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DSI Delves Into IBM i Backup Software

May 24, 2017 Alex Woodie

Dynamic Solutions International (DSI) may be best known as a provider of virtual tape library (VTL) solutions for IBM i and other platforms. But now the Colorado company is getting into the software space with a pair of backup offerings designed specifically for IBM i environments.

Conductor and Tracker were unveiled by DSI earlier this month prior to the annual COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. The products were created to bolster the management of backups of the company’s VTL clients that are backing up from IBM i. But they don’t necessarily require a VTL at all, and, in fact, can …
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BCD Presto Mobilizes Green Screen To Web App Dev

May 24, 2017 Dan Burger

Not every green-screen RPG application needs to be modernized. Some need it more than others. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The same can be said for desktop apps. They don’t all have to be capable of rendering on mobile devices, but some need it more than others. Now BCD Software is helping in the decision making process by bringing responsive development capabilities to its version 7 release of Presto.

Presto, of course, is BCD’s most popular modernization tool, while responsive design is the capability to design Web pages that display on any device desktop or mobile with a single …
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CNX Kickstarts Development with Valence 5.1

May 24, 2017 Alex Woodie

A new release of the Valence Framework from CNX will enable IBM i shops to get more Web programming and modernization work done with even less effort than before.

The Chicago-based company has been speaking the “less is more” mantra since the 2014 launch of Valence 4.0, one of the first releases that included Nitro add-on tools that handle tasks on behalf of the user. After all, why should the user get bogged down in the intricacies of coding JavaScript when software can do it instead?

Nitro’s auto-coding capabilities are once again front-and-center in Valence 5.1, which CNX launched …
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Four Hundred Monitor, May 24

May 24, 2017 Dan Burger

What’s more popular than a barbeque on a summer weekend? That’s easy. Steve Will, IBM i chief architect at the COMMON Annual Meeting. In his “You and i” blog, the Chief writes about the fun and the fundamentals of an IBM i technical conference.

Proof that what goes around comes around is the chatter these days about running IT as a business. That means IT needs to make money not spend it. And do you know the top reasons for employees leaving their jobs? Hint: It’s not the money. One more thing . . . IT service providers are coming …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 20

May 24, 2017 Doug Bidwell

The most amazing fix that Big Blue has ever done for the techies who administer and program the IBM i platform happened last week: After 16 years of playing the same snippet of song in a loop for those dying on hold waiting for the support line, IBM finally relented and changed its tune.

I had to hang up and call back to have them put me on hold so I could verify that it was not an accident. Amazing!

In this week’s IBM i PTF Guide, there is a bunch of stuff going on. The MQ for IBM …
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DSI Delves Into IBM i Backup Software

BCD Presto Mobilizes Green Screen To Web App Dev

CNX Kickstarts Development with Valence 5.1

Four Hundred Monitor, May 24

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 20

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