TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 19 Archives

Low-Code API Development Gets A Boost From Profound

March 10, 2021 Alex Woodie

Profound Logic last week launched Profound API, a new product designed to enable the development and management of RESTful Web services with a minimal amount of coding. The browser-based product works with IBM i programs and data, as well as assets located off the box, and is designed to enable even entry-level IT professionals to get into the API game.

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for decades. Nearly every developer will call or expose an API at some point in their lives. But APIs have been gaining new momentum lately as a critical layer enabling the future of …
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Remain Buys MiWorkplace, Integrates It Into TD/OMS

March 10, 2021 Alex Woodie

In 2020, Remain Software quietly acquired MiWorkplace, a lightweight integrated development environment (IDE) for IBM i. Last month, the company announced that it has completed the integration of MiWorkplace into TD/OMS, its change management system for IBM i. It also rolled out new releases of TD/OMS, Remain API Studio, and Gravity.

MiWorkplace is a Java-based IDE out of Germany that’s been building a user base among the IBM i customer base for a few years. The software, which runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, was developed primarily to provide a better coding experience for SEU users, not as a …
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Tape Popularity Increases in IBM i Land

March 10, 2021 Alex Woodie

With all of the disaster recovery options available to IBM i shops these days — virtual tape libraries, hardware- and software-based high availability, and backups to the cloud — it may be surprising to learn that customers are still installing tape drives in large numbers.

According to the recent HelpSystems’ Marketplace survey, 54 percent of respondents say they rely on tape as one of their ways to recover from a disaster. That was up 6 percent from the previous year’s study. It was also the highest figure for tape since the very first year the company conducted the survey, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 10

March 10, 2021 Jenny Thomas

The plan is on the table. IBM has released its annual report, which is accompanied by a letter from CEO Arvind Krishna expressing his confidence in IBM’s future as a hybrid cloud and AI platform company. Of course, this plan isn’t a surprise as we have monitored IBM’s laser focus on the hybrid cloud that has intensified since Krishna took the help almost one year ago, but there is lots of interesting information about IBM’s the path IBM is paving and the strategies to get where it wants to go that you can access from the link in the Top …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 10

March 10, 2021 Doug Bidwell

This is one of those weeks with the IBM i PTF Guide where there just is not a lot going on with Big Blue and its midrange operating system and systems software stack. This is a very good thing because some weeks, we could use a little less drama, right?

Also: Is it just me, or is writing out 2021 just a little weird?

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

PTF Groups 7.4:
- Temporary Storage PTFs
PTF Groups 7.3:
- Nadda
PTF Groups 7.1:
- Zilch
PTF Groups 7.1:
- Nothing
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Low-Code API Development Gets A Boost From Profound

Remain Buys MiWorkplace, Integrates It Into TD/OMS

Tape Popularity Increases in IBM i Land

Four Hundred Monitor, March 10

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 10

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