TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 9 Archives

Settling In With IBM i For The Long Haul

February 11, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If nothing else, the IBM i platform has exhibited extraordinary longevity. One might even say legendary longevity, if you want to take its history all the way back to the System/3 minicomputer from 1969. This is the real starting point in the AS/400 family tree and this is when Big Blue, for very sound legal and technical and marketing reasons, decided to fork its products to address the unique needs of large enterprises (with the System/360 mainframe and its follow-ons) and small and medium businesses (starting with the System/3 and moving on through the System/34, System/32, System/38, and System/36 in …
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Domino And Notes 10 Finally Come To IBM i

February 11, 2019 Alex Woodie

They say good things come to those who wait. The IBM i community has waited over 10 years for a new release of Domino and Notes, and they were rewarded last week when IBM announced version 10 is now available on IBM i.

Domino and Notes 10 is the first major release of the server component of the business collaboration platform since Domino 8.5 was released way back in 2008 (version 9 was a minor release). The future of the platform was up in the air for a while, and many people who have dedicated a chunk of their careers …
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Guru: Open Access To The Rescue

February 11, 2019 Jon Paris

Recently I came upon a couple of questions on internet lists asking for an easy method to create flat files in the IFS. Not CSV files, but rather simple text files where individual data items are in fixed character positions. Various somewhat convoluted solutions were offered to the requestors, but to me this problem shouted “Open Access!”

So, I set about quickly building an Open Access (OA) handler to perform the task. I find OA really useful for this kind of job because, once the handler is written, creating these kinds of files in the future become a trivial task, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 11

February 11, 2019 Jenny Thomas

The cloud is booming for IBM, which has recently said it has closed $3 billion in cloud deals already this year. The latest deal is covered in the first Top Story below, and Big Blue has got to be big happy to see the its cloud investments paying off. IBM also had more news on the AI front, revealing plans for a new AI research hub in New York. Now is a good time for you to start thinking about investing in yourself. There are plenty of good opportunities listed in our Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings section …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 6

February 11, 2019 Doug Bidwell

In this week’s issue, take note of the Defective PTFs for your release (see details below) with an issue of Ethernet frames being dropped running on IBM i 7.2 and IBM i 7.3.

MF65215 – SAL Cannot Search From or To 20 – This is new in the Hardware and related PTFs group:
- V7R3 SF99875
- V7R2 SF99775
- V7R1 SF99705
If you’re migrating from Power8 to Power9, you are gonna want to get the latest HIPER group. There is a HIPER fix for:
- 7.3 MF65605
- 7.2 MF65606
This fixes a subsystem startup failure after migration. You are gonna want it!

New …
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Settling In With IBM i For The Long Haul

Domino And Notes 10 Finally Come To IBM i

Guru: Open Access To The Rescue

Four Hundred Monitor, February 11

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 6

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