TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 21 Archives

Sending Your IT Department To The Teledoctor For A Checkup

March 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Quite a few of us in the world are going to have experience with telemedicine in the coming weeks, if we have not had it already, and so barriers to providing medical service are going to come down. The same kind of remote health experience is available for IT departments from a relatively new company called Chordia Consulting, which has created a remote IT healthcheck that now has a variant tuned specifically for IBM i shops and their special characteristics.

And in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Chordia’s co-founders, both ex-IBMer’s with experience in the IBM midrange, are …
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The IBM i Community Adapts To The New Normal

March 30, 2020 Alex Woodie and Timothy Prickett Morgan

As we enter the third week of the unprecedented coronavirus lockdown that has shut down large swaths of our country, IBM i shops are adapting to the “new normal” along with everybody else. For essential employees in certain industries, that means working in an uncertain and potentially hazardous environment, while for the rest of us, it means telecommuting from home.

If you work in finance or insurance along the two coasts, chances are good your headquarters has been closed down and your colleagues sent home to work remotely from laptops, smartphones, and PCs. But if your company makes or moves …
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Guru: Calling RPG Programs From Python, Part 1

March 30, 2020 Mike Larsen

In a prior article, I showed how to pass parameters to a Python script and execute the script from an RPG program. Based on feedback and my own curiosity, I wanted to see how I could pass parameters to an RPG program and call it from Python. After a bit of research, I found the Python interface itoolkit.

itoolkit is an open source project provided by IBM as an interface to the XMLSERVICE toolkit, which allows us to call RPG programs, service programs, CL programs, and PASE Shell commands. itoolkit can be installed using an SSH terminal with …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 30

March 30, 2020 Jenny Thomas

There’s no hiding from the global pandemic so we’re facing COVID-19 head on just like many of the leaders around our IBM i ecosystem who have stepped up to protect their employees and assist other companies scrambling to adapt and survive. To that end, we have added a new section to Monitor called “COVID-19 Response Updates” where you can look every week to get the very latest news and solutions related to the coronavirus. Many of the vendors in our community are offering solutions free or at a reduced cost to assist others at this time of need so be …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 13

March 30, 2020 Doug Bidwell

We hope everybody is keeping safe during the coronavirus outbreak. The PTFs are a-rolling again, and that means the IBM i PTF Guide is updated to keep you up to speed.

The first new thing is that there is a Direct URL for Access to Digital Certificate Manager. For example: http://9.5.123.234:2001/QIBM/ICSS/Cert/Admin/qycucm1.ndm/main0.

There are updates to the primary IBM i releases that still get patched, as follows:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- Java
- Backup Recovery Solutions
- WebSphere App Server V8.5
- Content Manager OnDemand for i
- SAP Support Required PTF List
PTF Groups 7.3:
- Java
- Backup Recovery Solutions
- WebSphere App Server V8.5
- Content
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Sending Your IT Department To The Teledoctor For A Checkup

The IBM i Community Adapts To The New Normal

Guru: Calling RPG Programs From Python, Part 1

Four Hundred Monitor, March 30

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 13

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