TFH Volume: 28 Issue: 20 Archives

Peeking Outside Of The IBM i Bubble

March 14, 2018 Alex Woodie

It can be tempting to continue doing what you’ve done before. After all, there’s safety and security in familiarity. But when it comes to planning your future and reaching your goals as a technology professional, you should not limit your opportunities, whether it’s learning a new technology or even being open to jobs in different states.

That’s the message from Patrick Staudacher, an IBM i recruiter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who has witnessed the evolution of the midrange platform and the professionals who make it run since he started in the unique trade 20 years ago. For many years, the job …
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A Code Inspector For RPG

March 14, 2018 Alex Woodie

Programmers who are tasked with maintaining applications often spend 50 percent or more of their time just figuring out how programs work, taking away valuable time they could spend on other tasks. Now a company called i400hub.com is promoting a new tool called RPG/Code Inspector that helps programmers reclaim that lost time.

RPG/Code Inspector is a program comprehension tool created by longtime IBM i developer Steve Kilner that’s designed to help programmers discover what’s going on in their RPG applications quickly, without going line-by-line through the source code. The software automates several tasks for programmers, including:
- Analyzing and cross-referencing how
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Budget Relief For IBM i Monitoring Software

March 14, 2018 Dan Burger

Keeping it simple isn’t always so simple. But creating efficiency at a low cost without adding layers of complexity and extra features (often unused) is a product attribute that gets a lot of attention. A good example of this is Kisco Information Systems’ event monitoring software: iEventMonitor.

Kisco just released Release 3 of iEventMonitor, a tool that monitors prominent IBM i job and message queues plus storage and CPU. It sends out alerts when things go astray. Because of its simplicity the price of iEventMonitor R3 is just $495 for a single LPAR or $795 for an unlimited number of …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 14

March 14, 2018 Dan Burger

What does your IT budget say about your organization? Are you a comfortable fit in the status quo or are you budgeting for the future knowing that status quo and a one-dollar bill won’t even get you a cup of coffee?

And if your vision of the IT future includes open source, start gathering information by reading articles linked to Monitor. This week we have advice on setting up an open source project office and a comparison of the top two containers for transporting applications between systems. IBM’s Watson CTO also talks about AI ethics and responsibility.

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 10

March 14, 2018 Doug Bidwell

The good times keep on rolling with the Spectre Meltdown (SM) updates. There are new HIPER and Security Groups this week, and most of the required PTFs are on one group or the other, except for one in each release. If you need to tackle it this week, the recommendation is to apply both the HIPER and Security groups, plus the one additional fix, for each release.

Depending on your system and its proc/mem configuration, it will take from 15 minutes to 30 minutes longer to apply the Tech Refresh.

MQ for IBM i also has a new Group level …
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Peeking Outside Of The IBM i Bubble

A Code Inspector For RPG

Budget Relief For IBM i Monitoring Software

Four Hundred Monitor, March 14

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 10

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