TFH Volume: 28 Issue: 31 Archives

Modernize Your Apps, Leapfrog The Competition

April 23, 2018 Alex Woodie

The IBM i server has a well-deserved reputation for reliability and low cost. It also has a reputation for not being the most agile and cutting-edge platform on the market (which is also well-deserved). However, thanks to innovative modernization techniques, IBM i shops can get the benefits of innovation and perhaps leapfrog competitors who wasted resources buying middling tech along the way.

City Furniture faced this predicament recently. The South Florida chain of furniture stores wanted to extend into the showroom the same type of experience that customers first encountered while perusing the company’s website. The company figured that putting …
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Git Started With GitHub And ARCAD On IBM i

April 23, 2018 Ray Bernardi

(Sponsored Content) I have been experimenting with Git as the repository for IBM i native source like RPG, CLP, and so on. Git seems to be the source repository of choice at the moment and using it for native code seems to open up a whole new world to IBM i developers. Imagine being able to branch and merge IBM i code as easily as you do your PHP code. Imagine adopting agile methodologies for native development, builds and deployments. Imagine never having to “check-out” code and jump through those hoops. That’s what Git allows, and it’s really …
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Guru: Ready or Not! Part 2 of Big Changes in RDi V9.6, Hover and Annotations

April 23, 2018 Susan Gantner

If you’re one of those RDi users who doesn’t bother updating to the latest releases, listen up. I’ll bet that at least one of the new features in V9.6 will entice you to update. In Ready Or Not, Big Changes in RDi V9.6! Part 1, Key Behavior, I covered some RDi key behavior changes. Here I’ll explore some of the more noticeable — and to me anyway, more useful — features: enhanced hover text and new annotation support.

Hover Text

RDi has had hover text for variables and procedures for a while now. You could hover over an item …
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Power Systems Posts Growth In The First Quarter

April 23, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been waiting for four long years for the Power9 ramp to begin in earnest, and the merest hint of it happened Big Blue finished off its first quarter. That was when the “ZZ” Power9 entry systems announced back in February finally started shipping and IBM finally started booking some revenue for this new iron.

IBM did not provide much in the way of information about the Power9 system sales in the first quarter ended in March, which was only a week and a half after the ZZ systems started shipping. Jim Cavanaugh, IBM’s chief financial officer for the …
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Reader Feedback On Tesla Teases IBM i Software Vendor

April 23, 2018 Dan Burger

Hey, Dan:

Sorry for the late reply. I am traveling in Colombia this week and next to work with potential clients. When I do get back, I am more than willing to take you for a ride in the Tesla and show you how the auto pilot, self-parking, etc. works! If you are in Orange County at any point in time, we can arrange it.

I did receive lots of nice feedback on the Tesla video, but not on the blog directly. The blog was published a little after the video was first published. I did get good comments in …
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Modernize Your Apps, Leapfrog The Competition

Git Started With GitHub And ARCAD On IBM i

Guru: Ready or Not! Part 2 of Big Changes in RDi V9.6, Hover and Annotations

Hover Text

Power Systems Posts Growth In The First Quarter

Reader Feedback On Tesla Teases IBM i Software Vendor

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