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Stacking Up IBM i And Windows In The Clouds

August 5, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

So how does the IBM Cloud running IBM i stack up against the main competition in the midrange, which is on premises Windows Server plus SQL Server from Microsoft as well as that same stack running in the Amazon Web Services cloud? We can’t give you a definitive answer, but we can give you some food for thought as you ponder how good of a deal Big Blue is giving customers who want to put IBM i on the cloud.

Making comparisons between on premises iron and cloudy infrastructure is difficult and problematic. The good thing about a public cloud …
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Midrange Dynamics Speeds Table Updates In Db2 Mirror Clusters

August 5, 2019 Alex Woodie

With the launch of Db2 Mirror with IBM i 7.4 in June, IBM heralded the age of continuous availability on the midrange platform, bringing IBM i up to par with Windows and Linux platforms. However, while the new software keeps production data in perfect synch, it’s not so great at keeping up with changes to underlying database tables. That’s an area that Midrange Dynamics is addressing with its change management software.

With Db2 Mirror, IBM has essentially extended a single-server database implementation into a clustered database with two active nodes. As soon as a piece of data is created, updated, …
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Guru: Passing Parameters To Python

August 5, 2019 Mike Larsen

Python scripts offer great benefits to developers, whether used standalone or in conjunction with RPG programs. As I’ve been exploring Python and recently I had a need to execute a Python script from an RPG program. In addition to executing the script, I also wanted to pass it parameters.

One of the benefits of passing parameters is to give us the ability to soft-code programs or scripts. Soft-coding makes programs more flexible and re-usable, and helps to reduce maintenance.

To illustrate how to do this, I’ve coded a very simple RPG program and an even simpler Python script. I’ll start …
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Four Hundred Monitor, August 5

August 5, 2019 Jenny Thomas

The temperatures are still rising outside but summer is winding down, especially for those of us with school age kids who know their carefree days will soon be replaced with reading, writing, and arithmetic. In the IT world, this is the time of year when we start to get our second wind. The fall conference season is just around the corner, and solution providers are looking to do a last push, and we are ramping up to make sure we keep you in the loop for all of it. In the meantime, enjoy the last few weeks for summer and …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 30

August 5, 2019 Doug Bidwell

It is definitely summer in IBM i PTF Land. There are a few things to report this week, but not the deluge it has been in prior weeks. There are updates to the Backup and Recovery Group for IBM i 7.4, 7.3 and 7.2, and the SAP 7.1 Final update. There is also a new MGTOOLS for all of the current releases.

As for tips, August 1 was National Water Balloon Day, and we did not know there was such a thing. But it is the first Friday every August. Go figure. We will be going through new and updated …
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Stacking Up IBM i And Windows In The Clouds

Midrange Dynamics Speeds Table Updates In Db2 Mirror Clusters

Guru: Passing Parameters To Python

Four Hundred Monitor, August 5

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 30

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