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The Rest Of October’s Power Systems Software Announcements

October 19, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The software stack in the Cognitive Systems division, which most of us still call the Power Systems division, is a lot wider and deeper than the IBM i stack, even though IBM i does represent a lot of the software functionality and generates a lot of the revenue stream for Power Systems machinery.

In addition to the Technology Refresh updates for IBM i 7.4 and IBM i 7.3, which were announced on October 6 and which will be available on November 13, Big Blue also updated a bunch of other pieces of systems software that run on Power Systems, which …
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Choosing The Language To Transform Your Applications

October 19, 2020 Michael Killian

Most of our customers are comfortable with RPG since it is the predominant language on the IBM i, and most are familiar with Java and .NET since those languages have been around for two to three decades. But many are not as familiar with Node.js.

There are a lot of great resources available regarding Node.js, so I thought amalgamating that information into one concise article for ease of reference might be a better use of your time. There are so many resources out there to give context and meaning to Node.js, so I have put together a list of the …
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Guru: Concerning The Stepping-On Of Feet

October 19, 2020 Ted Holt

It has come to my attention that once again I did not tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In Three Suboptimal I/O Practices, I said that a simple SELECT INTO was preferable to a cursor that fetches one row. It turns out that there is at least one situation in which SELECT INTO will not serve the purpose, and one has no choice but to use a cursor that fetches one row.

The situation is this: the program must lock the fetched row for update. Despite its power and simplicity, SELECT INTO cannot lock …
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As I See It: Another Modest Proposal

October 19, 2020 Victor Rozek

In 1729, responding to English indifference to chronic poverty in Ireland, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay called A Modest Proposal in which he suggests the Irish could sell their babies to the English gentry as food, thus addressing both the problem of Irish poverty and, presumably, the lack of meat variety in England. (I shouldn’t have to say this, but given the bizarre QAnon belief that elites actually drink children’s blood, it should be noted that Swift’s proposal was, you know, satire.)

Well, with the country starting to resemble 1729 England updated for inflation, it’s time for another …
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Big Blue Bolsters IBM i High Availability And Data Resiliency

October 19, 2020 Alex Woodie

High availability and data resiliency are critical topics in the minds of business owners these days, especially in light of the summer’s disasters, both natural and manmade. To that end, in the latest batch of Technology Refreshes, IBM has bolstered the services that provide high availability and data resilience in IBM i, PowerHA, and BRMS.

Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS) is the licensed product that thousands of IBM i shops use to automate their backups and recoveries. Those backups usually involving tape, which was cited by 48 percent of IBM i shops in the 2020 IBM i Marketplace Survey …
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The Rest Of October’s Power Systems Software Announcements

Choosing The Language To Transform Your Applications

Guru: Concerning The Stepping-On Of Feet

As I See It: Another Modest Proposal

Big Blue Bolsters IBM i High Availability And Data Resiliency

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