IBM Z software Redbooks

30 October 2026, Redbooks Experience

The accelerating pace of software vulnerability discovery, driven in part by modern AI-assisted research tools, has rendered traditional mainframe maintenance cadences insufficient. IBM's delivery of critical security fixes has tripled in recent years, yet many organizations continue to rely on quarterly or semiannual Recommended Service Upgrade (RSU) cycles that were designed for a slower...

10 September 2026, Redpaper

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries, organizations are seeking powerful, secure, and scalable platforms to deploy AI workloads. IBM Z®, renowned for its enterprise-grade reliability and performance, is uniquely positioned to meet this demand. This IBM Redbooks publication introduces readers to the evolving landscape of AI on IBM Z, offering a comprehensive overview...

26 August 2026, Redbooks

IBM Z® platforms underpin mission-critical enterprise workloads where disruptions directly affect availability, data integrity, and business outcomes. Business continuity (BC) is achieved through designed resiliency and recovery that uses platform capabilities to contain failures, preserve service, and help ensure predictable outcomes. Resiliency sustains service during disruption by isolating...

09 June 2026, Redpaper

Many of the world's transactional workloads run on the mainframe. Organizations face a critical challenge: helping ensure the availability of workloads and an infrastructure that supports essential business applications. Many enterprises report two major challenges: an overwhelming volume of data to process and too many tools with disjointed user experiences. The mainframe does not operate in...

23 March 2026, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a broad explanation of data protection through encryption and IBM Z® pervasive encryption with a focus on IBM z/OS® data set encryption. It describes how the various hardware and software components interact in a z/OS data set encryption environment. In addition, this book concentrates on the planning and preparing of the environment and offers...

06 January 2026, Redbooks

Cyberattacks and data corruption threats continue to escalate, which makes cyber resiliency a critical component of an enterprise IT strategy. Although traditional disaster recovery (DR) focuses on physical failures, cyber resiliency addresses logical corruption that is caused by ransomware, malware, or insider threats. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Z® Cyber Vault solution...

22 December 2025, Draft Redbooks

As cyberattacks continue to increase, the cost and reputation impacts of data breaches remain a top concern across all enterprises. Even if sensitive data is encrypted and is of no use now, cybercriminals are harvesting that data because they might gain access to a quantum computer that can break classical cryptographic algorithms sometime in the future. Therefore, organizations must start...

06 May 2025, Redbooks

To guard against future cyberattacks efficiently, you should have a simple process to predict the impact of changes that are made to your security definitions. Security impact forecasting can provide a streamlined workflow in which historical data is captured automatically, and an intuitive interface enables you to set up security adaptations in a way that they can be quickly analyzed for...

19 March 2025, Redbooks

Data modernization refers to initiatives or processes that lead to more pertinent and precise data, as well as quicker and more effective data processing and analysis, thereby enhancing both organizational management and regulatory compliance while catering to industrial and societal requirements.. This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to maximize the data serving capabilities on...

28 August 2024, Redpaper

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 of the IBM® strategy to...