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2017: An IBM i Year In Review

December 13, 2017 Alex Woodie

It’s mid-December, which means it’s time to look back upon 2017 and reminisce on the biggest stories of the year for IBM i and the overall midrange community. From a pair of Technology Refreshes and the scheduled demise of IBM i 7.1 to acquisitions and security breaches, there was a lot to take in.

It all started off innocently enough in…

January

IBM has had a good run of not changing the name of the platform. In fact, it hadn’t changed the name since 2008, giving it a line of uninterrupted starts that even Giants quarterback Eli Manning could appreciate. …
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UCG Technologies Takes Off To The Great White North

December 13, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For those of you who have never tried to build a business and employ people before, it is a hell of a lot harder to do than it may look. But it is an invaluable experience, and a way of life that some people cannot do without. Just ask Jim Kandrac, one of the most vocal and ebullient members of the IBM i community, and he will tell you all about it.

We had a chat with Kandrac last week just as the company was celebrating its 30th anniversary in business, which is a long time for any IT company …
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ARCAD Procures Funding To Fuel Expansion

December 13, 2017 Dan Burger

The financial incentives instigating investors to back companies that create software and provide services to the IBM i community continue to raise eyebrows and elicit surprise among those unfamiliar with the innovation taking place in the so-called legacy netherworld.

Another glimpse of this appeared last week when ARCAD Software announced it received a € 2.5 million ($2.95 million in US currency) investment from the European equity firm Alto Invest. ARCAD develops and markets DevOps and modernization solutions for platforms that include IBM i, Unix, Linux, Windows and z/OS. This is the first external funding ARCAD has received during its …
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Four Hundred Monitor, December 13

December 13, 2017 Dan Burger

Finding programmers skilled in open source technologies isn’t difficult. And neither is teaching them modern RPG. A good programmer can be comfortable and productive in multiple environments given the right set of circumstances. Real world examples exist and this article is written by someone who is living it.

Another example of skills evolution is happening with Db2 for i. The value of a modern database is widely overlooked, but the benefits are numerous. IBM’s Mike Cain explains how database knowledge can pay off. Insights into Power9 and AI applications plus the costs of bad data are also in Monitor this …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 49

December 13, 2017 Doug Bidwell

There is not much happening this week in IBM i PTF Land, and the holiday season is obviously in nearly full swing. But I was able to glean the following newsworthy items:

Recommended Fixes – Temporary Disk Space

Record locking API isn’t cleaning up after itself.
- V7R3 SI65944
- V7R2 SI65942
- V7R1 SI65943
Recommended Fixes – HMC code Upgrades

We have added the following link to the “Links” worksheet in the guide – great stuff is here! See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021840.

And, finally, happy holidays, and we will see you in the new year….

As usual, we have included an archive of …
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2017: An IBM i Year In Review

January

UCG Technologies Takes Off To The Great White North

ARCAD Procures Funding To Fuel Expansion

Four Hundred Monitor, December 13

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 49

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