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Debugging IBM’s New ‘Executive Guide’ For IBM i

February 8, 2017 Alex Woodie

Explaining the value of IBM i to a business executive is not an easy thing to do. Because so much of the computing world today runs on the Intel X86 architecture, many execs aren’t even aware there are alternatives. But there are, and the IBM i server, along with the System z mainframe, are among the last of a dying breed.

IBM recently rolled out an online resource designed to help IBM i professionals explain this weird thing called IBM i. Weighing in at nearly 7,000 words, the IBM i Strategy and Roadmap attempts to lay out the basics of …
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With RPG Nearly Excised, Infor Ponders ERP’s Future

February 8, 2017 Alex Woodie

Would a multi-tenant cloud version of Infor XA fly? That’s one of the questions that Infor’s senior product manager Ross Freeman is pondering as the company gets closer to completing the Java rewrite the ERP system written in RPG by IBM so many years ago.

The clock is ticking on RPG, not just for Infor XA (formerly MAPICS), but for all of the company’s IBM i-based ERP systems. Infor XA is just further along the process of being re-written in Java using the Infor Development Framework (IDF).

“The version [of Infor XA] coming out this year or the middle of …
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ARCAD Upgrades DevOps Software For IBM i

February 8, 2017 Dan Burger

For IBM i shops that have been using change management software for years, DevOps looks very familiar. Both improve quality and lower risk. And both make use of a framework and collaborative achievements. The major distinction for DevOps is that the collaboration involves a much wider universe of contributors. It takes into account other IT platforms and blows up the individual siloes by integrating tools and processes. And it further integrates IT and business with incremental improvements and enhancements continuously tested and put into production.

ARCAD Software, a company with a history in IBM i change management, includes DevOps …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 8

February 8, 2017 Dan Burger

While IT Jungle is pretty thorough when it comes to covering the IBM i and Power Systems market as well as adjacent areas that will ultimately affect the IBM midrange community, we are not the only source of information out there.

That was why we created Four Hundred Monitor so many years ago: to make you aware of all of the other relevant content out there on the Internet as well as to have a list of new resources and a calendar of events, all in one place. Now, Four Hundred Monitor is being incorporated into our flagship publication, The …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 5

February 8, 2017 Doug Bidwell

For the past nineteen years now, Doug Bidwell, the PTF slinger who owns IBM midrange business partner DLB Systems Associates, has been putting together a guide to help OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i shops figure out what to patch in their operating systems for midrange gear every week.

For as long as we can remember — and that is not long as we are getting a bit gray or white, depending — we have been publishing Bidwell’s IBM i PTF Guide, and we are thrilled to be getting it back on press and to be incorporating it into the …
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Debugging IBM’s New ‘Executive Guide’ For IBM i

With RPG Nearly Excised, Infor Ponders ERP’s Future

ARCAD Upgrades DevOps Software For IBM i

Four Hundred Monitor, February 8

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 5

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