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Eradani Bridges The Gap Between Legacy And Open Source

July 8, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In this publication, legacy is not a dirty word or even remotely pejorative. Rather, “legacy” is just a shorthand way of delineating between applications that encapsulate decades of the evolution of a business and the transactions it processes, and all of the other new stuff that this business is also doing and perhaps coding with newer tools and programming languages.

A new company, called Eradani, has been founded by some experts in both the IBM i world and the open source world with the express purpose of building a technical bridge so these two different cultures can see a …
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Skytap Bullish On Its Hourly Billing In New IBM i Cloud

July 8, 2019 Alex Woodie

After a successful tech preview, Skytap last month announced that its public cloud for IBM i is now open for business. Customers can rent time on Skytap’s IBM i cloud, starting at $200 per month per vCPU or $.50 per hour per vCPU. While the monthly option will work well for production workloads, it’s the hourly billing option that’s turning heads, especially among IBM i developers looking to adopt agile and DevOps practices.

Skytap isn’t the only cloud option for IBM i customers. There are numerous private cloud offerings launched over the past few years, largely as IBM business partners, …
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Guru: One Way To Deal With Two Null Formats

July 8, 2019 Ted Holt

Hey, Ted:

We are building a new system and want to use modern programming and database techniques. I have had quite a time trying to get nulls to act right. It gets confusing fast because RPG handles them differently than the way embedded SQL does. When using SQL for I/O, how do we handle the two null formats?

— Brian

There are several ways to go about the “problem” of nulls. Let me give you one simple method, but keep in mind that it’s not the only way.

First, let’s create a table and put some data into it.
```
create 
```
…
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As I See It: Paper Or Plastic

July 8, 2019 Victor Rozek

Technology managers often grapple with a thorny employment dilemma: Do they hire for specialization or suppleness; specific or general knowledge; narrow but deep, or broad but shallow. It’s the quandary of expert versus generalist, and it’s like deciding whether you want to buy a hot car with no utility, or a utility vehicle with no hot.

Some of the ambivalence arises from the fact that both are contextually useful and necessary. A handyman by definition must be a generalist; but you probably don’t want a handyman performing your bypass surgery.

Yet according to Jerry Useem, things are shifting noticeably in …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 26

July 8, 2019 Doug Bidwell

All of us at IT Jungle like to support our local user groups, and being from Southern California, the IBM i PTF Guide has a soft spot in its heart for the annual OCEAN technical conference. This is just a reminder that if you are in our neck of the woods, the OCEAN TechCon19 IBM i Technical Conference – check out CODE LEARN20 – runs from July 25 through 27.

Turning back to the IBM i PTF Guide, there is a new High Availability Group for 7.4, and updates for MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0 for IBM i …
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Eradani Bridges The Gap Between Legacy And Open Source

Skytap Bullish On Its Hourly Billing In New IBM i Cloud

Guru: One Way To Deal With Two Null Formats

As I See It: Paper Or Plastic

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 26

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