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IBM Pulls Plug on Systems Magazine, Pushes Community Site

November 4, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM Systems magazine will cease publishing at the end of 2020, ending a two-decade-plus run as an IBM-backed magazine serving the IBM i, AIX, and System z communities, IBM announced this week. In its place, Big Blue plans to ramp up the IBM Community website, which, you will remember, absorbed the old developerWorks content earlier this year.

IBM Systems Magazine has been produced by MSP TechMedia, a division of MSP Communications, under a license from IBM. The media partnership between the two companies, which has been ongoing for at least 22 years, included two magazines: the monthly IBM Systems …
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Grafana Provides a Visualization Option for IBM i Metrics

November 4, 2020 Alex Woodie

Today’s IT professional needs to stay informed on what’s happening across a slew of systems, including storage and CPU utilization. Having a platform-neutral system to visualize all these metrics is important, and one of the most widely used open source observability platforms today is a project called Grafana.

Grafana was originally developed back in 2014 by a developer at Orbitz to be a front-end for Graphite, which another Orbitz developer created years earlier for capturing and storing time-series data generated by a wide array of servers, storage systems, applications, and other pieces of IT gear.

Eventually, the creators decided that …
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IBM Delivered An RDi Update, Too

November 4, 2020 Alex Woodie

Next week, IBM is planning to deliver the PTFs that include the functionality contained in the Technology Refreshes it just unveiled for IBM i 7.3 and 7.4 last month. You will want to stay on the lookout for those updates. But some of the capabilities that IBM “announced” in the TRs shipped months ago, including those for Rational Developer for i (RDi).

The latest release of RDi, or version 9.6.0.8, was included as a feature for IBM i 7.3 TR9 and IBM i 7.4 TR4. IBM, of course, announced those TRs on October 6 and says it plans to …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 4

November 4, 2020 Jenny Thomas

IT Jungle readers are familiar with the writing style of our fearless leader, and editor in chief, Timothy Prickett Morgan. Next week, on November 10, you can actually hear him in action as he moderates a live discussion panel for Eradani with IBM i users who share their success stories. Tim is an entertaining host so it’s worth your time to listen in. You can find the listing below in our Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings section. Also, COMMON members don’t miss out Top Story below for info on the appreciation celebration planned for next week.

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 44

November 4, 2020 Doug Bidwell

You may or may not be aware of this news so it is worth sharing: there is a new version of Access Client Services that is due in the first week of December this year. And, a final reminder that the new Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4 are going to be available on November 13, and so will the Tech Refresh Resaves related to them.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3:
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.2:
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.1:
- Nothing here.
New …
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IBM Pulls Plug on Systems Magazine, Pushes Community Site

Grafana Provides a Visualization Option for IBM i Metrics

IBM Delivered An RDi Update, Too

Four Hundred Monitor, November 4

Top Stories

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 44

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