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RDi Jumps Aboard The TR Train

October 9, 2017 Dan Burger

What is it going to take to convince IBM i developers that RDi, a modern Eclipse-based development environment with an impressive list of productivity enhancements, is a better development tool than the traditional green-screen tools that were designed decades ago? While IBM hasn’t upgraded the green-screen development tools in years, the investment in RDi continues. The latest Technology Refreshes, announced last week, embellished the list of productivity features RDi offers.

Most IBM i shops that are using modern RPG coding techniques are familiar with RDi and the value of modernizing applications that are significant business assets. It is the organizations …
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Power9 Big Iron “Fleetwood/Mack” Rumors

October 9, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Sometimes, the universe just hands you a great title, like that one above. As the Power9 platform is rolling out across the field to various launch pads, with entry, midrange, and high-end systems in the works, word always inevitably leaks out about what Big Blue has planned with its future systems.

In the case of the high-end machines, we are hearing rumors that the current top-end Power E880 and its half-pint Power E870, which went by the code-name “Brazos” within IBM, likely in deference to the river in New Mexico, will be replaced by a machine code-named “Fleetwood,” no doubt …
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Guru: Making Sense of Codes

October 9, 2017 Ted Holt

I have most likely never seen your database, yet I can tell you with confidence that it is full of codes. We can’t live without them. Codes give us shortcuts for all sorts of types and categories. They consume less storage than the values they represent. They help us keep the database clean and consistent within itself.

But they surely can be hard to read. Some codes are obvious. M for male and F for female, for instance. My experience is that most are not so. Look at this and see how much sense you can make of it.
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As I See It: Free Speech in Restricted Times

October 9, 2017 Victor Rozek

Though it saddens me to say it, I’ve had the exact same experience of just about every president I can remember—regardless of party affiliation. Sooner or later, at some point during their administration, I just can’t stand them anymore.

I can’t stand to see their face on TV, or hear their voice any longer. I can’t stand the lies, the empty promises, the soaring rhetoric that produces nothing of lasting value, the threats, the chest pounding, the epic incompetence, the ability to inspire but not to lead. I can’t stand the policies they represent, the compromises they make, the triumph …
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Cost, Simplicity Driving Cloud HA Adoption

October 9, 2017 Alex Woodie

In years past, the IBM i community has adopted high availability software at a slow but steady pace. But the cloud portion of this market is growing at a much faster rate, thanks to the lower costs and simpler setups that cloud-based high availability brings to customers.

Penetration of high availability software into the IBM i market is likely to hit 50 percent this year for the first time ever. That forecast can reasonably be made by looking at HelpSystems‘ 2017 IBM i Marketplace Survey, which showed a 2 percent jump in HA usage from 2015 to 2016, …
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RDi Jumps Aboard The TR Train

Power9 Big Iron “Fleetwood/Mack” Rumors

Guru: Making Sense of Codes

As I See It: Free Speech in Restricted Times

Cost, Simplicity Driving Cloud HA Adoption

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