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Paving The Road Ahead For A Better Ride

January 4, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We always sit behind the wheel of the present as we drive to the future with our baggage from the past in the trunk.

It is with this in mind that we contemplate 2021 and the uncertainty of regional, national, and global economies as well as how the coronavirus pandemic will be handled around the world in some pretty tricky political climates. These forces will affect all IBM i customers, of course, and we are not so much interested in describing all of these complex turbulences as they intertwine. What we do want to do is provide a few ideas …
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Let IT Flow: The Benefits Of Endless Modernization

January 4, 2021 Alex Woodie

The “big bang” approach has been falling out of favor for some time in the world of IT project management. Now, according to new research from Micro Focus, organizations that embrace the concepts of continual improvement, or “endless modernization,” of legacy applications achieve better results than those that attempt a wholesale replacement or a full rewrite of them.

The research was conducted by Standish Group, which Micro Focus contracted to write Endless Modernization: How Infinite Flow Keeps Software Fresh, which was released in early December. The study builds on Standish’s longstanding Chaos Report series, which seeks to document …
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Guru: SQL and QTEMP

January 4, 2021 Ted Holt

Hey, Ted.

For many years IBM i developers, operators, and others have taken advantage of an operating system feature called the QTEMP library. Through the years you have referenced it various times in IT Jungle as a useful feature of IBM i. I recently read an article in which a respected IBM expert from the Rochester lab services team told people not to use the QTEMP library when working in SQL. It would be very interesting if you could dive into this topic and explain when/if there is still a time and place for QTEMP. I think a lot of …
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Four Hundred Monitor, January 4

January 4, 2021 Jenny Thomas

Welcome back! When last we were together, we were all eagerly anticipating the end of a very long and arduous year. Now we find ourselves in the new year with a bit of renewed hope for a return to some sense of the normalcy, although we must continue to tread carefully toward that goal. As we hang up our new calendars, we have the opportunity to look ahead about what may come to pass in the next 12 months. Last year, the prognosticators didn’t do such a great job since nothing went according to plan. But still it is fun …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Numbers 51 And 52

January 4, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to the new year, everyone, but we have some old business to attend to before we get on with 2021. With The Four Hundred being on hiatus since the middle of December, now is the time of the year when we get caught up on the past IBM i PTF Guide updates.

Let’s start with Volume 22, Number 51. Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPER’s (High Impact/Pervasive)
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPER’s (High Impact/Pervasive)
- MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0/V9.1/V9.2
PTF Groups 7.2:
- HIPER’s (High Impact/Pervasive)
- MQ for IBM i
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Paving The Road Ahead For A Better Ride

Let IT Flow: The Benefits Of Endless Modernization

Guru: SQL and QTEMP

Four Hundred Monitor, January 4

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Numbers 51 And 52

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