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Patrick Stanard

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Patrick Stanard is Chief Mainframe Architect for Kyndryl US and Global Lead for the Design Authority for Japan.

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The Evolution of Mainframe Education: A Follow-Up

Patrick Stanard

November 29, 2023

Kyndryl works hard to provide opportunities for young people in the field of mainframe technology. Although many mainframers are approaching retirement, Kyndryl is smashing that paradigm. Last year, I wrote an article on the first Kyndryl Internship. I thought it was very important to pen a follow-up to that article, as this topic could not […]

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Redefining Modernization: Application Transformation

Patrick Stanard

August 30, 2023

Anyone that works with a mainframe today understands that the mainframe is, indeed, already a modern machine. Just look at the new features with the z16. The key today is how do we optimize the mainframe to include the latest advancements and features of the mainframe. Optimizing allows the user to implement best practices based […]

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Innovation and the Mainframe: Let’s Create Some Magic

Patrick Stanard

June 8, 2023

The topic of innovation runs deep within the mainframe. In fact, the mainframe is one of the most innovative platforms on this planet and it just about singlehandedly drives our world economy. If that isn’t innovation, I don’t know what is. I am in complete agreement with a quote from Alfred Nobel, “If I have […]

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The Power of Containers on the Mainframe

Patrick Stanard

March 30, 2023

Acronyms drive me crazy—and having worked more than 30 years for a company that made its living on acronyms…you can understand why. Enter: zCX, or IBM z/OS Container Extensions. It was released for z/OS 2.4 and provides Docker Swarm as support for Docker containers and cluster management. zCX is the vehicle that allows your IBM […]

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The Evolution of Mainframe Education

Patrick Stanard

October 28, 2022

The average age of a mainframer is 58 years old. Yes, most of us have gray hair and wear Aerosmith tee shirts to work. The task at hand is how do we pass the baton of mainframe knowledge to the next class of mainframers that will support the massive mainframe ecosystem that runs our world […]

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The Importance of Mainframe Documentation

Patrick Stanard

April 4, 2022

The discovery of Egyptian hieroglyphics was the event that led to the definitions of the formal writing system that was once used in ancient Egypt as part of the native language. Egyptian hieroglyphics had more than 1,000 distinct characters that were used to tell the stories associated with the time. In the same vein, telling […]

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 on IBM Z Is a Game Changer for Container Orchestration and Management

Patrick Stanard

May 13, 2021

Red Hat recently announced OpenShift 4.7, which offers support for IBM Z mainframes. As IBM mainframes march towards modernization—a hot topic for many corporations—OpenShift 4.7 provides the orchestration and management capabilities needed for containers running on IBM Z, and specifically Linux on IBM Z. For many large mainframe customers pursuing a path of system modernization, […]

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Today’s Business Systems Run on COBOL

Patrick Stanard

March 10, 2021

In my past life I was a COBOL developer. Yes, I did use Herman Hollerith 80-column punched cards to do my programming. Yes, COBOL has been around for a very long time and yes, COBOL is very alive and well in the year 2021! 60 years old and counting. Admiral Grace Hopper and COBOL  Let’s […]

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A Virtual Tape Primer

Patrick Stanard

November 1, 2018

The word “virtual” is used to describe something that doesn’t physically exist, but is made by software to appear to do so. Virtual tape is an enterprise data storage solution that imitates physical tape drives by storing information on disk drives. In reality, the data is saved in tape format but is actually stored on […]