TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 10 Archives

The State Of The IBM i Installed Base, Part 1

February 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is the time of the year that people assess where we are at so we can figure out where we are going. So we think it is appropriate to ponder the current state of the IBM i business.

There isn’t just historical precedent for pondering the state of things this time of year; the pondering, in a certain way, drives history. The end of the prior year is mostly gone from memory and focus shifts toward fulfilling the promise of the current year. It is human nature to mark time this way, driven in part by the seasonal nature …
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Thoroughly Modern: Resizing Application Fields Presents Big Challenges

February 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It sounds so simple. You need to change the size of one or more fields in one or more applications. How hard can that be? Quite time consuming and labor intensive, as it turns out, if you don’t do it right. To get a sense of the issues that companies face as they tweak the fields in their applications, we sat down with Ray Everhart, a product manager at Fresche Solutions, who knows a thing or two about this issue after many decades in the field.

Timothy Prickett Morgan: Can you tell us a little bit about your experience in …
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Guru: ACS 1.1.8.3 Content Assist Includes Prompt For SQL!

February 10, 2020 Birgitta Hauser

STRSQL, the green-screen facility for executing SQL Statements, has had its days. Nevertheless, many SQL users still prefer this legacy interface over the Access Client Solutions (ACS) Run SQL Scripts facility. Others use third-party tools to execute SQL statements. The common excuse has been that the Run SQL Script facility does not include a way to prompt SQL commands, tables, and columns. In ACS version 1.1.8.3, Content Assist includes prompting for SQL statements.

Before ACS Version 1.1.8.3, no prompting was available within the Run SQL Scripts Facility. To access tables, views or materialized query tables (MQTs), we needed to know …
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NGS Breaks Scalability Barrier With OLAP Client

February 10, 2020 Alex Woodie

New Generation Software is putting the finishing touches on an overhaul of its OLAP client, called QPort SmartView, that it says removes limitations on the amount of data IBM i shops can analyze. The Windows program gives users the ease of use and flexibility of Excel on the front-end, but utilizes the scalability and OLAP processing heft of IBM i on the backend to analyze substantially larger data volumes.

Typically, New Generation Software plays it down the middle when it comes to business intelligence and analytics on the IBM i platform. On the one hand, the company’s predominantly midsize clientele …
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We Need Your Help Gathering Some Intelligence

February 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the absence of good information about the customer based out of Big Blue, a number of prominent companies in the vendor community have stepped up to support surveys of the IBM i customer base that give us a sense of what is going on in the base. We have an enlightened self-interest – several of them, in fact – in seeing a large number of participants from across the IBM i base – customers large and small, across many countries, with all make, model, and vintage of machines – take part in such surveys. No question about it.

And …
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The State Of The IBM i Installed Base, Part 1

Thoroughly Modern: Resizing Application Fields Presents Big Challenges

Guru: ACS 1.1.8.3 Content Assist Includes Prompt For SQL!

NGS Breaks Scalability Barrier With OLAP Client

We Need Your Help Gathering Some Intelligence

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