TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 12 Archives

Power Systems: Driving More Revenue Than Initially Thought

February 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Any model takes refinement, whether it is something a human spreadsheet jockey puts together or it is a distributed neural network that is trained with machine learning techniques to do some kind of identification and manipulation of data. So it is with the Power Systems revenue model I put together a month ago in the wake of IBM reporting its financial results for the fourth quarter.

I did not really mean to get into it at the time. I was just going to assemble a short table of the constant currency growth rates of the Power Systems business and …
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IBM i DevOps Gets Simpler On Skytap Cloud

February 25, 2019 Alex Woodie

IBM i professionals who yearn for the administrative simplicity of Amazon Web Services will soon be rewarded when Skytap’s IBM i cloud becomes generally available next quarter. Among the IBM partners Skytap is tapping for the roll-out is Rocket Software, which is integrating the Aldon suite of lifecycle management tools to simplify DevOps in a potentially ground-breaking new way.

Rocket Software is in the process of certifying its Aldon Lifecyle Manager for IBM i (LMi) software to run on Skytap‘s public cloud offering for IBM i. Late last year, Skytap, which has Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as a major investor …
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Guru: Find The Needle In The Haystack With Watches

February 25, 2019 Dawn May

IBM i does a great job of logging information using messages. Messages are sent to message queues, the history log, as well as the job log. IBM i job logs can be very useful for identifying and resolving application issues. No other system has such a great logging facility for reviewing what happened in a job.

What if you need to debug an intermittent application problem? What if the symptom is a message logged to the job log? And what if there are hundreds of jobs where this message could be sent? There are a variety of ways you can …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 25

February 25, 2019 Jenny Thomas

At IT Jungle, our business is writing. We write about the latest news and trends. We offer analysis, opinions, and tech tips. We work hard every day to be a reliable resource for everything you need or want to know as it relates to the IBM i. Part of being a good writer is being a good listener. So we were all ears when we heard IBM Champions Liam Allan and Josh Hall were starting up their own podcast where they can chat about whatever is on their minds regarding the IBM i and its ecosystem. The link for details …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 8

February 25, 2019 Doug Bidwell

Right off the bat, there are new High Impact and Pervasive (HIPER) PTFs for IBM i 7.1, IBM 7.2., and IBM i 7.3, which are the three currently support releases of the operating system. (Well, IBM i 7.1 is on extended support, not full support, so that is like having 2.5 or 2.75 releases, depending on how you want to do that math.) So, by all means, get hyper about HIPERs and get a-moving.

As far as new links in the accompanying sheet for the IBM i PTF Guide goes, there was nothing of note this week. But check back …
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Power Systems: Driving More Revenue Than Initially Thought

IBM i DevOps Gets Simpler On Skytap Cloud

Guru: Find The Needle In The Haystack With Watches

Four Hundred Monitor, February 25

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 8

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