TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 27 Archives

Deep Dive On IBM i 7.4 And IBM i 7.3 TR6 Hardware Limits

April 29, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As everybody knows by now, IBM has announced both the Technology Refresh 6 for IBM i 7.3 and the shiny new IBM i 7.4 release. We did a brief overview of these operating system releases in last Wednesday’s issue, concurrent with the launch and ahead of their respective May 10 and June 21 general availability dates, to put them into perspective. Now, it is time to get into the nuts and bolts and bits and bytes of what Big Blue has announced.

Rather than try to do it all in one story or possibly two, we are breaking it …
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Club Alan: Seiden Signs Liam, Corners Youth Market

April 29, 2019 Alex Woodie

The Seiden Group solidified its position in the futures market this month by signing the young British-born IBM i phenom Liam Allan to a long-term employment contact that will see him involved in training and open source development work, among other activities.

Allan’s signing with Seiden Group is a reunion of sorts for Allan and Alan Seiden, the company’s founder and CEO. Allan credits Seiden with roping him into the IBM i gig via Club Seiden, an intersectionalist group devoted to exploring emerging digital and social connections involving the IBM i operating system and the open source ecosystem.

“The …
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Guru: Creating Excel Spreadsheets With Python

April 29, 2019 Mike Larsen

Over the past several years, I’ve seen a growing demand to provide business data in Excel. Some shops are content to receive their data in .csv format and then manually apply formatting to make it presentable. Wouldn’t it be better if we could provide a spreadsheet that is already formatted?

In my opinion, the answer is yes. Most recently, I’ve been using PHP to accomplish this task. PHP works great for me, but I always like to have different options from which to choose. This is important to me because some shops may not have PHP installed. Based on that …
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Mad Dog 21/21: In Memory of Hesh Wiener

April 29, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

“Stop complaining. The only thing worse than writing so many obituaries is having one written about you. Let me assure you.”

If my friend and mentor, Hesh Wiener, were alive today, that is what he would say to me with a laugh. And of course, as always, Hesh, who had no intention of leaving this world quite yet, would have been right.

We have suffered our share of losses in the IBM midrange in recent years, and here at The Four Hundred, the publication that Hesh created in the wake of the inaugural June 21, 1988, AS/400 announcements. Hesh …
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Power Systems Refreshes Flash Drives, Promises NVM-Express For IBM i

April 29, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There was a time after Mark Olsen retired a few years back when the presentations concerning Power Systems hardware as it related to the IBM i platform were not as detailed as we were used to. But a new team of people are running the show now, and they are getting better and that helps us all understand what Big Blue is doing on the hardware front even better.

As part of the April 23 announcements, IBM added a bunch of new storage and networking peripherals to its Power8 and Power9 system lineup. You can read all about it in …
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Deep Dive On IBM i 7.4 And IBM i 7.3 TR6 Hardware Limits

Club Alan: Seiden Signs Liam, Corners Youth Market

Guru: Creating Excel Spreadsheets With Python

Mad Dog 21/21: In Memory of Hesh Wiener

Power Systems Refreshes Flash Drives, Promises NVM-Express For IBM i

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