TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 77 Archives

Counting The Cost

November 27, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We are strong believers in being thorough with both the technical and economic analysis of platforms. In the absence of a lot of performance and pricing information on Power Systems iron, we are always looking for ways to help IBM i shops try to figure out what to do when they are thinking about upgrading a machine or just tossing out the old one and buying a new one.

IBM isn’t shipping Power9-based machines that can support IBM i as yet, and it is not expected to do so until early next year. But in the meantime, Big Blue wants …
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The Top iOS Apps For IBM i

November 27, 2017 Alex Woodie

Despite sharing a similar name with Apple products, IBM i isn’t mobile. You can’t run IBM i on your smartphone or tablet, let alone on your watch or whatever IoT-connected gadget people need now. But that doesn’t mean developers haven’t written a bunch of mobile apps that connect to IBM i. Here are the top 15 iOS apps for IBM i.

Being a developer of propriety hardware and software, Apple won’t share much about, well, just about anything. In fact, the super secretive company from Cupertino, Calif., doesn’t even provide a way to browse the catalog of iOS apps on …
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Guru: Using SELECT * With Cursors

November 27, 2017 Ted Holt

From time to time someone brings to my attention the use of SELECT * with SQL cursors in RPG programs. Specifically, is that a good idea or a bad idea? I have learned that the answer to that question is “It depends.” Using SELECT * in a cursor declaration may or may not get you into trouble.

To set the stage, let’s begin with a simple example — an RPG program that reads one table (physical file) and prints each row (record). Even though most programs use data from more than one table, programs that read only one table are …
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Data Analytics And Business Intelligence: Too Little, Too Much, Too Late?

November 27, 2017 Dan Burger

There’s no slowing down the amount of data and the number of data sources. Drinking from that informational firehose is a success for a few, an in-progress experiment for others, and an incentive to find some other way to quench analytical thirst for many. Improving the data mining, to use a term that was popular before the big data firehose was turned on, of structured data continues to be a useful endeavor for many IBM i shops. And, by the way, that doesn’t make them dinosaurs stumbling down the path of extinction, unless you get your news from press releases. …
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IBM Expands Flash Drives For Power8 Iron

November 27, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in October, IBM announced a new lineup of small form factor disk drives with 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors as well as updates for 2.5-inch flash drives that were a little bit on the beefy size. We suspect that these drives were intended to be co-launched with Power9-based servers, as well as some new, skinnier flash drives that were announced just before the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

On November 21, in announcement letter 117-108, Big Blue rolled out the new 2.5-inch flash drives that are based on 3D NAND flash memory and are rated at …
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Counting The Cost

The Top iOS Apps For IBM i

Guru: Using SELECT * With Cursors

Data Analytics And Business Intelligence: Too Little, Too Much, Too Late?

IBM Expands Flash Drives For Power8 Iron

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