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Db2 For IBM i 7.3 Hits A Bad Patch

December 2, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As you know, we are among the people in the IBM i community who are always telling you to keep current on your PTF patches for the best operating system available on Power Systems. (No, we are not talking about AIX or Linux.) But every now and again, as happens with all operating systems, something gets fixed and the fix is worse than the problem it was solving.

That has apparently happened with the database patches for the Db2 for i relational database management system embedded in the IBM i 7.3 release once the Db2 Group patches from November 13 …
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Converge Technology Emerges As Reseller Powerhouse

December 2, 2019 Alex Woodie

Here’s a computer company you may not have heard about: Converge Technology Solutions. Over the past two years, the publicly traded Toronto, Canada-based company has completed numerous acquisitions of value added resellers (VARs) and private cloud providers that ply the IBM Power Systems waters – including Key Information Systems, Corus360, and Essex Technology Group, to name a few – and there’s no reason to think it will stop in 2020.

Converge Technology Solutions was founded in 2017, when it began executing its goal to acquire a number of smaller VARs and consolidate the “fragmented” reseller landscape, according to chief executive …
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Guru: End Of Year Feedback

December 2, 2019 Ted Holt

The year has flown by. Before we know it, it will be 2020. The century is flying by, too. We’ve almost consumed a fifth of it. That seems like a good excuse to see what we might glean from some of your feedback. It’s been a while. More to come next week!

Several readers wrote regarding the need to remove hard-coded values from programs. Jim brought up the problem of compile-time tables and arrays.

I find cases where data is hard coded (state names, product categories are a few examples) for tables or arrays in dozens of programs.

I wish …
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Power S812 Gets Another Reprieve, And Other Power Systems Stuff

December 2, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For whatever reason, Big Blue did not create a cut-down version of the Power9 entry server aimed at the smallest of the small businesses that run themselves on the IBM i platform. Meaning there was no Power S912 or Power S912 Mini replacement for the Power S812 and its specially priced Power S812 Mini. (The former is based on the Power9 chip, while the latter is based on the older Power8 chip, which has a lot less oomph per core.)

Back in March, IBM extended the life of the Power S812 and its Mini variant until November 29 of this …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 47

December 2, 2019 Doug Bidwell

We hope that everyone in the United States had a Happy Thanksgiving, and we are still “playing ketchup” on the PTF leftovers before that holiday, which gets us into the final stretch of 2019, rolled around. Ketchup is good on turkey, but cranberry sauce is better.

Just a reminder to everyone: IBM i 7.2 will reach end of support on April 30, 2021. That may seem like a long time from now, but you will be surprised at how fast it comes up. IBM did not say very much in its end of support announcement, which you can see here …
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Db2 For IBM i 7.3 Hits A Bad Patch

Converge Technology Emerges As Reseller Powerhouse

Guru: End Of Year Feedback

Power S812 Gets Another Reprieve, And Other Power Systems Stuff

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 47

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