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Big Blue Unveils Spring 2021 IBM i Technology Refreshes

April 12, 2021 Alex Woodie

IBM tomorrow will announce the latest round of Technology Refreshes (TRs) for the current versions of the operating systems. With IBM i 7.4 TR4 and 7.3 TR10, IBM is focusing its efforts on extending automation across various components of the operating system, including the database, security, and high availability. But a surprise also awaits IBM i enthusiasts who are visually inclined.

IBM gave IT Jungle a preview of the announcements that will go public tomorrow, and (very kindly) gave us permission to cover them in today’s issue of The Four Hundred. That means that the announcement materials will not …
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Thoroughly Modern: Innovative And Realistic Approaches To IBM i Modernization

April 12, 2021 Chris Koppe

In your organization, is IT considered a partner in the business or just the service department? Are your IT staff seen as innovators who are connected to your industry and the growth vision of the company? For a lot of clients that I work with on strategy, these are not ways that they would describe their IT departments. But they should be.

At one point, IT was the enabler of innovation, helping drive automation and optimization of business processes. Now, most IT departments are maintaining more than they’re innovating, and there’s an opportunity to change that.

Over the years I’ve …
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Guru: Web Services, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN, Part 2

April 12, 2021 Jon Paris

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the use of DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO to create “blog entries” via a web service. This time I am going to focus on using the GET HTTP method to retrieve blog entries. As you will see the basic process is very similar.

I am going to start by retrieving a single blog post, but rather than retrieve all of the data associated with the post I will show you how to restrict processing to specific elements. I will then move on to look at two approaches to processing multiple posts. The first processes …
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Back To The Future With A New IBM i Logo

April 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Brands only matter if a product survives in the market. And once a product does find its natural niche and has some longevity, there is an immediate tension between preserving that brand because it is what people are familiar with and updating that brand because of changes in the market or artistic taste or new media or just because the marketing people want to change stuff all the time sometimes because, well, that is what they do.

No one has to tell customers of the System/38, er, System/36, er, AS/400, er, AS/400e, er iSeries, er System i, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 14

April 12, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Apologies to all in the IBM i community for being late for putting together the IBM i PTF Guide last week. Sometimes real life interferes with business life, as you all know well. So this is a catch up issue of the Guide, with everything back on track with an update to get current coming out in this Wednesday’s issue of The Four Hundred.

Editor’s Note: It goes without saying that we all owe a big hearty thanks to Doug Bidwell for his tireless efforts over many decades in keeping track of the patches for the firmware, operating …
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Big Blue Unveils Spring 2021 IBM i Technology Refreshes

Thoroughly Modern: Innovative And Realistic Approaches To IBM i Modernization

Guru: Web Services, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN, Part 2

Back To The Future With A New IBM i Logo

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 14

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