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What’s New In Open Source With The Latest TRs

April 27, 2020 Alex Woodie

New technology is exciting. And when it can help you run your business more profitably or efficiently, well, it becomes very exciting. With IBM i, the open source community is arguably the biggest contributor of new technology to the platform. IT Jungle recently checked in Jesse Gorzinski, the IBM i open source architect, to hear how the open source story has improved with the recent technology refreshes.

Arguably the biggest open source-related enhancement with IBM i 7.4 TR2 and 7.3 TR8 revolves around a change in RPM, the new delivery method that IBM adopted two years ago to distribute new …
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IBM i Before And After The Pandemic

April 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now, both medically and economically, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic that has spread around the globe. The IBM i community is not immune to the effects of the stay at home provisions in many states and countries that has slowed business down to a crawl, but at the same time, many of the classic SMB companies who use the IBM i platform are available for economic stimulus. In my four decades of watching recessions, this is the first time I could ever say that sentence.

We like to keep our …
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Guru: Calling RPG Programs From Python, Part 2

April 27, 2020 Mike Larsen

In Calling RPG Programs From Python, Part 1, I showed how to call an RPG program from a Python script passing single string parameters as input and output. In the second part of this series, I’ll make the process a little more robust by passing a data structure to the RPG program.

The first part of the Python script (shown in the first piece of code below) imports the itoolkit modules and assigns them to local names. Next, I set up the first command that adds a library list entry to where the RPG object resides.
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from itoolkit import 
```
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Power Systems Hit By The Pandemic In Q1 2020

April 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Thirteen weeks ago, when IBM reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019, we told you that the Power9 platform was entering the long tail, that part of the cycle of the this generation of Power Systems machines where the revenue would dwindle off between that time and when the Power10 servers launch sometime in 2021. That tail perhaps just got a little longer and skinnier thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

IBM doesn’t talk very much about the specifics of revenues and profits for the Power Systems line any more, just like it stopped talking about the iSeries …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 17

April 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to the next issue of the IBM i PTF Guide. There are updates for Rational Developer for i Version 9.6.0.8, and for all IBM i 7.X releases. We added an OS Resave column to Technology Refresh tab, since it turns out there was a resave on IBM i 7.3 last year that impacted PTFs. We need to keep track of that.

And, once again, just a reminder: The Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4 are not going to be available until the middle of May, so the IBM i PTF Guide will not reflect …
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What’s New In Open Source With The Latest TRs

IBM i Before And After The Pandemic

Guru: Calling RPG Programs From Python, Part 2

Power Systems Hit By The Pandemic In Q1 2020

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 17

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