TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 26 Archives

Crazy Idea Number 615: Variable Priced Power Systems Partitions

April 5, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When you stare down the blank page as much as I have in my career, you learn to not be afraid of that blank page. If you look at it long enough – usually for only a few minutes – ideas flip into existence like quantum particles spinning their curlicues. Most of them are silly, some are utterly useless, but eventually you get one that is worth following to see where it might go.

So it is with an idea that popped into my head, which was a daydream about IBM creating variable priced partitions on the Power Systems machines. …
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Do The Math When Looking at IBM i Hosting For Cost Savings

April 5, 2021 Matt Paterini

COVID-19 has accelerated certain business trends that were already gaining strength prior to the start of the pandemic. E-commerce, telehealth, and video conferencing are some of the most obvious examples. One example that may not be as obvious to the general public but has a profound impact on business is the shift in strategy of IBM i infrastructure from traditional, on-premises environments to some form of remote configuration. These remote configurations and all of their variations are broadly referred to in the community as IBM i hosting.

“Hosting” in this context can mean different things to different people, and in …
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Guru: Web Services, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN, Part 1

April 5, 2021 Jon Paris

Many of the “Can you help me with. . . ” communications that cross my desk these days include reference to JSON. Sometimes the questioner is receiving JSON in a file, or has to retrieve it from a web service, or needs to generate JSON in response to a query. While there are many ways to handle these requirements, RPG’s built-in DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you and are quite simple once you understand the basics.

In this series of tips, I am going to start with a basic example that uses both …
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Oracle Versus Rimini Slogs On In Second Decade

April 5, 2021 Alex Woodie

The lawsuit that keeps on giving, Oracle Versus Rimini Street, is generating news again, as the two companies continue to duke it out in federal court. But the battle spilled out into the streets with a pair of dueling press releases issued April 1 that had us wondering if it was all a joke. It wasn’t.

The last time we visited Oracle Versus Rimini Street was two years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Rimini on the issue of costs. After a jury decided that Rimini was violating Oracle’s copyright in its third-party software support business …
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HCI Is The Dominant Converged System, Probably For Good

April 5, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Way back in the dawn of time, all systems were “converged,” meaning that their compute, storage, and networking were embodied in their totality within the same system. These functions were pulled apart and a slew of best-of-breed server, switch, and storage appliances were created and they could be mixed and matched in myriad ways. Some might say in too many ways for the vast majority of IT shops, who don’t have the luxury of bales of money laying around to attract PhDs in computer science.

As distributed computing really took hold in the 1990s, but the 2000s it was clear …
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Crazy Idea Number 615: Variable Priced Power Systems Partitions

Do The Math When Looking at IBM i Hosting For Cost Savings

Guru: Web Services, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN, Part 1

Oracle Versus Rimini Slogs On In Second Decade

HCI Is The Dominant Converged System, Probably For Good

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