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High Schools: The New Recruiting Grounds for IT Jobs

November 28, 2018 Alex Woodie

Companies that are having trouble filling entry-level IT jobs due to the tight job market and low unemployment rate may want to check out another resource for finding and attracting workers: their local high school.

Recruitment, retention, and training of new talent are always hot topics during the roundtable discussions that take place at the CIO Summit. “It’s always a very fruitful and productive topic to see what CIOs are doing,” says Alan Seiden, who has been running the bi-annual event for IBM i tech executives for the past year-and-a-half.

So when one of the CIOs at last month’s …
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Syncsort Snags EView for Log Data Hooks

November 28, 2018 Alex Woodie

Syncsort bolstered its capability to harvest log data originating on IBM i and mainframes yesterday with the acquisition of EView Technology, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company that builds big iron connectors for mainstream systems management tools.

EView Technology didn’t occupy a prominent seat in the IBM i auditorium, but it did carve out its own little niche as a purveyor of connectivity tools used by systems administrators at some of the biggest IBM i and mainframe shops in the country, such a Ford, Kraft, TD Bank, Discount Tire, Waste Management, HSBC, FedEx, and REI.

The company’s claim to fame was …
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MB Software Gets A Handle On Remote SQL Jobs

November 28, 2018 Alex Woodie

System administrators who get frustrated with the inability to see which SQL jobs coming in through ODBC are causing problems on their IBM i server may be interested in a product called Work with Active SQL (WRKACTSQL) from MB Software and Consulting, which recently announced the tool will be free through the end of the year.

SQL is just about as close to a universal language for business as you can get. While there are other (i.e. “native”) methods of fetching data from Db2 for i, nearly three-quarters of IBM i developers report using SQL, making it the number two …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 28

November 28, 2018 Jenny Thomas

We often talk about the future of the IBM i and the need to draw new talent into our ecosystem. The Girls Who Code foundation recognizes the jobs created in America today require new skills and is looking to help open the door to opportunities for women in the tech community. One such girl growing up in a rural small town is profiled in a short YouTube video. You can find the link in our Redbooks, White Papers, Blogs, and Other Resources section below. And, as always, you can find links to news from the past week in the links …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Numbers 46 And 47

November 28, 2018 Doug Bidwell

It is catchup week (is that ketchup or catsup?) here at the IBM i PTF Guide, with the hiatus that The Four Hundred took during the Thanksgiving holiday in America. So today you get two for the price of one.

In Number 46 of the Guide, we see that there is a new version of Access Client Solutions, Build 1.1.8.1, as of November 12! Fun stuff!

There were also HIPERs and Security groups for all three current IBM i releases – yep, that means V7R1, too, as well as V7R2 and V7R3.

New Links that week: Nagios system …
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High Schools: The New Recruiting Grounds for IT Jobs

Syncsort Snags EView for Log Data Hooks

MB Software Gets A Handle On Remote SQL Jobs

Four Hundred Monitor, November 28

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Numbers 46 And 47

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