TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 17 Archives

Digital Transformation Drawing Crowds In Rocket’s Road Show

March 15, 2017 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops may be relatively conservative technologically and generally resistant to bandwagons. But midrange professionals are eager to learn about digital transformation, according to Rocket Software executive Dan Magid, who’s the point man for a global roadshow dedicated to the topic.

“How do I take part in digital transformation and do it with my IBM i? It’s a very hot idea,” Magid said from the San Francisco International Airport this week as he prepared to travel across the country to meet with more customers.

Digital transformation is a relatively new concept that’s taking the business world by storm. It’s …
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Vote On New IBM i Functionality With RFE Community Program

March 15, 2017 Alex Woodie

IBM is rolling out a new program that will not only allow IBM i customers to submit requests for enhancements (RFEs) over the Web, but allow the IBM i community to vote on them. Dubbed IBM RFE Community, the developerWorks program provides another venue for informing the Rochester Lab about a problem or asking them to build a new feature into the IBM i product.

The new IBM RFE Community program for IBM i, which we told you was coming last August, is based on other RFE programs the company has had in place for other software products. Armed …
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Vision Bolsters Data Replication, Rebrands Under MIMIX

March 15, 2017 Alex Woodie

Vision Solutions may have moved out of the Windows and Linux high availability market following the sale of its Double-Take business. But the company is still building and supporting software for replicating data to and from these important platforms in real time. And with last month’s release of MIMIX Share 5.4, the Windows and Linux data replication story gets better.

Vision Solutions unapologetically doubled down on its Power Systems HA business following the sale of the Double-Take to Carbonite. With three IBM i-based HA products under its wing — including MIMIX and iTERA HA, which are under development, and …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 15

March 15, 2017 Dan Burger

What do you need from IBM i that you are not getting? If you have a thing or two in mind, IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will wants to hear from you. Here’s his phone number . . . Just kidding. The proper procedure is to use a request for enhancement. Learn more about that in today’s Monitor.

Along with an article about making change happen are a couple of articles on dealing with changes as disruptive technology and managed services reshape organizations and workforces. And speaking of change, did you see IBM’s surprising makeover at SXSW a few …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 10

March 15, 2017 Doug Bidwell

Technical Refresh updates have been a boon for the IBM i base. They have allowed IBM to keep adding features and functions to the current IBM i operating system releases without in any way breaking compatibility with the hardware levels and application software that runs on them. But you have to be careful about falling behind with the Technology Refreshes.

To be specific, as we explain in the TR tab in the IBM i PTF Guide, while the Technology Refresh updates do not happen that often, but when they do, this tab has all of the information that system …
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Digital Transformation Drawing Crowds In Rocket’s Road Show

Vote On New IBM i Functionality With RFE Community Program

Vision Bolsters Data Replication, Rebrands Under MIMIX

Four Hundred Monitor, March 15

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 10

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