TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 11 Archives

Curbstone Acquired by Volaris, Merged with InTempo

February 10, 2021 Alex Woodie

Volaris Group, a subsidiary of Constellation Software, has acquired payment processing software provider Curbstone Corp. and merged it with InTempo Software, the company behind the IBM i-based RentalMan software developed by Wynne Systems. The payment software is being integrated with RentalMan.

Ira Chandler wrote the first commercial credit card software for the AS/400 back in 1993 for the company ROI, but struck out on his own in 2002, when he founded Curbstone. The Ball Ground, Georgia company continued to develop and sell credit card processing software for the iSeries and IBM i servers, acquiring hundreds of customers over the …
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Big Blue Finally Brings IBM i To Its Own Public Cloud

February 18, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, that took quite a long time. After what seems like eons of nudging and cajoling and pushing, IBM is making the IBM i operating system and its integrated database management system, as well as the application development tools and other systems software, available on its self-branded IBM Cloud public cloud.

Big Blue previewed its plans to bring both IBM i and AIX to the IBM Cloud at its annual Think conference in Las Vegas, on scale out machines aimed at small and medium businesses as well as to customers who want to run clusters of machines, and on scale …
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Building A Positive Culture of Learning On IBM i

February 18, 2019 Alex Woodie

How do you motivate IBM i programmers to keep learning new technologies, long after they have mastered the RPG skills they use the most? There’s no simple answer to that question, which was the topic of a recent conversation IT Jungle had with PHP on IBM i guru Alan Seiden and Heidi Schmidt, the head of PKS Software.

IBM i shops face several interrelated problems when it comes to their personnel, which traditionally is one of the biggest line items in the IT budget. These challenges include: the aging of IBM i professionals; the retirements of baby boomer-aged personnel; the …
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Guru: Change XML Elements in SQL

February 18, 2019 Paul Tuohy

Over the last few years, it has become more common to store XML or JSON in a column in a table. Whereas SQL provides all the necessary functions to construct/deconstruct XML or JSON from/to relational data, it does not provide an easy means to change the contents of an element. In this article, I am going to demonstrate a technique for changing the contents of an XML element using an SQL stored procedure.

Just to provide some background, I was recently working on a project where DB2 XML Extender functionality was being replaced with the standard XML functions. The project …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 18

February 18, 2019 Jenny Thomas

I’m sure you’ve been the recipient of a backward compliment (or maybe even inadvertently given one before). The IBM i has definitely had its share of unintentional insults, as recently as our top story below where our beloved platform was dubbed “likely the safest and most powerful server platform you’ve never heard of.” Awkward for those of us already in the know, but the intention here was good and we’ll definitely take the props where we can get them. In fact, IBM had a lot of good news to share this week, which we have wrangled and condensed for you …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 7

February 18, 2019 Doug Bidwell

As you will see in the most recent IBM i PTF Guide, there was not a lot going on this week. It looks like somebody at IBM might be taking some time off. That’s the way it goes some weeks, and we call it a win if there is not a lot of patching that is going on. That said, there are probably a bunch of you that might be a little bit behind in applying PTFs – this kind of thing happens. And if you ever get truly behind and need some help sorting it all out, don’t …
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Curbstone Acquired by Volaris, Merged with InTempo

Big Blue Finally Brings IBM i To Its Own Public Cloud

Building A Positive Culture of Learning On IBM i

Guru: Change XML Elements in SQL

Four Hundred Monitor, February 18

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 7

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