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Fresche Unveils X-Replay for 5250 Testing

October 14, 2020 Alex Woodie

Fresche this week rolled out X-Replay, a new tool designed to automate the testing of 5250 greenscreen applications. Unlike other tools that work on screengrabs or X-Y coordinates, X-Replay software works at the field-name level, which makes test scripts more resilient to change, according to Fresche, which now boasts a complete lineup of IBM i testing tools.

Fresche has been providing tools for IBM i testing for a while now, mainly with X-Analysis, its cross-reference analysis tool, as well as X-Dataset, which ensures good management and security of data involved in testing. However, when it comes to testing 5250 screens …
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IBM Brings More Open Source to IBM i

October 14, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM has brought an array of new open source packages to its IBM i operating system with the latest batch of Technology Refreshes, including tools for application developers and systems administrators. It’s all part of IBM’s strategy to keep IBM i on the cutting edge through open source, says IBM’s business architect Jesse Gorzinski.

Before IBM unveiled IBM i 7.4 TR3 and 7.3 TR9 last week, we’d already written extensively about many the open source package that IBM has brought to the platform. For instance, we told you earlier this year how Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper were running on …
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The New Economy Presents New Opportunities For IBM i

October 14, 2020 Olenka Van Schendel

Economic downturns don’t cause technology shifts, but they do have a habit of accelerating them. The evolution of any technology follows its own path, as inventors and engineers try to meet customer wants and needs, and this transformation is fairly straightforward when the economy is robust and people feel they can invest time and money in something. But it is different when there is an economic downturn, and it is vital to see and invest in the future when the economy becomes unpredictable, as has happened during the coronavirus pandemic here in 2020.

The pandemic-hit new economy has brought renewed …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 14

October 14, 2020 Jenny Thomas

We take a lot of pride in keeping the pulse an eye on the IBM i ecosystem. We know the cadence of announcements and our “spidey sense” gets tingling when there’s some news getting ready to break. But IBM had a surprise for everyone this week with its announcement that it was planning to break out its managed infrastructure services business from Global Services and create a new, publicly traded company. How important this will be to IBM i shops remains to be seen, but it certainly should lead to some interesting articles from our team in the coming months. …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 41

October 14, 2020 Doug Bidwell

As we have been reporting since October 6, there are new Technology Refreshes that have been launched, and we have come to find out that the Technology Refresh Resaves, which are an important part of the distribution of IBM i code, will be available on November 13.

Here is the PTF rundown by release:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Security
- Performance Tools
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Security
- Performance Tools
PTF Groups 7.2:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Security
PTF Groups 7.1
- There is occasionally stuff here, thanks to extended support. But not this week, again.
New (or updated) links …
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Fresche Unveils X-Replay for 5250 Testing

IBM Brings More Open Source to IBM i

The New Economy Presents New Opportunities For IBM i

Four Hundred Monitor, October 14

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 41

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