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Analytics Moves To The Cloud, And IBM i Data Goes With It

March 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

The cloud is changing the face of IT, much to the chagrin of IBM i traditionalists who are accustomed to having full control over their applications and data. Change is always hard, but the good news is that, with a little discipline, the cloud presents a number of new and exciting analytical options for your important IBM i data.

As a transaction processing powerhouse, the IBM i server is accustomed to hosting the most important data a business ever touches, including data about customers and their purchases. On-prem servers still run the lion’s share of online transactional processing (OLTP) workloads, …
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GiAPA Tackles IBM i Performance Bottlenecks

March 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that are frustrated with persistent performance problems may want to check out an innovative tool called GiAPA. Developed by the Danish firm iPerformance ApS, the tool has alleviated bottlenecks and saved millions of dollars for some of the biggest IBM i shops in the world. Kaare Plesner, the tool’s creator, recently shared his story with IT Jungle.

In the early 1980s, Plesner returned to Denmark after spending a year abroad working as a mainframe systems programmer. The System/38 was quickly being adopted, but Plesner noticed that it didn’t have the same level of operational tooling that …
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What’s New with RDi Version 9.6.0.7

March 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM last month unveiled Rational Developer for i (RDi) version 9.6.0.7, the first release of the popular IBM i development environment in about a year. With this release, IBM is giving developers a handful of new capabilities, including the ability to create procedures out of pieces of code, as well as the ability to test incoming parameters.

RDi is IBM’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for the IBM i platform. The product isn’t universally used across the IBM i community, and it’s not free. But many IBM i professionals swear by the graphical and modern IDE, particularly compared to older …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 11

March 11, 2020 Jenny Thomas

As if you need another reminder of the ubiquitous COVID-19, even our IBM i ecosystem is not immune to the march of this illness. Big Blue has been taking steps to protect employees and prevent the spread, and it’s been lending some computing power to the search for treatments or maybe even a vaccine. At IT Jungle, we already work remotely so we are isolated from a workplace environment, although all of us have school-age children so we aren’t exactly comfortably wrapped in a protective bubble. There are still many safe activities that you can do without fear of the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 10

March 11, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Hello fellow IBM i-ers, and a good PTF patching day to you. The new thing that hit this week is an updated microcode for Machine-Type Models: 5148-21L; 5148-22L; 8247-21L; 8247-22L; 8247-42L; 8284-21A; 8284-22A; 8286-41A; 8286-42A; 8408-44E; and 8408-E8E. This includes System Firmware Level: SV860_215, which fixes a known HIPER issue. See this link for details.

And here is the rundown by IBM i release:

PTF Groups 7.4
- Temporary Storage PTFs
PTF Groups 7.3
- Temporary Storage PTFs
PTF Groups 7.2
- Nothing here, nothing at all
PTF Groups 7.1
- Nothing here to see here, either
New (or Updated) Links this week: …
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Analytics Moves To The Cloud, And IBM i Data Goes With It

GiAPA Tackles IBM i Performance Bottlenecks

What’s New with RDi Version 9.6.0.7

Four Hundred Monitor, March 11

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 10

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