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Getting Hyper And Converged With IBM i

May 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The hallmark of the System/38 and its progeny, the AS/400, iSeries, System i, and IBM i platforms, is that these machines came fully integrated with all of the operating system, database, management, and development tools necessary to run a modern business. Integrated did not mean that these pieces were all sold as a single bundle, mind you, but they snapped together with good fit and finish and allowed companies to not have to become masters of the system code and could therefore be craftsman for the application code that actually ran the business.

The AS/400 really set the pace for …
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What’s Cooking With IBM i On GitHub?

May 14, 2018 Alex Woodie

The IBM i community’s relationship with open source started off as a slow embrace, but it’s turning into something more serious. A central player in this love affair is GitHub, which is not only the world’s largest repository for open source code, but increasingly a vehicle for delivering open innovation on the IBM i platform.

GitHub is a privately held company that was founded 10 years ago in San Francisco as Logical Awesome LLC with a simple goal: provide a hosting service and collaboration framework for software development projects managed with the Git open source version control system.

The company …
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Guru: Odds And Ends

May 14, 2018 Ted Holt

Little things can make a big difference. Today I am pleased to present a few short tips that may make a difference for you. I hope you get something useful here. If you have short tips that you would like to share with your fellow readers, please email them to me and I’ll see what I can do. Have a wonderful day!

Hey, Ted:

I just read your article More Date And Time Conversions Using SQL. Just as aside, the scalar functions Decimal/Dec, Integer, and BigInt can convert times, dates and timestamps directly into a numeric representation in the …
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Boston Power9s Set To Debut

May 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power9 systems aimed at data ingest and data analytics, code-named “Boston” after the band from Beantown that features what is arguably the tightest album side in classic rock music, are now out and will be available by the end of the month. These are Linux-only machines, and like some of the prior LC models (short for Linux Cluster, not Low Cost as I keep thinking it means) based on Power8 processors, these were created by Supermicro and are resold by IBM as well as being sold by Supermicro in its SuperServer line.

IBM is, of course, Supermicro’s biggest customer …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 19

May 14, 2018 Doug Bidwell

We like to keep you on your toes here at the IBM i PTF Guide, and this week we are popping up at the tail end of the Monday edition of The Four Hundred instead of the usual Wednesday edition. This will happen from time to time, as the publishing schedule for the newsletter changes, so don’t get nervous. The IBM i PTF Guide and The Four Hundred carry on, as always.

So, without further ado, let’s get to the patches. First up, V7R3 has a new DB2 Group – with a whopping 94 PTFs added. (Whew! Somebody’s …
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Getting Hyper And Converged With IBM i

What’s Cooking With IBM i On GitHub?

Guru: Odds And Ends

Boston Power9s Set To Debut

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 19

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