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POWERUp 2020 Pushed Online By Coronavirus Continuing Spread

August 5, 2020 Alex Woodie

Any hope that the spread of coronavirus would die down enough for COMMON to hold its POWERUp conference has been successfully smothered, as the user group last week was forced to cancel its annual meeting a second time in four months. If there’s any consolation to the COVID-19 chaos, it’s that online and virtual events are getting better and better – in the IT sector generally, as well as in our little neck of the i wood.

There will be no cake served during the 60th anniversary celebration that COMMON had planned for its annual meeting, POWERUp 2020, which was …
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HCL Certifies Domino 11 on IBM i/Power

August 5, 2020 Alex Woodie

Domino 11 officially shipped in late 2019 by HCL Technologies, the company selected by IBM to continue development of the Domino family of products in 2017. Last month, the company announced that Domino 11 running on IBM i has been certified on select Power9 servers. Among the new capabilities that it brings is the new low-code Volt environment.

The Domino family of products, including Notes, Sametime, Connections, and Traveler, has been through quite a bit over the past few years. After nearly a decade of neglect by IBM, HCL Tech made the development of Domino 10 a priority for the …
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HelpSystems Makes A Move In Data Classification

August 5, 2020 Alex Woodie

Before you can secure your data, you need to know what data you have and whether it’s sensitive. That’s the logic that drove the acquisitions of a pair of data classification software companies by HelpSystems recently.

On June 25, HelpSystems’ announced the acquisitions of two firms — Titus and Boldon James — both of which offer similar capabilities in the field of data classification. HelpSystems plans to integrate their data classification offerings into products used by its large IBM i installed base.

Titus, which is based in Ottawa, Canada, says it provides solutions to “some of the largest financial …
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Four Hundred Monitor, August 5

August 5, 2020 Jenny Thomas

The beat goes on, as Sonny and Cher would harmonize, and while many might say that means time keeps marching forward, no matter what, time sure does seem to be moving awfully slow these days. Many aspects of our lives continue to be in a holding pattern as we wait out the pandemic, but in the IT world business continues and many of you haven’t missed a beat, although you have likely had to do a bit of pivoting. Our own Timothy Prickett Morgan found some reasons for optimism when he reviewed the latest Power Systems numbers, which is something …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 31

August 5, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Forget the coronavirus pandemic, we have been crazy busy here at DLB Associates. So this week, of necessity, we will be short and sweet. Like Shirley Temple. Or barbeque ribs. Or real Italian espresso. Or memories from early childhood – well, some of the time.

In PTF Land this week, there appears to be a new re-spin of the licensed internal code (LIC) for IBM 7.2, Q version to be precise. Here’s the PTF rundown by release:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- SAP Support Required PTF List for IBM i
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- SAP Support
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POWERUp 2020 Pushed Online By Coronavirus Continuing Spread

HCL Certifies Domino 11 on IBM i/Power

HelpSystems Makes A Move In Data Classification

Four Hundred Monitor, August 5

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 31

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