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More Transparency Needed For Open Source Running on IBM i

July 25, 2018 Alex Woodie

Open source may be the future of IBM i. It certainly seems that way at the moment. But if open source is going to soar to new heights on the platform, it will need better integration with the existing processes in place to monitor and manage the platform.

That’s the opinion of JK Grafe, the CEO of Quad Nova Group, a Jacksonville, Florida-based IBM i consultancy that has offices up the Eastern Seaboard. By Grafe’s own admission, open source is a great thing for the platform. But the difficulty in seeing what’s actually going on with open source workloads …
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IBM i Gets An Influx Of Machine Learning Tooling

July 25, 2018 Alex Woodie

Thanks to the new RPM and Yum open source software delivery methods unleased by IBM earlier this year, IBM i shops can now run the latest in Python-based machine learning tools, including NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn.

Interest in using Python to build machine learning models has exploded in recent years, and we’re now at the point where Python is considered to be the predominant language for doing data science, followed closely by R, which is taught more in academic settings.

While the capability to train or run a machine learning model isn’t generally the number one requirement for organizations …
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IBM i Slated to Support Java 11

July 25, 2018 Alex Woodie

Don’t look now, but Java is in the midst of a major upheaval that will not change not only how the programming language is used by the wider world, but also how it’s used on the IBM i platform. For those running Java on the midrange platform, the forthcoming release of Java 11 is the one to watch.

While Java has (sort of) been open source since Sun Microsystems released the object-oriented language into the world 27 years ago, it took much more solid steps toward being a true open source project last year when Oracle announced plans to release …
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Four Hundred Monitor, July 25

July 25, 2018 Dan Burger

We hope you’re not getting tired of hearing about blockchain because a lot of companies are pinning their hopes to this burgeoning technology. IBM is one of many global IT leaders pouring talent and money into mastering blockchain with an eye on big payoffs in the future. This week we also take a look at what companies and individual employees can be doing to improve their futures, including ways to certify your skills. And there’s a new battle brewing between the U.S. and China as the race to exascale computing heats up.

Top Stories From Outside The Jungle

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IBM i PTF Guide, Number 20, Volume 29

July 25, 2018 Doug Bidwell

There’s not much to report this week in PTF Land. Even HIPERs, which should come out every two weeks, are overdue. But you can still check out the usual archive of the IBM i PTF Guide below to help you work through the PTFs in chronological order.

This week wasn’t a total loss. I attended the Ocean Tech Conference, in Costa Mesa, California, where techno-nerds and old friends had great fun and learned a lot, too! Briefly, the new ACS tool is a work of art! Creating service programs is easier than ever, and the new PDM add-on for RDi …
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More Transparency Needed For Open Source Running on IBM i

IBM i Gets An Influx Of Machine Learning Tooling

IBM i Slated to Support Java 11

Four Hundred Monitor, July 25

Top Stories From Outside The Jungle

IBM i PTF Guide, Number 20, Volume 29

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