TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 21 Archives

What Vintage Is Your IBM i Wine?

April 1, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It has been a long time since we have seen a new version of the IBM i operating system, but if history is any guide, we are on the cusp of yet another release of the platform. And thanks to the way Big Blue handles updates to the software, through its Technology Refresh incremental upgrade process, this will not be as dramatic an event as updating the operating system, middleware, database, and application development tools in the stack has been throughout most of the history of the IBM midrange.

But there are plenty of OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i shops …
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The Search For Intelligent Life Apparently Is Over

April 1, 2019 Orwell

Extraterrestrials from the planet Voltak in the constellation Dithmaar today shared conclusions about their recently completed mission to IS Manager Gerald Hugh’s well-run computer department located on the second floor of Statewide Tire & Rim in beautiful East Plymouth, South Dakota.

“Thank you, Earthlings, for allowing us to examine your planet for the past two years, and in particular, we’d like to give a big shout out to Gerald Hugh’s for letting us monitor his extremely well-run information services department,” tweeted Commander Rahnzo Maxdruv of the 17th Expeditionary Fleet of Voltak Imperial Starship Command from his work account, @alienzforlife.

“When …
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Guru: IBM i Save File Compression Options

April 1, 2019 Michael Sansoterra

As I finished populating some test tables with a large volume of data on a small and transient IBM i partition in the cloud, I thought life was good. But my countenance fell as I realized the tables plus OS hogged over 70 percent of the disk space. I wondered how to get all the data into a single save file for safe keeping.

The buzzer in my mind was loud and clear: it ain’t gonna work, you don’t have enough room. As I loathed the thought of using multiple save files to save my test data, I remembered that …
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Power Systems Not Getting 3D XPoint Memory Anytime Soon

April 1, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A lot of people don’t remember this, but Intel was founded in 1968 as a maker of semiconductor main memory for mainframes, and in the early 1970s the company commanded almost as much market share in main memory as it does in datacenter compute today. But as competitors in Japan did a better job ramping up new technologies, by the early 1980s Intel’s market share dropped to somewhere between 2 percent and 3 percent, and it had no way to easily or affordably get back into the game, and by 1984 it had to wind down its memory operations. …
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Traditional IT Spending Bests Cloud Infrastructure, For Now

April 1, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Drawing the line between what is cloudy and what is not at this point in the history of the information technology business is not a trivial thing. But that’s why the analysts at IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and others get paid the big bucks to dice and slice the market so we can get a better of what is going on.

To hear the big public cloud providers talk, you would think that everything that companies buy to install on premises or rent from their bit barns is cloudy – which means that it is virtualized, available with metered pricing to …
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What Vintage Is Your IBM i Wine?

The Search For Intelligent Life Apparently Is Over

Guru: IBM i Save File Compression Options

Power Systems Not Getting 3D XPoint Memory Anytime Soon

Traditional IT Spending Bests Cloud Infrastructure, For Now

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