframe Strategy - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/78/40/537840/537840.pdf

E-book: SRE and the Mainframe: What You Need to Know - https://www.bmc.com/documents/e-book/sre-and-the-mainframe.html

Podcast: Shift Left Security Code Scanning with BMC AMI and Veracode - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/shift-left-security-code-scanning-with-bmc-compuware-and-veracode

The authors of the BMC E-book "Ten Steps to True Mainframe Agility" discuss crucial steps along the path to agility. BMC Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm, DevOps Architect and Evangelist Tony Anter, Solutions Architect Frank Rhodes, and Senior Product Manager Kevin Corbett discuss the importance of agile development and DevOps and share their own experiences in implementing these practices.

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E-book: Ten Steps to True Mainframe Agility - https://www.bmc.com/forms/ten-steps-to-true-mainframe-agility-ebook.html

On-Demand Webinar: Ten Steps to Mainframe Agility - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89lRnAyrvFo

Podcast: Building a Better Software Delivery Platform, Chapter 5 - Source Control for Agile Software Delivery I - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/chapter-5-source-control-for-agile-software-delivery-i?in=modernmainframe/sets/building-a-better-software-delivery-platform

Podcast: Building a Better Software Delivery Platform, Chapter 11 – Test Data Management - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/chapter-11-modern-testing-data-management?in=modernmainframe/sets/building-a-better-software-delivery-platform

BMC Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm, Senior Solution Engineer Manoj Singh, and DevOps Architect and Evangelist Tony Anter discuss how automation can eliminate the "grunt work" of mainframe development and help deliver a developer experience that inspires and delights developers at any stage of their careers.

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Forrester Report: Developing Your Modern Mainframe Strategy - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/78/40/537840/537840.pdf

BMC DevOps Architect and Evangelist Tony Anter and Senior Product Managers Mark Schettenhelm, Kevin Corbett, and Paul Allard discuss a new BMC E-book, "Ten Steps to Effective Mainframe Testing," and how automated testing is essential to the effective adoption of DevOps on the mainframe. Topics include getting started with automated testing, code coverage, using the correct data, different types of tests, and more.

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E-book - 10 Steps to Mainframe Testing - https://www.bmc.com/forms/ten-steps-to-effective-mainframe-testing-ebook.html

Forrester® Consulting Study: The Total Economic Impact™ Of BMC AMI DevX Total Test - https://www.bmc.com/forms/forrester-report-tei-topaz-for-total-test.html

Podcast: The Total Economic Impact™ of Automated Testing with BMC DevX Total Test - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/topaz-for-total-test-total-economic-impact

In part two of a discussion on the mainframe developer experience, BMC Director of Software Consulting Dr. Elizabeth Maxwell, Senior Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm, and DevOps Evangelist Tony Anter talk about how the use of modern tools improves the developer experience and increases productivity, how these tools can benefit new and veteran developers alike, and new and upcoming tools that further enhance the developer experience.

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The Modern Developer Experience, Part 1 - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/mainframe-developer-experience-part-one

IDC Report: A Mainframe-Inclusive Approach to Your DevOps Strategy - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/79/31/537931/537931.pdf

BMC AMI DevX Workbench for VS Code -https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-devx-workbench.html

Blog Post: Achieving the Mainframe DevX Factor To Improve Developer Delivery and Productivity -https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-developer-experience-improve-delivery-productivity/

In the first of a two-part discussion, BMC Director of Software Consulting Dr. Elizabeth Maxwell, Senior Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm, and DevOps Evangelist Tony Anter talk about the importance of prioritizing the developer experience on the mainframe and how providing familiar tools and processes helps recruit and retain developers while increasing overall productivity.

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IDC Report: A Mainframe-Inclusive Approach to Your DevOps Strategy - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/79/31/537931/537931.pdf

BMC AMI DevX Workbench for VS Code -https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-devx-workbench.html