Andrew Ireland
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It’s Time For An Application Healthcheck
January 25, 2021 Andrew Ireland
When you get to a certain age – or, perhaps more generously, to a certain level of maturity – it is a good idea to have a health checkup at least once a year to see how your body is holding up and what can be done to deal with any problems that have arisen.
IBM i applications have the same issues as people, as does all software running on any platform – although software is a bit different in that it can be replaced, renewed, rewritten, refurbished or simply left to rot in its swamp of technical debt.
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Creating Web Services APIs Can Be Easy On IBM i
September 16, 2020 Andrew Ireland
Many IBM i customers are taking a hard look at how they can bring their heritage applications, along with all the significant business value they contain, into a modern world. There are a number of different approaches to do that, and in reality, these methods work together and complement each other. There is no one single route, but rather a combination of approaches that leads to the best results at the lowest cost and the least grief.
The average IBM i customer has something in the order of five million lines of code that embody their mission critical applications. Companies …
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