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Assessing IBM i’s Role In Digital Transformation

March 20, 2019 Alex Woodie

There comes a time in every application’s life when its owner must take a hard look at its continued viability and ask the tough question: Will the application continue to meet the business’s evolving needs, or should the whole thing be scrapped for something new? These business and technology assessments can be especially tough when the software runs on the IBM i server.

Many companies these days are looking to modernize their aging IT systems in the hopes of gaining more agility and flexibility. Whether you call it digital transformation or application modernization, the goals are often similar: Simplify the …
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Midnight Commander Comes To IBM i

March 20, 2019 Alex Woodie

IBM i professionals who work extensively with files in the IFS will be happy to hear a new software utility has been ported to the IBM i PASE environment that could save them a bunch of time. The open source software, called Midnight Commander, gives developers and administrators a handy command line experience that can help speed up tasks, especially when giving commands to large number of files stored on remote machines.

Midnight Commander was originally developed in 1994 as a file utility for UNIX, which was beginning to emerge from software labs to challenge minicomputer platforms of the day, …
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BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler

March 20, 2019 Alex Woodie

Clouds are growing quickly as IT executives look to find more flexibility and cut costs by adopting cloud and software as a service (SaaS) applications. But most enterprises aren’t getting rid of all their on-premise systems, which means somebody needs to connect those cloud and on-premise systems. One of those “somebodies” is BMC Software.

You might not remember it, but BMC Software still actively supports the IBM i environment with enterprise job scheduler, called CONTROL-M. The Houston, Texas, company has supported the IBM midrange server for years, and continues to do so with the 19th version of CONTROL-M, which the …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 20

March 20, 2019 Jenny Thomas

Did you know today, March 20, is considered the first day of spring? At least in the Northern Hemisphere it is. Also known as the spring equinox, today the length of the day is nearly equal in all parts of the world. While those of us on the Northern side of the globe start to enjoy longer, sunnier days, we can all enjoy the latest news from in and around our IBM i ecosystem. Be sure to check out our calendar at the bottom section for travel opportunities – a trip to COMMON in Southern California sounds like a great …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 11

March 20, 2019 Doug Bidwell

Enjoy the quiet while you can, there are no new cumes or groups for any release this week. However, regarding updating QMGTOOLS, here is the command that checks for and pulls down the update if necessary, then installs it:
```
QMGTOOLS/CMPVER NOPROMPT(Y)
```
You might want to think about putting this command into your scheduler for every Sunday morning.

There are no new defectives this week, but once again here is the most recent defective PTF rundown (The last defective for each release):
```
	Defect		Defective	APAR	Fixing
	Date		PTF			PTF
	--------	--------	-------	-------
7.3	03/05/19		MF65608	MA47478	MF65690 (Available!)
			MF65603
			MF65584
			
```
…
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Assessing IBM i’s Role In Digital Transformation

Midnight Commander Comes To IBM i

BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler

Four Hundred Monitor, March 20

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 11

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