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IBM’s Possible Designs For Power10 Systems

August 31, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the past two weeks, we have been telling you about the future Power10 processor that will eventually be able to support the IBM i platform as well as AIX, Big Blue’s flavor of Unix, and Linux, the open source operating system that is commercially exemplified by IBM’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. The leap in performance with Power10 is akin to those we saw between the generations spanning from Power6 through Power9.

This week, we want to contemplate the systems that will be using the Power10 chip and how they will be similar to and different from past and …
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Can You Get There From Here? The Road to the Cloud

August 31, 2020 Pete Czornohus

The Connectria team presents a three-part series addressing concerns IBM users have about the platform and its future. Part One: System and remote administration.

Digital transformation, modernization, application agility, blah, blah, blah.

While esoteric buzzwords seem endemic of our times (see what I did there?), we’re all tired of them. Digital transformation is more than a trending buzzword or common phrase. It’s a lengthy and involved process. Before getting started down that road, ask yourself these questions: How old are your applications? Are they older than your kids? How about older than your married kids? Has your application outlived …
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Guru: Reading Nested XML Using SQL

August 31, 2020 Jonathan M. Heinz

XML is a data-interchange format, not a relational database management system. For this reason, using SQL to query XML data can be challenging, as what would be stored in two relational tables are placed in one element of XML. To put it another way, detail data is nested under the header data.

I would like to share a way of using SQL to extract nested data from an XML file. I found this method useful when testing a change to a process that creates XML to be sent to customers. I can use this SQL to quickly check that the …
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COVID-19 Tracking Comes to iSeries Central

August 31, 2020 Alex Woodie

Companies that use IBM i time and attendance software from UKG (formerly known as Kronos) got a nice surprise from the vendor earlier this year: A free reporting template that helps them perform contact tracing in the event that a worker comes down with COVID-19.

As a developer of time and attendance software, UKG (which stands for Ultimate Kronos Group following Kronos’ merger with Ultimate Software earlier this year) is to build tools that track when and where an employee has worked. As it turns out, that’s just the sort of data that public health officials need when conducting …
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IBM Clarifies Utility Pricing, Adds Solution Edition For New Entry Power Server

August 31, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in the middle of July, IBM announced new entry Power Systems servers – tweaks to the Power S914, Power S922, and Power S924 to be specific – that had expanded PCI-Express 4.0 I/O capability as well as a new utility pricing scheme on the Power S922 and Power S924 that helps to lower the capital outlay for buying servers and makes it a little bit more like the economic experience on the public clouds.

This utility pricing, known as the Power Systems Private Cloud Solution, has been available the Power E950 midrange and Power E980 high-end systems since it …
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IBM’s Possible Designs For Power10 Systems

Can You Get There From Here? The Road to the Cloud

Guru: Reading Nested XML Using SQL

COVID-19 Tracking Comes to iSeries Central

IBM Clarifies Utility Pricing, Adds Solution Edition For New Entry Power Server

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