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The Lowdown On Pricing For The Power S812 Mini

March 20, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back on Valentine’s Day, IBM rolled out geared down variant of the entry Power S812 single-socket Power8 system for its IBM i and AIX customer bases, giving some of the low-cost love that it has heretofore reserved for its growing base of Linux customers on Power iron. The new machines are welcome, and we are told that they are about 20 percent lower cost than equivalently configured Power S822 and Power S824 machines.

We are setting about to try to see if this is true, and as a first step, we have been hunting around for weeks to get configured …
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IBM i Has A Cup Of Coffee With Watson

March 20, 2017 Dan Burger

As IBM steers its cognitive computing technology toward a profitable business process necessity, we are feeling the presence of Watson in the IBM i community. IBM’s business-oriented path forward for Watson should be well-suited to the “i for Business” installed base, or at least that portion of the installed base that believes IT is a competitive advantage.

Analysts foresee a river of business software flowing from embedded cognitive capabilities. They say deeper data analysis leading to smarter workflow efficiencies have the attention of business managers. And they predict three-quarters of new business software will include artificial intelligence features by …
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Conditional SQL I/O, Take 2

March 20, 2017 Ted Holt

Bob writes, “Hey, Ted! I hope you can teach an old dog a new trick. I am trying to replace the CHAIN operation with SQL. I chain once to a file to read a certain record. If that record is not found, I chain again to retrieve a default record. How can I make SQL do a second read to the same file?”

This is not a hard thing to do, as SQL has no problem joining more than once to the same table. I’ll show you two methods to retrieve your data. The first method is the easier one, …
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One On One With HelpSystems’ Debbie Saugen

March 20, 2017 Alex Woodie

HelpSystems scored a big win in the business resiliency department last month when it announced the hiring of IBM veteran Debbie Saugen to head up its new business continuity services offerings. IT Jungle caught up with Saugen and HelpSystems CEO Chris Heim last week to discuss what the move means for Saugen, how it will impact HelpSystems, and how customers will benefit.

IT Jungle: Debbie, please tell me about your background at IBM. Have you always been involved in backup and recovery?

Debbie Saugen: I spent over 37 years at IBM and I was the technical owner of IBM i …
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The Dark Side Of Automated Systems Is Bright

March 20, 2017 Dan Burger

Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates have each waved a red flag regarding the risks that could arrive with future artificial intelligence systems. To not be concerned is reckless and ignorant of the data that suggests the potential for harm. This isn’t a fear that machines with super smart operating systems will become the new Manifest Destiny with humans subjugated to supporting actor roles, but it does have its sinister bearing.

The fear factor grows from the continual eroding of jobs lost to automation and the economic disaster that result. Cries of “we have nothing to fear but fear …
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The Lowdown On Pricing For The Power S812 Mini

IBM i Has A Cup Of Coffee With Watson

Conditional SQL I/O, Take 2

One On One With HelpSystems’ Debbie Saugen

The Dark Side Of Automated Systems Is Bright

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