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How IBM i Fits Into the Evolving ERP Market

November 30, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM i remains a solid platform on which to run an ERP system. But with the shift to the cloud, not to mention a surge in homegrown application development on IBM i, the platform’s future for packaged ERP deployments is uncertain.

The IBM midrange platform has a rich history of packaged ERP applications for a range of business types. From discrete manufacturing and trucking to banking and healthcare management, software vendors have targeted the IBM i platform and its predecessors to run integrated ERP systems and other similar types of business applications for over decades.

But the go-go ERP deployments …
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Breathing New Life Into Your POWER7 And POWER7+ Systems

November 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is a hard lesson for people to learn, but savvy IT organizations certainly do learn it – some decades ago, some only now. And that lesson is that not every application slowdown and performance bottleneck in a system is directly related to the clock speed or throughput of the central processor. While the processors are indeed central, a system is comprised of main memory, storage, and network I/O, and tuning up a machine as many times as not means bolstering these other components to help the CPU better do the job that is latent in its particular feeds and …
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Guru: SQL Writes CL

November 30, 2020 Ted Holt

SQL is the one tool I cannot work without. Take it away from me and I’ll start driving a truck for a living. Naturally I’m eager to find more ways to make SQL work for me. Today I’d like to share how I recently used SQL to write a huge CL command for me. This is a technique that’s good to know.

My challenge was to copy all of the several hundred physical data files in a library to a save file so that those files could be loaded onto another IBM i system. The Save Library (SAVLIB) command was …
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You Can’t Just Keep Doing What You Have Always Done

November 30, 2020 Rob McNelly

There are philosophical differences that exist between people regarding the best ways to configure, manage, and maintain infrastructure, and this holds as true for infrastructure built around IBM i as it is for other kinds of platforms. The easiest and fastest thing to do – and what makes the most sense according to plenty of people – is to do what they have always done. Just keep replicating the past out into the future to infinity.

Others point out that this mindset stifles progress and ignores all of the innovations that have come to the IBM i platform through the …
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Resilience In The Platform, Resilience In The Business

November 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The coronavirus pandemic is making it clear just how dependent much of the global economy is on mobility, entertainment, travel, and hospitality. But it is also making it clear that many parts of the economy, thanks to IT infrastructure, are resilient and are coping with the stresses and strains.

“The need to rapidly innovate has clearly become apparent,” Steve Sibley, vice president and offering manager for the Cognitive Systems division at IBM, explained in his keynote at the recent Common Europe Online vCEC 2020 event. “And we will continue to do that for AIX, IBM i and Linux,” Sibley said, …
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How IBM i Fits Into the Evolving ERP Market

Breathing New Life Into Your POWER7 And POWER7+ Systems

Guru: SQL Writes CL

You Can’t Just Keep Doing What You Have Always Done

Resilience In The Platform, Resilience In The Business

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