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The Power S812 Gets Yet Another Stay Of Execution

July 6, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power S812 entry server, which is based on the Power8 processor and which has no analog in the Power9-based Power Systems lineup, has received yet another reprieve from being removed from the Big Blue product catalog. It is a wonder why IBM doesn’t just say it will sell this Lazarus machine indefinitely and get it over with, to be honest.

The Power S812, particularly the “Mini” variant that IBM announced on Valentine’s Day in 2017, are the skinniest – in terms of processing and memory capacity – of the Power Systems line that supports the IBM i operating …
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Tapping The Sky For Disaster Recovery

July 6, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The killer app for IBM i in the cloud, at least for the next several years, is very likely going to be disaster recovery and high availability. Not just because it is so much less expensive to provide these vital infrastructure services on the cloud than it is on premises, but because so many people still need DR and HA but cannot afford it.

The cloud is changing that, and a partnership between Skytap, the upstart provider of IBM i server instances in the cloud, and Maxava, the now established but once upstart provider of HA and DR software …
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Guru: RDi V9.6, Part 9 – RDi Helps with Refactoring Code into Procedures

July 6, 2020 Susan Gantner

I’m guessing that you have some RPG code in your shop that’s desperately in need of some refactoring. I have yet to visit an RPG one that wasn’t in that position. If by chance you don’t know what I mean by “refactoring” or why you may need it, I highly recommend that you read Ted Holt’s excellent series of Guru tips on refactoring RPG. I’ve included links to those tips in the Related Stories section below.

I was inspired to go back and review the entire series after I attended Ted’s session Refactoring RPG: What, Why & How at an …
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Wire IoT Up To IBM i With Node-RED

July 6, 2020 Alex Woodie

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings a new way to think about our digital world. From sensors on a manufacturing line to Twitter messages from the other side of the world, the IoT brings it all together. And with Node-RED, a low-code framework that is available on IBM i, wiring up these data flows into useful applications is surprisingly easy.

Created by IBM, Node-RED is a Node.JS-based framework for developing event-driven data applications, or “flows,” that deliver a data payload in the form of the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data standard, from a source to a destination. Node-RED flows …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 26

July 6, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Well, we made it through half of 2020, and that is something of a miracle. Let’s hope the second half is not so dramatic. The odds are not favoring that at the moment, but hope springs eternal and that is how we have made it through the past 15,000 years of pre-history to today, if you think about it. It’s helpful to take the long view at critical times.

As far as PTFs go, there is a new HIPER for the Virtual I/O Server, or VIOS, which we know all you IBM i shops love. The HIPER is IJ25390, and …
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The Power S812 Gets Yet Another Stay Of Execution

Tapping The Sky For Disaster Recovery

Guru: RDi V9.6, Part 9 – RDi Helps with Refactoring Code into Procedures

Wire IoT Up To IBM i With Node-RED

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 26

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