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Jose Caso Jacobs

Jose Caso Jacobs is product marketing manager at LANSA.

  • When Choosing Your Path To Modernize Your IBM i, Use A Guide

    October 26, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

    When you are moving into a new frontier, it always helps to have a guide who has been there before and who knows the lay of the land and literally where all of the pitfalls are. We have just such pathfinders, and they want to help.

    One guide is Mike Mahan, who is global sales director at LANSA and who has a wide range of sales and management experience across many IT vendors in his more than three decades in the industry. The other guide is Eugene King, who is a senior sales engineer at LANSA.

    If your IT organization …

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  • Use A Pathfinder And Choose Your Path To Modernize Your IBM i

    October 24, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

    When you are moving into a new frontier, it always helps to have a guide who has been there before and who knows the lay of the land and literally where all of the pitfalls are. We have just such pathfinders, and they want to help.

    One guide is Mike Mahan, who is global sales director at LANSA and who has a wide range of sales and management experience across many IT vendors in his more than three decades in the industry. The other guide is Eugene King, who is a senior sales engineer at LANSA.

    If your IT organization …

    Read more
  • Smart Modernization Is The Answer To IBM i Talent Shortage

    September 28, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

    When we are at the COMMON POWERUp 2022 conference a few months ago, we were amazed by the number of IT managers that approached us because of a shortage of IBM i programming talent. The dearth of programmers that are experienced with the business as well as legacy and modern programming techniques has pushed a lot of businesses up against the wall, with lost agility and in some cases delayed projects.

    As bad as that is, the situation could be worse. We have all heard the horror stories, where the executive suite or upper IT management push to switch away …

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  • IBM i Modernization – Life After RPG

    March 30, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

    How an IBM i business approaches legacy application modernization doesn’t differ from application modernization on any other platform. Well, there is one slight difference. Many of those IBM i businesses have the added weight of replacing working legacy applications for the simple fact that RPG fell out of mainstream coding decades ago. The code is efficient and perfectly runs mission-critical apps, but there are fewer and fewer programmers around to maintain that code.

    Colleges and universities stopped teaching RPG before Y2K was even a concern. Developers that learned RPG in the 1980s and early 1990s were 30 or 40 years …

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