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Inside IBM’s Power S924 Power9 Entry System

February 26, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is hard to say for sure, but the two most popular Power9 machines that IBM will sell in the current and coming years will probably be the single-socket Power S914 or the two-socket Power S924. A lot depends on performance, which we don’t have metrics for yet, but one of these machines is going to be the volume leader – unless they are neck and neck.

We flipped a coin to decide which machine to cover first, and heads was the Power S914 and tails was the Power S924, and the quarter showed the American eagle and not George …
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Being Agile With IBM i In A Changing Business Climate

February 26, 2018 Dan Burger

Business conditions are changing, and C-level executives are troubled by a lack of IT responsiveness to changing business conditions.

CIOs are feeling the pressure to step up. At the bi-annual CIO Summit, hosted by Seiden Group’s Alan Seiden, IT executives discuss agile development practices as one tool to help their IBM i development teams deliver better business solutions in situations where IT is breaking new technical ground or user requirements are uncertain.

“IBM i environments of the past were unified with RPG and Db2 and with few choices for user interface. Developers would copy an older program and …
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Guru: Ready Or Not, Big Changes in RDi V9.6! Part 1, Key Behavior

February 26, 2018 Susan Gantner

Version 9.6 of RDi has many new features. If you’ve upgraded your RDi, you have undoubtedly noticed some of the enhancements, because most of the new features are enabled by default. Just in case you’re not a huge fan of some of those features, most can also be disabled to make things work as before if you know where to look.

In this series, we’ll take a look at some of the new features and how to enable and/or disable them. In this first part, we’ll study two new key behaviors and how to control them.

Many of the enhancements …
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Mad Dog 21/21: About Face

February 26, 2018 Hesh Wiener

There was a time when a typeface was made of metal and its characters, called glyphs, physically transferred ink to paper. Today, a typeface is a set of symbols that may be used to transfer ink to paper or to paint text on a screen or to inform a heads-up display. Beginning in November 2017, IBM put its corporate clout behind a signature family of typefaces called Plex. Plex will also be a signature for Ginny Rometty and IBM’s paean to Johannes Gutenberg.

Gutenberg, born about 1400, developed technology that enabled the industrial production of printed matter, including …
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GDPR Deadline Looms for IBM i Shops

February 26, 2018 Alex Woodie

Have you seen the website with the Grim Reaper counting down the days when support for IBM i 7.1 will end? There are 63 days left, if you’re keeping track. But a scant 25 days after IBM stops supporting IBM i 7.1 on April 30, time will be up for another important IT milestone: compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The GDPR is a major new data privacy and protection law that goes into effect on May 25. It was passed two years ago by the European Commission with the goal of standardizing the wide assortment of laws …
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Inside IBM’s Power S924 Power9 Entry System

Being Agile With IBM i In A Changing Business Climate

Guru: Ready Or Not, Big Changes in RDi V9.6! Part 1, Key Behavior

Mad Dog 21/21: About Face

GDPR Deadline Looms for IBM i Shops

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