TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 14 Archives

IBM i License Transfer Deal Comes To The Power S812 Mini

March 6, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in the early days of the AS/400 midrange system, the processor, memory, networking, and disk and tape storage hardware embodied in the system was by far the most costly part of that system, far outweighing the cost of the systems software that ran atop it. We don’t have the precise numbers at hand, but it was something like 85 percent hardware cost and 15 percent software cost.

Fast-forward a few decades, and the Moore’s Law improvements in every component in the hardware means that hardware is far less costly. But software doesn’t have a Moore’s Law scaling; in fact, …
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The Missing RPG OA Puzzle Piece

March 6, 2017 Dan Burger

RPG Open Access is a technology that was introduced with much fanfare with the IBM i 7.1 release of the operating system. That was in 2010. A handful of software vendors showed what it could do by using it in their application modernization tool kits as a means to get beyond screen-scraping and actually control the user interface.

Now RPG OA is seven years old and not a lot has changed. A few more vendors have incorporated it as a method for creating user interfaces. The potential for RPG OA is mostly unrealized and it remains unrecognized by the majority …
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Guru: The PHP Path To Victory, Part 1

March 6, 2017 Chris Ringer

If you read my two previous PHP articles, you may be tempted to make the leap to use PHP on your IBM i. But you may also have reservations because how in the world will you technically support those apps post implementation?

This article discusses the path a PHP request takes as it travels through various subsystems up to your RPG code and how to do basic troubleshooting if something goes wrong.

Tag Team Match

Often greatness is achieved with the help of someone else. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen. Babe Ruth had Lou Gehrig. And Abbott had Costello. In …
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IBM i Cloud Providers React To Amazon S3 Outage

March 6, 2017 Alex Woodie

Last week’s Amazon S3 outage served as a wakeup call that cloud platforms, despite the scalability and availability advantages, actually aren’t infallible. But will the Internet giant’s East Coast outage have any lasting effect on cloud adoption? And will it impact cloud adoption among IBM i customers? We asked some experts to find out.

User error was blamed on the “impairment” of US East 1, one of 16 “regions” under the massive AWS tent. The region, which is based in AWS’ Ashburn, Virginia data center, never went down entirely, despite claims that all of AWS was down, or that the …
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Servers Hit The Skids Last Year, This Year Might be No Better

March 6, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As the first building block of any system is the server, and watching how these are acquired, managed, and disposed of tells you a lot about what is going on with applications in the datacenter and who is making money off of them. It has been a long time since the Power Systems division at IBM has been an economic powerhouse in the server space, but now even the X86 platform, long dominated by Intel, is starting to show some signs of losing its luster.

It stands to reason. In the final quarter of this year, X86-based machines accounted for …
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IBM i License Transfer Deal Comes To The Power S812 Mini

The Missing RPG OA Puzzle Piece

Guru: The PHP Path To Victory, Part 1

Tag Team Match

IBM i Cloud Providers React To Amazon S3 Outage

Servers Hit The Skids Last Year, This Year Might be No Better

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