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Big Blue Moves Up Technology Refreshes For IBM i

August 6, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We knew that IBM was getting ready to flesh out the Power9 server lineup with the “Cumulus” processors for scale-up systems, used in machines that span from four to 16 sockets in a single system image, and we told you all about that last week for an announcement that is expected to come to pass on August 7. This is fitting with all of the rumors we heard at the beginning of the year, which expected the big iron to come in the third quarter.

Normally, we expect Technology Refresh updates for the current versions and releases of IBM i …
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CIO Summit Brings Execs Up To Speed On IBM i

August 6, 2018 Alex Woodie

The IBM i server is mystery to many. Not only does it run on abnormal hardware – at least compared to “standards-based” X86 computers – but its programming languages, user interfaces, and administrative tasks can seem otherworldly to the uninitiated. For Alan Seiden, the organizer of an IBM i-focused executive get-together known as the CIO Summit, dispelling the platform’s mystery represents something of a personal challenge.

The next CIO Summit is in about two months, and Seiden, who’s a well-known PHP on IBM i expert as well as the founder and principle of the Seiden Group, is looking forward …
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Guru: Beefing Up The Job Log, Take Two

August 6, 2018 Ted Holt

In Tracing Routines Explain Why The Computer Did What It Did, I wrote about the usefulness of writing information about program execution to determine why a program run gave certain results. Today I want to present a simpler method than the tracing routines. The tracing routines are not obsolete, but they are powerful and I have found them at times to be overkill.

Just a word about terminology. Since I wrote that article five and a half years ago, my reading has led me to a different understanding of the terms tracing and logging. I’ve since decided that …
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As I See It: Just Bag IT

August 6, 2018 Victor Rozek

Only two days in, my stay in Lassen Volcanic National Park was cut short by vanishing stars. Evidently the “new normal” knows no boundaries and has no respect for vacationers. It seems that every year now, there are fires, terrible fires, consuming the West. In Redding, California, 50 miles west of the park, 966 homes and six people were lost. More are missing. Over 90,000 acres of drought-stressed brush remain ablaze. As of this writing, 38,000 residents may have to be evacuated as swirling winds are spreading flames in all directions.

But in the distant mountains I knew nothing of …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 30

August 6, 2018 Doug Bidwell

It is summer, and it is the usual quiet time in PTF Land. This week, there are new PTF groups for HIPERs and HTTP server! There is good stuff in there. . . .

The SAP required PTF lists were updated on July 20 for IBM i releases 7.2 and 7.3, on the July 16 they were updated for IBM i 7.1. If you are running SAP, you might check out their links on the links page.

There are, as you know from reading The Four Hundred, new enterprise servers coming, and they are very powerful machines! And there …
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Big Blue Moves Up Technology Refreshes For IBM i

CIO Summit Brings Execs Up To Speed On IBM i

Guru: Beefing Up The Job Log, Take Two

As I See It: Just Bag IT

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 30

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