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A Philosophically Engineered Approach to the Processing of Parameters
by Ted Holt

Too often we humans give little thought to what we do or why we do it, even though taking an organized approach to an activity has its advantages. In this article, I present one approach to the handling of parameters in programs and tell why I consider this a good way to process parameters. READ MORE >

Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Hey, Ted:

I did not take your suggestion to write a subprocedure and embed it in a service program. It seemed like too much trouble to me. I wrote a program instead. It does the trick and it's a lot less complicated than all those hoops you told me to jump through. I guess ILE isn't all it's cracked up to be. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Planning An i 6.1 Upgrade
by Joe Hertvik

As of this writing, my staff and I are preparing to upgrade the first of three System i 550 partitions from i5/OS V5R4 to i 6.1 on April 14. In an earlier article, I discussed getting started with a 6.1 upgrade. As a case study, this issue I'll go over the planning process for actually performing the upgrade by reviewing my planning process for an actual IBM i partition. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
IBM Launches Hybrid, Flexible Systems Into The Data Center

A Closer Look At The Flex System Iron

IBM Rolls Out iTunes-Like Store For Enterprise Apps

As I See It: Pocket Litter

Some Carrots To Get i5/OS V5 Shops To Move Forward

Four Hundred Stuff
Velocity Sees Positive Trajectory in ERP Cloud Biz

GeneXus Refresh Targets Mobile Apps, Cloud Deployments

DB2 Connect (Finally) Gets IBM i 7.1 Support

Infor Welcomes Lawson Users to Annual Conference

Zend DBi Goes GA

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
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System i PTF Guide
April 14, 2012: Volume 14, Number 15

April 7, 2012: Volume 14, Number 14

March 24, 2012: Volume 14, Number 12

March 17, 2012: Volume 14, Number 11

March 10, 2012: Volume 14, Number 10

March 3, 2012: Volume 14, Number 9

TPM at The Register
VMware buys up benchmarketeer tools

Peeling back the skins on IBM's Flex System iron

Rackspace eats own OpenStack heavenly dog food

How EMC stuffs channel cakeholes with VSPEX recipes

WTF is... scale-in?

Gartner snips 2011 IT spending forecast – again

Red Hat joins OpenStack community

Amazon turns A9 search engine into a cloud service

Intel discloses sub-10-watt 'Centerton' Atom chip

SAP flashes cash to pump up HANA biz

Citrix chomps Podio for cloudy workspaces

IBM gets flexible with converged Power, x86 system

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Philosophically Engineered Approach to the Processing of Parameters

Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

Admin Alert: Planning An i 6.1 Upgrade

Four Hundred Guru

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