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Big Blue Revives IBM i 7.1 With Power9 Support

November 16, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We don’t get surprises very often in the Power Systems market, and even fewer in the IBM i sub-market. But last week, we did get a surprise – and it was a pleasant one – as Big Blue decided that it was going to allow for IBM i 7.1, which has long since been removed from marketing and which was just recently given extended extended support through April 2023, to run on selected models of the Power Systems line using Power9 processors.

That IBM would allow for this is remarkable, and it shows the economic and technical difficulties that many …
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Disaster Recovery, At Your Service

November 16, 2020 Matt Paterini

Every organization needs a sound disaster recovery plan to protect their business from natural disasters, weather events, cyber-attacks, and other unexpected threats. Disaster recovery strategies can take on different forms depending on the requirements of the business, specifically the defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

These RTO and RPO metrics are not precisely the same, but they are interrelated and are part of a complete disaster recovery plan.

The RTO metric is not just a stopwatch that starts ticking between the time applications go down, for whatever reason, and when they come back again online again. …
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Guru: RDi V9.6, Part 10 – Debugger Enhancements

November 16, 2020 Susan Gantner

Here I go again – more enhancements to talk about that have come about in RDi V9.6. This time, it’s the debugger that has been enhanced. The 9.6.0.7 fix pack included some new goodies for the debugger.

Both of the enhanced features were popular Requests for Enhancement (RFEs) — the ability to display very large variable values and the addition of a condition to Service Entry Points (SEPs). These are further proof that the RFE process works. If you haven’t visited the RFE site to vote for your favorite suggested features for RDi, do it now. . . or maybe …
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A Little Less Talk, A Little More Action, Please

November 16, 2020 Alex Woodie

We can talk until the cows come home about the importance of modernizing the IBM i platform (and we do). But for some of the younger people who call the platform home, all the talk is masking the fact that the window for taking decisive action to take the platform in a bold new direction is shrinking.

You can count Peter Sørensen, the CEO of IBM i output management software vendor InterForm, as one of the frustrated younger guys. At 40, he’s old enough to have spent a decade working with the platform, but still young enough to feel …
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IBM Keeps OpenShift Up To Speed On Power Systems

November 16, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For more than two years now, as we have previously reported, there have been a number of ways to bring Kubernetes container control to the Power Systems platform, including Docker Enterprise Edition, IBM Cloud Private, and Red Hat OpenShift. In the wake of the Red Hat acquisition, it is pretty clear that OpenShift will be the container environment of choice on IBM System z and Power Systems machines on premises and on these machines as well as X86 iron deployed on the IBM Cloud.

To that end, we find in announcement letter 220-439 that IBM’s Red Hat unit has …
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Big Blue Revives IBM i 7.1 With Power9 Support

Disaster Recovery, At Your Service

Guru: RDi V9.6, Part 10 – Debugger Enhancements

A Little Less Talk, A Little More Action, Please

IBM Keeps OpenShift Up To Speed On Power Systems

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