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Reporter’s Notebook: COMMON Spring 2017

May 10, 2017 Alex Woodie

Harry Potter sightings remain at an abnormally high level here at the COMMON conference, which is taking place in the heart of Universal Orlando. The young wizard appears to be everywhere – in sessions, by the pool, at the Expo, buying raffle tickets. But it’s left some wondering: Can he program in ILE?

The COMMON conference wraps up today after a four-day run here at the brand-spanking-new Lowes Sapphire Falls Resort. The site has mostly lived up to the expectations of COMMON’s management, who booked the event before the massive construction project was even finished. You just can’t fake that …
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IBM i Vendors Seeking ‘Meaningful Exits’ Have Options

May 10, 2017 Alex Woodie

Skills depletion within the IBM i community has been well documented on these pages in issues past. Another side effect of working on an older computer platform is the aging of the software vendor community itself. As the baby boomer owners approach retirement age, a handful of industry consolidators are eager to give the software companies they created good homes.

One of the most active vendors in the IBM i community over the past few years is Fresche Solutions. The Montreal, Quebec-based company was known as Speedware back in 2012 when it bought a German RPG migration tool company …
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Profound Digs Deeper Into Node.js

May 10, 2017 Dan Burger

All things considered, most IBM i shops would prefer to retain and enhance their investments in a stable, secure and proven system than accept the risk and expense of rewriting applications in another language or migrating from the platform. And why not? The IBM i is a modern business computing system capable of handling sought after technologies such as mobile, analytics, open source and cognitive.

For companies aiming to enhance their IBM i environments, Profound Logic Software has just released Profound.js 2.0, a methodology for enhancing applications that uses a combination of Node.js and RPG in an agile development environment. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, May 10

May 10, 2017 Dan Burger

Why would anyone want to move on-premise IBM i infrastructure to the cloud? Utility pricing, moving a development environment off the production server, and establishing a disaster recovery plan are a few things that come to mind.

This edition of Monitor also includes articles on the top CIO challenges (business and IT alignment is a big one) and the nightmares brought on by H1-B visa program. You’ll also find useful resources and a calendar of events that includes tech conferences and local user group meeting agendas. If you are not a member of a local user group, you’re missing out …
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IBM I PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 18

May 10, 2017 Doug Bidwell

This week in PTFs is all about HIPERs, Security, and Hardware patches. For the HIPERs, the biggie is excessive VLOGing fixes, plan cache tweaks, and cloud-init open source issues have been fixed. On the security front, there is a PTF that corrects RFC 2328 ambiguities and vulnerabilities.

As for the hardware patches, there are a bunch, including:
- MF63396 – Slider SES Firmware: 4170
- Improved error handling during SES FW updates to prevent
- possible device errors, such as SRCxxxx3002. Enhancements to connector Fault LED functionality
- Diagnostic improvements for expander to power supply communication and failure detection
- Improved error handling and reporting
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Reporter’s Notebook: COMMON Spring 2017

IBM i Vendors Seeking ‘Meaningful Exits’ Have Options

Profound Digs Deeper Into Node.js

Four Hundred Monitor, May 10

IBM I PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 18

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