TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 4 Archives

The IBM i Base Did Indeed Move On Up

January 21, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This time last year, in the wake of the 2018 IBM i Marketplace Survey report put together by HelpSystems and based on survey data gathered in the fall of 2017, we said that the IBM i base was ready to move on up to newer iron. And guess what? Based on the results of the survey done in October 2018 and released in the 2019 IBM i Marketplace Survey unveiled last week, it looks like a pretty healthy portion of the base did in fact get off older iron and move to shiny new Power9 iron. In some cases …
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Infor Raises $1.5 Billion, Teases An IPO

January 21, 2019 Alex Woodie

When will Infor go public? For years, the company has hinted that an initial public offering (IPO) of stock is in its future, but has remained mum on the exact timing. Last week, as part of an announcement regarding a $1.5 billion investment by private equity firms, the ERP software company finally came clean and solidified its public stock offering plans to the world.

The IPO will come in 2019, the New York company says. Or maybe 2020. It all depends, according to Infor, on “market conditions.”

With stocks last week, major indices are still flirting with correction territory, and …
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Guru: Speed Up Command-Line PHP

January 21, 2019 Alan Seiden

While PHP runs quickly via the Apache web server, command-line PHP scripts (run from PASE directly or via CL or RPG) have a lag on start-up. In this article, I show how to speed up PHP when called from the command line (known as PHP-CLI).

Why does PHP-CLI (command line PHP) have a slow start-up? While several reasons are often given, I’ve found the culprit to be the loading of PHP extensions that are enabled by php.ini and other configuration files of Zend Server. Examples of extensions are ibm_db2, simplexml, and Zend’s proprietary components.

Within a normal web server environment, …
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As I See It: The Challenge To Selfhood

January 21, 2019 Victor Rozek

By almost any measure, it was one of the biggest news stories in last hundred years. And I’ll bet you missed it. In fairness, almost everyone did. After all, there was nothing entertaining or scandalous about it, so it failed to meet the current criteria of news worthiness. Plus, it dealt with concepts not easily collapsed into sound bites. It was loaded with strange, off-putting words like Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, and alien goings-on such as Endosymbiosis, and Molecular Phylogenetics.

Too complex for Twitter, too impersonal for Facebook. So, almost everyone missed it – at least those of us outside the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 2

January 21, 2019 Doug Bidwell

I feel a bit like I am having a small flashback to the Year 2000 software bug, but the trip is a little different but still involves the warping of time. As you see in IBM support bulletin MA47217, the Service Action Log within the Hardware Service Manager can’t seem to get over 2018. Literally. If you try to put either “2019” or “2020” in the From or To year fields, it flies up into its own black hole. This doesn’t appear to be affecting any other areas of Service Tools, or logging – so far.

Here’s the precise …
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The IBM i Base Did Indeed Move On Up

Infor Raises $1.5 Billion, Teases An IPO

Guru: Speed Up Command-Line PHP

As I See It: The Challenge To Selfhood

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 2

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