TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 45 Archives

Getting Out Of The Catch-22 Of Application Transformation

August 3, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If starting up a business is hard, maintaining that business can be even more difficult. Conditions and tastes change over time, and applications that drive the business can feel the strain.

Upper management and IT organizations might have the skills to keep business applications going and make modest changes here and there, or perhaps add a new product line or two. But they usually do not have the time or people to do anything too radical, such as modernizing and transforming those applications to work in completely new ways. This is where bringing in a product and services partner comes …
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Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Comes To IBM i

August 3, 2020 Alex Woodie

Big Blue is now supporting IBM i with Ansible, the open source configuration management software developed by Red Hat. By including IBM i and AIX as a supported target in Ansible, companies that run IBM i will be able to remotely configure and manage IBM i and AIX servers using the same Ansible tools and techniques that they use to manage mainstream X86 and cloud server environments.

Ansible was created back in 2012 by Michael DeHaan, the author of the Cobbler provisioning server and co-author of the Fedora Unified Network Controller (Func) framework for remote administration. It’s been widely adopted …
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Guru: What Do People Have Against Timestamps?

August 3, 2020 Ted Holt

In my work I often see database tables and physical files with related date and time fields (columns). By related, I mean that the two fields together indicate a certain time on a certain date for a certain event. I have found these date/time pairs to be difficult to work with at times, so much so that I have come to prefer timestamps.

I wonder why database architects (I use the term loosely) specify separate date and time fields rather than a timestamp. Having done no scientific survey, I can only guess. I suspect that many tables date back …
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How IBM Stacks Power Cloud Up Against AWS And Azure

August 3, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have our own habits when it comes to thinking about bang for the buck, and it is refreshing sometimes to just think about how other companies think about it.

As part of the July 14 announcements now almost three weeks ago, IBM not only rolled out new entry Power9 machines with higher I/O bandwidth as well as utility style pricing for on-premises gear to lower capital expenditures. IBM also did a direct comparison of the Power Systems Virtual Server running on the IBM Cloud for a memory-heavy instance and then compared that to fat memory slices running on Amazon …
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If You Can’t Get To The Tape, It Doesn’t Matter If It Is Dead Or Not

August 3, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The coronavirus pandemic has made most IT shops seriously re-evaluate a number of the technologies they have to maintain, operate, backup, and protect their mission-critical applications and their data. And the companies that have IBM i systems as their main platforms are no more insulated from these issues than those who picked other platforms – although it is safe to say that they have very good tools to help with all of the above, and in many cases, these tools are arguably better than – or identical to – what is available for Windows Server, Linux, or other platforms.

Over …
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Getting Out Of The Catch-22 Of Application Transformation

Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Comes To IBM i

Guru: What Do People Have Against Timestamps?

How IBM Stacks Power Cloud Up Against AWS And Azure

If You Can’t Get To The Tape, It Doesn’t Matter If It Is Dead Or Not

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