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How SAP HANA Helps Keep IBM i Strong

February 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It has been a good 12 months for Power Systems in the cloud. Not only did Big Blue launch entry Power8 and high-end Power8 machines on its IBM Cloud supporting IBM i and AIX and promise to get high-end Power9 iron on its cloud as well, but Google, Skytap, and Microsoft also launched Power9 iron on their respective public cloud and offered to run Linux, AIX, and IBM i on these machines. Last week, it was the turn for enterprise software giant SAP, which is adding high-end Power E980 systems to its own cloud services so customers can run HANA …
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A Lifeline For CIOs, The Toughest Job In IT

February 24, 2020 Alex Woodie

Let’s hear it for chief information officers, who have the toughest jobs in IT. If you’re good enough and lucky enough to succeed with your initiatives, you get to keep your job another year. But if the plans fall through, then you’re out on the curb. It’s a lonely job, but thanks to the CIO Summit event that Alan Seiden puts on with System i Developer, the CIOs at IBM i shops at least have a lifeline for support.

Research shows that CIOs have among the shortest tenures of any position in the C-suite. The management consulting firm Korn Ferry …
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Guru: Alternate SQL Row-Selection Criteria Revisited

February 24, 2020 Ted Holt

At the RPG & DB2 Summit last October, I chanced to overhear Rob Bestgen of IBM telling Paul Tuohy of System i Developer about a practice that he and others in IBM Lab Services had seen, a practice which they found horrifying. “Oh, no!” I thought. “I’ve written about that for itjungle.com!” Are you ready to be horrified?

Rob was telling Paul that they have seen SQL queries in which portions of the WHERE clause are enabled or disabled through the use of switches. I did not invent this technique — I realized more than a few years ago that …
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As I See It: Digitally Enhanced Loneliness

February 24, 2020 Victor Rozek

A friend of mine was dating a woman he met on social media who became frustrated because their relationship wasn’t “deep” enough. It eventually floundered which was unfortunate because outside of his primal fear of commitment, he is basically a nice guy with extensive interests and bountiful skills. I suggested, in his defense, he explain to her that although he may not be deep, given his wide-ranging pursuits he could be thought of as shallow but wide. This apparently didn’t assuage her concerns since they are no longer together, but it is indicative of two things: The disposable nature of …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 7

February 24, 2020 Doug Bidwell

In this week’s issue of the IBM i PTF Guide, we have a lot of little things and thankfully not too many big and scary things to deal with. There is not much else to say about it, so let’s just get on with it then, with the rundown by release:

PTF Groups 7.4
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
PTF Groups 7.3
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
PTF Groups 7.2
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
PTF Groups 7.1
- None
New (or Updated) Links this week:
- IMGCLG: Image Catalog and Virtual Media – Maximum Capacities and Limitations
- IMGCLG: CRTIMGCLG Specifying IFS Path in /QNTC Fails
- QNTC:
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How SAP HANA Helps Keep IBM i Strong

A Lifeline For CIOs, The Toughest Job In IT

Guru: Alternate SQL Row-Selection Criteria Revisited

As I See It: Digitally Enhanced Loneliness

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 7

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