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Drilling Down Into The Power E980

August 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

On August 7, IBM announced the two machines that are based on the “Cumulus” scale-up versions of the Power9 processors – the Power E950 midrange box that scales up to four sockets and the Power E980 big iron machine that scales up to 16 sockets. The IBM i platform is not available on the Power E950, so IBM i customers who need more than a two-socket Power9 machine to support their workloads have to make a jump to a single-node implementation of the Power E980.

This is the same situation that customers faced during the Power8 era, so it is …
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In Support Of IBM i Technical Competence

August 20, 2018 Alex Woodie

The lack of IBM i skills in the midrange community has been debated at great length, in this publication and other venues. Whether there’s a critical shortage of IBM i skills or not, nobody will argue with the fact that it’s important to keep one’s technical abilities up-to-date, which is the focus of a new educational outfit calling itself IBM i Competence that’s holding its first official event this week in Scandinavia.

IBM i Competence was founded by Power Systems Champion Torbjörn Appehl earlier this year with the goal of providing targeted educational sessions on specific IBM i topics for …
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Guru: Make It Easy On Someone Else

August 20, 2018 Ted Holt

“Make it easy on yourself,” warbled Dionne Warwick when I was just a pup. That may be good advice when severing a romantic relationship, but not when programming computers. Instead of making it easy on ourselves, we who develop and support applications need to make it easy on the people we serve.

Recently I worked on a project in which users had to enter time values into various Web pages. The original specifications stated that users would enter time values in a format we commonly use in the United States: two-digit hour, a colon, two-digit minute, a space, …
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GDPR Compliance On IBM i A Work In Progress, Survey Finds

August 20, 2018 Alex Woodie

About 50 percent of IBM i shops say they’re compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to a recent survey by SoftLanding Systems. However, about a quarter of survey respondents say they have a way to go before they’re confident in their GDPR preparedness, the IBM i vendor says.

GDPR, which went into effect on May 25, made big changes to laws governing how companies and other organizations are allowed to collect, process, and store data about European Union citizens. While not every American firm is required to adhere to GDPR, those that do business with …
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Address Those Fears And Move Your IBM i Workloads To The Cloud

August 20, 2018 Clayton Weise

You know the facts. Managing IBM i installations takes specialized skills and knowledge. In fact, many companies keep IBM i experts on staff, even though the amount of IBM i work they have may be sporadic. At the same time, the workforce capable of managing IBM i installations has been shrinking.

For these reasons, and many others, moving IBM i workloads to a cloud environment managed by specialized talent has become an attractive option. The aggravation savings alone can make it worthwhile, and that’s before adding in the other benefits of the cloud, like cost savings, security, and scalability.

Yet, …
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Drilling Down Into The Power E980

In Support Of IBM i Technical Competence

Guru: Make It Easy On Someone Else

GDPR Compliance On IBM i A Work In Progress, Survey Finds

Address Those Fears And Move Your IBM i Workloads To The Cloud

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