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IBM i Can Thrive Under New CEO, Arvind Krishna

April 8, 2020 Alex Woodie

Arvind Krishna took the reins as CEO of IBM on Monday, marking the changing of the guard at one of this country’s foremost tech firms. But this is no ordinary switch, as Krishna must immediately navigate IBM through an extraordinary crisis that combines technological and social upheaval along with a new business climate. If given the proper attention, the IBM i platform has the chance to shine.

A new IBM CEO is a momentous event in and of itself. Since Thomas Watson founded the company in 1914, there have been only nine other CEOs at the Armonk, New York, company …
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imPower Technologies Embraces Switch to Online Learning

April 8, 2020 Alex Woodie

Traditional schools around the world are in turmoil as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown and the sudden switch to online learning. For Jim Buck and his new IBM i training venture, imPower Technologies, the sudden popularity of virtual education validates the work he and his colleagues have done to build an Internet-based IBM i education operation.

“We’ve been preparing for this unknowingly for years now,” imPower Technologies Chief Operating Officer Michelle Lyons says. “Had we known, we couldn’t have prepared better.”

Buck and Lyons started building imPower Technologies nearly three years ago to provide an online vehicle to deliver …
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Exploring ALL400s In Tableau

April 8, 2020 Alex Woodie

Those who love maps and the IBM i platform will get a kick out John Rockwell’s latest trick: an aerial view of the IBM i installed base through the lens of Tableau’s interactive BI software. And even if you have no particular predilection for geography, the ability to drill down into details and statistics of the IBM i populace is worth a look anyway.

Rockwell, of course, is the steward of ALL400s, the list of IBM i shops that Rockwell started assembling back in 2005. The list contains the names of nearly 48,700 organizations that currently run or previously …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 8

April 8, 2020 Jenny Thomas

The lockdown continues and while it may seem like everything has come to a screeching halt, the world is still spinning and businesses are carrying on as best as they can. Take IBM, for instance. The plan for introducing us to its new CEO has been in the works for some time, and pandemic or not, it came time for Arvind Krishna to take the reins. And on April 6, he did exactly that, and started the day with a letter, which you can see at the first link in the Top Stories From Outside The Jungle section below. Before …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 14

April 8, 2020 Doug Bidwell

We hope you are well out there in IBM iLand during the Great Infection. These are tough times, but we can get through it together. The PTF updates are a little skimpy this week, and that is just as well with people having plenty of other things on their mind.

And here is the rundown by IBM i release:

PTF Groups 7.4
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.2
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.1
- Nothing here to see here
New (or Updated) Links this week:
- ACS: Missing IBM i ACS 5250 Menu Bar
- TLS: How to Enable TLS for the
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IBM i Can Thrive Under New CEO, Arvind Krishna

imPower Technologies Embraces Switch to Online Learning

Exploring ALL400s In Tableau

Four Hundred Monitor, April 8

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 14

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