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  • Printing Investments In The Digital Age

    April 5, 2017 Dan Burger

    How does a company that’s invested in AFP and IPDS printing processes modernize to keep pace with increasing demand? There are certainly options. Some are better than others, with strengths varying depending on the ultimate goals. Some are more expensive than others, and that depends on whether the comparison is strictly upfront costs or considers total cost of ownership.

    For many companies, print volumes are increasing and weak performance becomes a hot button issue. Slow printer speeds, limited printer availability, and perhaps the worst of all, printer downtime, all need to be addressed. But don’t overlook workflow processes, management of …

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  • Speedy PHP 7 Now Available for IBM i

    April 5, 2017 Alex Woodie

    The fast new PHP language and runtime that Zend Technologies has been working on for two years is now available for IBM i. With the delivery of PHP 7.1 and Zend Server for i 9.1 yesterday, the company says IBM i shops can expect to see their PHP applications run anywhere from 50 to 200 percent faster than before. IBM i shops will also benefit from MariaDB support and a new clustering capability.

    The introduction of PHP 7 last fall marked a major overhaul of the popular scripting language that runs on all major platforms. As the first major release …

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  • Vanguard Goes Mobile With Content Management

    April 5, 2017 Alex Woodie

    Vanguard Systems last week debuted eMobile, a new mobile app that allows users to interact with its enterprise content management (ECM) system from the comfort of an iOS or Android app. As an extension to its flagship IBM i-based Vanguard ECM, eMobile keeps users hooked into the document workflow even when they’re out of the office.

    Nobody said the shift from paper-based forms to digital document management would happen overnight. Even today, in the sixth decade of mainstream business computing, paperwork that’s based on actual paper – as opposed to digital forms represented by pixels on screen – is still …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, April 5

    April 5, 2017 Dan Burger

    Technically, you don’t need SQL to survive. However, if you’re not using it, you should know what you are missing. Here’s a conversational introduction to SQL that can open the door to modern programming techniques that can modernize applications and databases by reducing the amount of coding and moving business logic to the database.

    This week’s Monitor also has articles about tech start-ups in unlikely places in the United States heartland, a new IBM Cloud and Red Hat Linux partnership built on OpenStack, IBM’s change of heart regarding work-at-home programs, and a piece on why people should and should not …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 13

    April 5, 2017 Doug Bidwell

    It has been a good week for fixes, people of IBM i Land. The DB2 groups were released for V7R2 and V7R3, and the Performance Tools groups are out for all three V7 releases. Another good thing is that the MG tools announced a new version, and Option 24 on its main menu adds some great functionality for assisting in the management of PTFs on your system.

    But the big news is that the Java client has a new release, V1.1.7.0, with anxiously awaited new functionality. You can download the latest base package at this link: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/access/solutions.html.

    As I …

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