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Db2 And SQL Services Get Upgrades With TRs

October 12, 2020 Alex Woodie

Among the biggest enhancements that IBM is bringing to IBM i with the latest batch of Technology Refreshes are new capabilities added to the integrated Db2 database and, specifically, the slew of SQL-based services that retrieve all types of data from the platform for IBM i professionals.

As we previously told you, IBM has decided to rename SQL Services, which were the collection of pre-defined SQL queries that recreate traditional IBM i commands and sometimes bring something entirely new. The growing gaggle of services (or perhaps it’s a herd?) are now being officially referred to as IBM i services, …
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Thoroughly Modern: Speed Up Application Development With Automated Testing

October 12, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Starting with the System/38 and even more so with the AS/400 and its progeny, the hallmark of the system, at least according to IBM, was its ease of use. This is not exactly the right idea. While the integrated nature of the platform means it is easy to deploy, and the self-management nature of tech support, database administration, and even system administration yields an ease of management, and the tight coupling of the relational database management system with the high-level compilers has definitely yielded an ease of programming.

It is that last bit that is the hallmark …
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Guru: Dynamic Arrays Come To RPG – Limitations, Circumventions, And More

October 12, 2020 Jon Paris

In my first two tips in this series I covered the basics of automatic sizing arrays and variable sized arrays. In this final part am going to discuss some of the current limitations in this support and the facilities IBM has put in place to help circumvent them.

IBM publishes an extensive list of the limitations, but in normal usage only a couple present “real” restrictions in practical terms. If you are curious though, you can find the full list here.

Limitations

The first limitation to bear in mind is that, currently, only top-level variables can be defined …
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IBM Goes All-In On Hybrid Cloud

October 12, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, that was a bit of a surprise, and probably something that only obliquely matters to IBM i shops at the moment, but Big Blue’s top brass has decided to carve out its managed infrastructure services business from Global Services and spin it out as a new, publicly traded company.

This business, which is tentatively being called NewCo until a real name is provided, is expected to be cut loose in a tax free manner and distributed to IBM’s shareholders by the end of 2021, so we have some time to assess the ramifications, if any, for the IBM i …
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Tweaks To Power System Iron Complement TR Updates

October 12, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in July, IBM upgraded the peripheral I/O on several of its Power9-based servers with more PCI-Express 4.0 bandwidth capacity, and now IBM is offering the increased bandwidth on several machines tuned up for running SAP HANA in addition to making a number of other hardware enhancements and withdrawals.

In announcement letter 120-054 you will get the feeds and speeds of the updated Power H922, a two-socket, 2U server, and in announcement letter 120-055 you will get the feeds and speeds of the updated Power H924, a two-socket, 4U system. As far as I can tell, the machines are essentially …
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Db2 And SQL Services Get Upgrades With TRs

Thoroughly Modern: Speed Up Application Development With Automated Testing

Guru: Dynamic Arrays Come To RPG – Limitations, Circumventions, And More

Limitations

IBM Goes All-In On Hybrid Cloud

Tweaks To Power System Iron Complement TR Updates

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