TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 37 Archives

IBM i And AIX Won’t Get Power9 Until 2018

June 5, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In case you have not figured it out yet, IBM’s biggest priority when it comes to the Power9 processor is Linux. Not IBM i and not AIX, which are Big Blue’s own operating system platforms and which have generated the vast majority of revenues for the combined Power platform since Linux made its debut on Power and System z machines almost two decades ago.

As we have previously reported, IBM is getting ready to launch the Power9 processors sometime in the second half of this year, and officially has not given a precise date for when the first systems using …
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Understanding IBM i Options For High Availability

June 5, 2017 Alex Woodie

There are many options when it comes to high availability (HA) for IBM i. Should you use logical replication software like MIMIX, or a hardware-based solution like PowerHA? Should you deploy to the cloud, or stay on premise? Is remote journaling the way to go or should you roll your own? IT decision-makers must do their homework if they’re going to find the right solution for them.

If you’re in the market for a HA solution – and recent surveys indicate that many IBM i shops are shopping for HA in 2017 – then you should probably start at the …
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Guru: Common Table Expressions Can Replace Query Chains

June 5, 2017 Ted Holt

Modernization efforts often concentrate on the database and programs. That is well and good, but there is more to modernization. Replacing Query for IBM i with more modern query tools is also important. But what do you do with those queries that people depend on? More confusing, what do you do with query chains?

A query chain is a series of queries that run one after another, consolidating and reformatting data in temporary physical files, in order to produce a resulting data set, often in report form. It’s not unusual to see small CL programs like the following one:
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Mad Dog 21/21: King Solomon’s Mimes

June 5, 2017 Hesh Wiener

King Solomon enjoys a prominent place in the Bible and Quran; in Arabic the name is Sulayman. A son of King David, Solomon was, according to scripture, the wisest and wealthiest of the Hebrew Kings. After his reign, Israel split in two, with the smaller part governed by Solomon’s son Rehoboam, the larger part by the unrelated Jeroboam. Our greatest contemporary corporate kings resemble Solomon. While none have 700 wives and 300 concubines, their lawyers, dreaming of the prenup work, may wish they had Solomon’s connubial inclinations.

While archeologists and other scholars have not been able to put science behind …
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The App Dev World According To Gapp

June 5, 2017 Dan Burger

Somewhere in the tangle of business requirements and IT capabilities is the elusive goal of developing applications that perform well regardless of the device they run on. Can IT provide the user experience that meets the ever-changing business needs and users’ expectations? The answer, in many instances, is “not exactly.”

The evolution of business applications has created many distractions, disruptions, and dissatisfactions. In some organizations, the evolution is ignored – nothing changes. In other organizations, shadow IT worms its way into departments that operate outside centralized control creating disparate degrees of lunacy and sorrow. Steve Gapp has seen it all …
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IBM i And AIX Won’t Get Power9 Until 2018

Understanding IBM i Options For High Availability

Guru: Common Table Expressions Can Replace Query Chains

Mad Dog 21/21: King Solomon’s Mimes

The App Dev World According To Gapp

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