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LTO Consortium Pushes Roadmap To Gen 12

October 25, 2017 Alex Woodie

Hot on the heels of the release of final LTO-8 specifications and the first LTO-8 drives from IBM, the LTO Consortium revealed plans to push the tape technology out to a 12th generation. By the time LTO-12 ships, ostensibly in the mid-to-late 2020s, a single cartridge should be able to store nearly half a petabyte of data, according to the group.

Last week, the LTO Consortium, which is composed of IBM, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Quantum, announced that it has pushed the LTO Ultrium roadmap out two more generations. It was the first major addition since the …
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BVS Tool Generates PayPal Invoices From IBM i

October 25, 2017 Alex Woodie

A new product from BVS Tools lets organizations generate PayPal invoices from their IBM i screens with just a few clicks of the keyboard. The product, called GreenTools for PayPal (G4PP), has the potential to save customers a lot of time compared to manually creating invoices in the PayPal environment.

Use of PayPal is growing quickly as consumers look for alternative ways to buy things, particularly from their mobile phones. According to Statista, about one third of U.S. retailers accept payments through PayPal, and another 21 percent are expected to add PayPal support soon. The electronic payment network, which was …
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Cloud-Based Digital Signature Service Arrives

October 25, 2017 Dan Burger

The widespread adoption of e-commerce and its benefit of improved workflow has led to the increased use of electronic signature capture. Return on investment (ROI) from shortening transaction times has grabbed the attention of businesses in many industries. Legal and security concerns — addressed by legislation such as the ESIGN Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act — have eased the minds of many who were wary when electronic signature capture was new.

Power i4 Solution, a small, Connecticut-based custom software company with the majority of its business in the rental equipment field, has followed the e-signature orientation by …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 25

October 25, 2017 Dan Burger

IBM is one of the tech industry’s leading companies when it comes to moving jobs overseas. Low salaries, not the availability of a technically superior workforce, is the reason. Certainly, IBM is not the only company with this strategic initiative. It’s a sign of the profound change sweeping across many U.S. industries. Read more about this in the Rochester Post Bulletin editorial. A link is in this week’s Monitor.

Jobs are not only being shipped overseas, but many of them that remain here are changing considerably. CIOs are seeing and feeling the effects of disruptive technology. Jobs are being …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 42

October 25, 2017 Doug Bidwell

As you can see from this week’s IBM i PTF Guide, the latest Technology Refreshes are available. That’s TR3 (MF99203) for V7R3 and TR7 (MF99107) for V7R2. (There is not a TR for V7R1). We strongly recommend that you read the cover letters for the above PTFs because there are significant behavior issues that have changed and they tell you all about them.

Included for your perusal this week, we have a new High Availability group for all three releases:
- V7R3 – SF99876
- V7R2 – SF99776
- V7R1 – SF99706
We also have an update to the HTTP server group …
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LTO Consortium Pushes Roadmap To Gen 12

BVS Tool Generates PayPal Invoices From IBM i

Cloud-Based Digital Signature Service Arrives

Four Hundred Monitor, October 25

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 42

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