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ILEditor2: Satisfying The Need For Development Speed

April 28, 2021 Alex Woodie

Liam Allan doesn’t like anything to slow him down. “I’m impatient,” says the young IBM i phenom. So when he’s writing RPG or COBOL, the code editor had best keep up with him. That’s a problem using something like Rational Developer for IBM i (RDi), which Allan doesn’t particularly care for. And that is one of the primary reasons why Allan developed ILEditor, which is now in its second incarnation as ILEditor 2.

Just over a year ago, Allan and his business partner, Connor Holyday, shipped the first release of ILEditor 2. The pair had just completed an extensive …
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What’s New With BRMS, PowerHA, And Db2 Mirror

April 28, 2021 Alex Woodie

The latest IBM i Technology Refreshes (TRs) brought a number of enhancements to various parts of the operating system and related licensed products. That includes new stuff for its backup and recovery product, BRMS, as well as the two high availability offerings, PowerHA and Db2 Mirror.

On the Backup and Recovery Media Services (BRMS) front, IBM added several new features with IBM i 7.4 TR4 and IBM i 7.3 TR10, including new SQL services that returns log information for BRMS activities. This new SQL service generates the same information that the Display Log for BRM (DSPLOGBRM) command does, but it …
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On Your iRadar: Super Smart Chatbots

April 28, 2021 Alex Woodie

Don’t look now, but thanks to breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP), we’re on the cusp of having chatbots that can provide human-like question-answering capabilities. Within a matter of years, according to experts, basic communication between companies and their customers will be handled by AI, leaving humans to handle tougher cases and VIPs.

The key breakthrough driving advances in NLP are large language models, specifically a class of language model called a transformer network. These transformer networks use deep learning methods to essentially learn the right sequence for words to go together. The order of words has been one of …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 28

April 28, 2021 Jenny Thomas

The winds of change are blowing. Well, it might be more correct to call is a slight breeze, but the fact is that we are starting to see a slow rebound from the pandemic. This week, our own Alex Woodie reported on tech conferences happening around the IBM i. Virtual elements still remain, but the return to in-person conferencing is underway and coming to a city near you. Get more details in the Top Story below and then stay in the loop on what’s happening in your area (or on your computer) by checking out the Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 17

April 28, 2021 Doug Bidwell

You may recall last week, when we were in PTF Guide Download Heaven. As wonderful as it was to have so much to report to all of you, we do owe an apology for the typo on the Cume release levels. With so much happening in one week, it was a case of a little too much excitement and not enough attention to detail. Please accept our sincere regret for the error. Let’s solider ahead with this week with some security bulletins, as well as the regular rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level.

Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for …
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ILEditor2: Satisfying The Need For Development Speed

What’s New With BRMS, PowerHA, And Db2 Mirror

On Your iRadar: Super Smart Chatbots

Four Hundred Monitor, April 28

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 17

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