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IBM Gives A Peek Of The Future At POWERUp 2019

May 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It would not be a COMMON, or even a POWERUp, conference without some glimpse into the future by IBM to give customers of its Power Systems line a sense of what lies ahead near the horizon. By doing so, Big Blue can provide comfort to customers that it is working on future technologies and services without revealing its hand too much to competitors.

Steve Sibley, vice president of offerings for the Cognitive Systems division, which is the part of IBM that makes and sells Power Systems iron, participated in the opening session of the POWERUp 2019 conference in Anaheim on …
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Why i Reason #87: Eschewing Performance for Its Own Sake

May 20, 2019 Alex Woodie

Make no mistake about it: IBM’s Power Systems server can flat out fly. The two biggest supercomputers on the planet right now – Summit and Sierra – are Power9 machines, although much of the computational oomph comes from Nvidia GPUs. But one thing that sets the IBM i server apart from its hardware compatriots is that it avoids the celebrity of performance.

Performance is “in” right now in the IT space (it never really went out of style). Industry standard server makers (i.e., those who make X86 servers) fight over who has the fastest systems. Public cloud platforms battle to …
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Guru: Application Tracing With The QTRC APIs

May 20, 2019 Dawn May

The IBM i operating system is extensively instrumented for diagnostic purposes to help IBM resolve issues should they arise. Instrumenting your application for diagnostics is also possible in a manner very similar to what IBM has done in the operating system.

STRTRC and the QTRC APIs

The operating system includes a trace facility called QTRC. This trace facility is a set of APIs (QTRC APIs) that allow you to instrument your application to collect trace data. This trace data can be whatever you may find helpful for debugging applications in a production environment, where using a debugger is …
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Do These Four Things to Avoid ERP Project Failure

May 20, 2019 Alex Woodie

Nobody wants to be part of an ERP project failure, but the fact is that these implementations rarely go perfectly smooth. There’s a wide spectrum of things that can go wrong in these massive projects, ranging from taking a little too long and going a smidgen over budget, to serious operational issues and even outright failure. It’s also the topic that the folks at Third Stage Consulting analyzed in a recent study.

What makes The 2019 Digital Transportation, HCM, and ERP Report different from other reports on enterprise software implementations is the data-driven approach to understanding the deployments from quantitative …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 20

May 20, 2019 Doug Bidwell

It has been a busy week out there in the PTF generation factory at IBM, with a new cume for IBM i 7.2 (following a week after the new cume for IBM i 7.3) as well as a new HIPER Group and a new Web Query Group for all three current releases (that’s IBM i 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3).

In this week’s issue, there are a few new or updated links in the Guide, as follows:
- LDAP — IBM Directory Server for IBM i (LDAP)
- SMTP — Configuring SSL Between IBM i and Remote Mail Router WITHOUT Authentication
And …
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IBM Gives A Peek Of The Future At POWERUp 2019

Why i Reason #87: Eschewing Performance for Its Own Sake

Guru: Application Tracing With The QTRC APIs

STRTRC and the QTRC APIs

Do These Four Things to Avoid ERP Project Failure

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 20

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