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You’ve Still Got Friends In High Places

September 23, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For the past 25 years, and across a total of 78 meetings over that time, the Large User Group, or LUG as it is known, has been helping Big Blue keep the AS/400 and IBM i platform on the right track for the very large enterprises that have the system as their platform for running the mission critical applications that are at the heart of the business. The LUG has put forward thousands of requirements to IBM – both things that the organization wants IBM to do and other things that it wants IBM to stop doing – and …
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Third Party Maintenance An Option As Power7 Goes EOL

September 23, 2019 Alex Woodie

Time is running out for IBM i shops with hardware support contracts for Power7 and Power7+ servers, which officially reach end of life (EOL) a week from today. For organizations that aren’t ready to migrate to newer Power8 or Power9 machines, there are third-party maintenance options that will let them keep running Power7 machines without abandoning the safety net.

The September 30 EOL for Power7 hardware support not come as a surprise, as IBM has been talking about the event for two years. Big Blue has given its Power Systems customers plenty of time to upgrade from older systems, …
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Guru: Parsing JSON With DATA-INTO And A Twist

September 23, 2019 Mike Larsen

One of my recent projects required me to parse JSON returned from a web service. On the surface this sounded like a pretty easy task, but I quickly ran into a challenge. The JSON being retuned didn’t have a top-level element, and since I wanted to load the JSON into a data structure, my program couldn’t handle it.

After some searching, I found that some of my options included changing the code in the parser (JSONPARSE) or using a totally different parser altogether. While both of these are viable options, I decided to take a slightly different route.

Before I …
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As I See It: Restless

September 23, 2019 Victor Rozek

The more entangled I become with technology the more restless I feel when I’m away from it. The nervous system gets accustomed to the stimulation, the steady drip of dopamine from the little validations, the comforting illusion of wide-ranging intimacy, the ease of attachment without exertion. The Internet is fast food for lazy, twitchy synapses. And I’ve become conditioned to crave it.

Like an alcoholic past due for a drink, I look around for my digital bottle.

It’s on the coffee table. A swipe of a finger and I have access to a distorted world of dramatic headlines, lurid images, …
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Relieving The Anxiety About IBM i Performance

September 23, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Starting a business is an exciting thing, and one of the most fundamental activities any of us can engage in as members of a capitalist economy. My adage has always been: Those who can work, must; those who can employ, must as well. I have faced my share of those moments, starting a business, with excitement and trepidation and hope. And now, our good friend and colleague, Doug Mewmaw, has hung out his shingle, which says Peak System Performance on it.

Mewmaw, as you well know from reading The Four Hundred, is an expert on performance analysis and …
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You’ve Still Got Friends In High Places

Third Party Maintenance An Option As Power7 Goes EOL

Guru: Parsing JSON With DATA-INTO And A Twist

As I See It: Restless

Relieving The Anxiety About IBM i Performance

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