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The Next Performance of Dawn May

September 26, 2018 Alex Woodie

Growing up on a farm in southern Minnesota, Dawn May had dreams of moving to the big city. But life has a funny way of changing the best laid plans, and May ended up spending decades working at IBM’s lab in nearby Rochester. After retiring from Big Blue earlier this year, May is set to start the next phase of her career as an independent consultant.

May moved out of Rochester in 2011, but even then, she never expected to stay in southern Minnesota for so long. “As a farm girl, I always wanted to move away and become a …
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Trimble Gives IBM i Trucking App Some Love

September 26, 2018 Alex Woodie

Trucking companies that rely on the Innovative IES application from Trimble have a series of new enhancements to work with, including new options for paying drivers, a redesigned risk management app, and a new routing module that gives drivers turn-by-turn directions.

It’s been more than six years since Trimble acquired TMW Systems in a $335-million deal that netted it a handful of transportation management system (TMS) suites, including the TL2000 and IES dispatching applications for IBM i and TMWSuite for Windows, among several other products.

Since then, the publicly traded company, which develops all manner of geospatial products for positioning, …
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Infor Makes Mobile, Cloud, IoT, and AI Announcements — But Nothing for IBM i

September 26, 2018 Alex Woodie

Infor made several product announcements at its annual user conference this week, including the introduction of a new mobile client program, several cloud announcements, and the GA date for the AI-based assistant it announced last year. But Day One of Inforum 2018 didn’t feature any new or enhanced software for IBM i, where about 18,000 Infor customers continue to run their enterprise software.

Do you like to “seamlessly glide between applications”? If so, then you’re liable to just love the new Infor Go mobile client, which Infor announced yesterday at the Inforum 2018 conference in Washington D.C.

Infor says its …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 26

September 26, 2018 Jenny Thomas

IBM has been putting a lot of eggs in the Blockchain basket, and it looks like its investments are starting to hatch. Blockchain is starting to take hold in the U.S. with one of the nation’s largest retailers making it a business requirement for its suppliers. But Blockchain isn’t the only investment that is paying off for IBM. Watson is also branching out into farms, factories, and offices around the globe. Now is the time to start planning for those Fall conferences so be sure to take a look at our Calendar below for many opportunities for networking and continuing …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 38

September 26, 2018 Doug Bidwell

Hello good people of IBM i Land. There are HIPER and Security PTFs on all three releases this week: That’s IBM i 7.3, 7.2, and 7.1. So dig in and have a gander at the spreadsheet and figure out what to do.

Here are the important links this week:
- Ethernet How to Temporarily Enable or Disable Large Send Offload (LSO) on the IBM i
- Security All Security Bulletins for IBM i
- Security Apache on IBM i Security Updates
- Security Java on IBM i security updates
- Security Vulnerabilities for OpenSSL on IBM i
- Security Vulnerabilities for OpenSSH on IBM i
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The Next Performance of Dawn May

Trimble Gives IBM i Trucking App Some Love

Infor Makes Mobile, Cloud, IoT, and AI Announcements — But Nothing for IBM i

Four Hundred Monitor, September 26

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 38

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