TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 6 Archives

Google Launches Power Systems Cloud, But Not Yet for IBM i

January 22, 2020 Alex Woodie

Google last week officially unveiled IBM Power Systems for Google Cloud, a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering that will allow customers to run AIX, Linux, and IBM i workloads and manage it from their familiar Google Cloud accounts. Google says that AIX and Linux are ready to go, but says that IBM i customers will have to wait just a little longer to get in on the cloud action.

The general availability of IBM Power Systems on Google Cloud has been years in the making. Google was one of the earliest enrollees in IBM’s Open Power initiative, and …
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Thoroughly Modern: Taking The Pulse Of IBM i Developers

January 22, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It takes someone who has experience in application development to create and sell tools that help make a developer’s job easier. We think about the tool creators, but when it comes to getting people to adopt a new technology, the technical sales team at any software company is the bridge that connects developers of tools to the developer of applications who can be helped by those tools. In this edition of Thoroughly Modern, we are talking with Stephen Flaherty, a technical engineer at Fresche Solutions, about what IBM i developers are thinking about and doing today.

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Industry Speaks: IBM i Predictions For 2020, Part 2

January 22, 2020 Alex Woodie

What will happen in the IBM i community in 2020? It’s a question that’s worth some speculation, particularly from members of the IBM i community who have given it some thought. Here is our second (and final) batch of community predictions for 2020.

The IBM i platform has been chugging along for 32 years (or 40 if you count the S/38). Do you really think this will be the year that it goes kaput? Trevor Perry certainly doesn’t think so, and you probably shouldn’t, either.

“There will be continued predictions of the demise of IBM i throughout 2020,” the IBM …
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Four Hundred Monitor, January 22

January 22, 2020 Jenny Thomas

I hope you’re not sick of cloud news yet, because we’re only a few weeks into the New Year and the cloud continues to dominate the headlines. Of course, it’s no surprise there are cloudy skies ahead for the IBM i ecosystems in 2020, but there is lots more to look forward to in the coming months. Our own Co-Editor of The Four Hundred Alex Woodie reached out to ask leaders around our community for their best predictions of what’s to come, and you can see what he found out in our top story below. Then don’t miss the results …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 3

January 22, 2020 Doug Bidwell

We are rolling along and singing a PTF song here as January is ramping up and everyone working on IBM i is getting back to work after the holidays.

First of all, the new J-Resave for 7.3 has been tested on a slip of the LIC, which we have been talking about for the past month, and it works! So this is very good news for customers who have created logical partitions without the Hardware Management Console (HMC). The default SST profiles Expired Passwords after PTF upgrade – see this link: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1127871. And here is the rest of the …
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Google Launches Power Systems Cloud, But Not Yet for IBM i

Thoroughly Modern: Taking The Pulse Of IBM i Developers

Industry Speaks: IBM i Predictions For 2020, Part 2

Four Hundred Monitor, January 22

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 3

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