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Tomorrowland: Optimism, Risk, and Preparation For IBM i App Dev

June 28, 2017 Dan Burger

The rules of application development were never carved in stone. They’ve always been subject to change, improvements, enhancements and even replacements. Uncertainty and risk – do you stay or do you go – torture the brains of long-range planners who recognize the importance of preparation, but are caught in the whirlpool of innovation and hyperbole. Predicting future skills and tools is not an exact science. But with a high degree of certainty, we do know that sitting on your hands is no way to prepare for the future.

I asked a group of skillful IBM i application development monitors and …
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Database Modernization Network Grows for TEMBO

June 28, 2017 Alex Woodie

A growing network of business partners is helping TEMBO Technology Lab spread the word about the benefits of database modernization to IBM i shops in North America. It’s also helping to lower the barrier to of entry for IBM i clients to get started.

If you ask a group of IBM i professionals what application modernization means, you’ll likely hear a lot of different answers: the importance of avoiding “legacy” technologies, why free form RPG is great, the value of responsive design, and the importance of having a “mobile first” approach.

To TEMBO founder Marinus van Sandwyk, these answers aren’t …
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Improving Customer Engagement on IBM i

June 28, 2017 Alex Woodie

A new survey points to a growing desire among IBM i shops to offer more customer engagement channels to their customers. However, the cost of implementing these changes and a lack of technical skills present considerable barriers, according to SoftLanding Systems, which conducted the poll.

IT resources are a limited asset at most organizations. They must choose carefully when and where to deploy these resources for maximum affect. At the same time, there is usually a long list of “wants” from various lines of business, and perhaps a shorter list of more critical “needs.” It’s up to the CIO and …
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Four Hundred Monitor, June 28

June 28, 2017 Dan Burger

Jack Woehr duly notes IBM i open source proponents who are porting useful, popular open source to the i platform. But he also points to another path, one that he describes as object-disoriented. He can call it anything he wants, because he’s the one who blazed the trail. Woehr’s trail is generally a Java interpreter and specifically an interpretive form of JTOpen that makes it easier to encapsulate legacy IBM i as-is and offload the Web dev to the people who do Web dev best.

The quality of the products being produced in the open source community and the inclusiveness …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 25

June 28, 2017 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to your own personal IBM i Patch Wednesday and the IBM i PTF Guide that helps you figure out what patches to apply to your releases so you can keep current and therefore keep optimal in terms of performance, stability, and security.

In this week’s rendition, we see that the High Availability Group has some new fixes for us. I am a week or two late in reporting them for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.2, but they are here and available for us. The newest fixes allow for additional logging for better error determination in special resynch …
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Tomorrowland: Optimism, Risk, and Preparation For IBM i App Dev

Database Modernization Network Grows for TEMBO

Improving Customer Engagement on IBM i

Four Hundred Monitor, June 28

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 25

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