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  • More Power7 And Power8 Features To Bite The Rust

    October 30, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The Power Systems catalog just keeps getting skinnier as the Power9 systems launch in early 2018 keeps getting closer. Ironically, as IBM pulls the plug on older Power Systems machines and their features, it is a good indication that Big Blue really is preparing the way for Power9. It is also a way to get customers who have no intention of spending on Power9 iron to buy something on their older gear before the features go away.

    I saw a new abbreviation in announcement letter 917-177, which came out on October 24, and that was LTB – short for …

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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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  • Advice For The Power Systems Shop That Has To Buy Now

    October 23, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Having to buy a new computer as one generation is ending and the new one is not quite yet beginning puts users in a tough spot. Without knowing the feeds and speeds of the system, you can’t compare what you might be giving up if you buy now. And without knowing the price of the new machine, and the current price of its predecessor that you might buy, you can’t tell how hard you have to negotiate if you buy the current model instead of the one that is coming down the pike in a few months.

    IT budgets tend …

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  • Vision Adds Security To HA Management Service

    October 23, 2017 Alex Woodie

    Fresh off its acquisition of Enforcive, Vision Solutions last week unveiled a new managed resilience service that adds professional IBM i security services to its managed offering for high availability and disaster recovery.

    As part of its managed HA and DR services, Vision Solutions (which has been merged with Syncsort) works with customers to ensure that their MIMIX, iTera, and OMS/ODS environments are shipshape and read to be called into duty in the event of an unexpected outage or natural disaster.

    Now Vision is adding the same type of options to its managed security service and selling it alongside …

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  • Guru: Wow! I Could Have Had Long Column Names! – Take 2

    October 23, 2017 Ted Holt

    In 1990, three computer science professors named Gorla, Benander, and Benander wrote about debugging effort in COBOL programs. Among their claims was that debugging is easier if variable names were between 10 and 16 characters long. The original native data definition facilities allowed variable names up to 10 characters, but nowadays we can define alias names that Gorla, Benander, and Benander would be proud of.

    It is common in many DB2 for i shops to have physical files with field names of six characters or less. This practice dates to predecessor systems, such as the System/36, for which the …

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  • A Skills Shortage Solution Alert

    October 23, 2017 Dan Burger

    Employee development doesn’t get the credit it deserves when it comes to talent acquisition. Putting the right people in the right place and giving them the right tools is not a new concept. Many of the top programmers work for companies where this concept has been in place for years. They are homegrown. It follows a pattern: Hire programmers with useful skill sets and if that doesn’t include modern RPG, train them.

    The steep green-screen learning curve and natural tendency for young developers to resist the old fixed format RPG isn’t really a factor with modern free format RPG and …

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