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The Battle Of The Single-Core IBM i Machines

July 20, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, IBM announced a revamped lineup of entry Power9 systems, including a new single-core variant of the Power S922 server aimed at IBM i shops that will replace the long-running Power S812 and the Power S914 for IBM i customers with modest compute performance and storage requirements. The announcement of the single-core Power S922 comes just as the stay of execution for the Power S812 will be running out on August 31.

In the issue last week, we told you that we didn’t have a lot of the details on the pricing of the new single-core Power …
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ERP Deployments Shift Cloudward, Even On IBM i

July 20, 2020 Alex Woodie

Applications of all sorts are moving to the cloud, including the critical ERP systems that businesses rely on to automate processes. That’s been the trend for some time in the industry as a whole, but it’s also having an impact on the IBM i community, which is becoming cloudier by the month.

While on-prem deployments of IBM i still dominate, the cloud portion is growing. Nearly one-quarter of IBM i shops have IBM i resources running in the cloud, according to HelpSystems’ 2020 IBM i Marketplace Study, including 6 percent who are cloud-only and 17 percent who run …
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Guru: Dynamic Arrays Come To RPG

July 20, 2020 Jon Paris

Some 12 months ago, when the 7.4 release was announced, I wrote the Guru Tip “7.4 Brings New RPG Goodies” describing the features of 7.4 that were also available on 7.3. I said at the time that I would return later to discuss the 7.4-only features. So now that a significant number of shops have access to 7.4 that time has arrived.

Dynamic arrays are the answer to the perennial programmer question: “Just how big do I need to make this array?” In my experience it doesn’t actually matter how big you make it, at some point down the road …
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Unperspective: I Am Weird, You Are Weird

July 20, 2020 Trevor Perry

People are weird. All of them. You are weird. I am weird.

I believe in this so much that in my past I started a company with P.A.W. in its name. The fact is, it’s true, but not quite how you think.

The Webster’s Dictionary definition of “weird” is short, including “of strange or extraordinary character: odd, fantastic.” Odd is defined as “differing markedly from the usual, ordinary, or accepted” and “not regular, expected, or planned.” Fantastic is defined as “so extreme as to challenge belief.”

Taking a different look at weird, it’s easy to see where we have been …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 28

July 20, 2020 Doug Bidwell

The action never stops here at the IBM i PTF Guide. Which is probably a good thing because if a platform isn’t being constantly updated, expanded, tweaked, and fixed, then it probably is not going to live for much longer in this fast-changing world. No one can say that about the IBM i platform. Nope.

So for you security buffs, check this out. Security Bulletin: BIND for IBM i is affected by CVE-2020-8616 and CVE-2020-8617, which has an insanely long link buried here. The link above provides details, but the gist of it is also here by release: …
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The Battle Of The Single-Core IBM i Machines

ERP Deployments Shift Cloudward, Even On IBM i

Guru: Dynamic Arrays Come To RPG

Unperspective: I Am Weird, You Are Weird

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 28

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