TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 33 Archives

A Cornucopia Of Compute

May 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Ever since the advent of file servers in the 1980s, the rise of client/server system architectures in the early 1990s, and the commercialization of Internet networking in the middle 1990s, AS/400 shops and those using the progeny of that venerable IBM midrange computer have had hybrid computing platforms in the datacenter. Meaning, a mix of processor architectures and operating systems other than OS/400 or IBM i that was in some fashion associated with or actually doing mission critical work.

In fact, as you all well know, there is in aggregate more raw compute in the X86 or RISC servers that …
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Open Source Technology Stands On The Shoulders Of Legacy Applications

May 3, 2021 Michael Killian

From microservices to the cloud, executives often want to follow all the latest IT trends. Application developers are no different, except that they want to preserve all of the hard work they and their colleagues have done, while still meeting the new demands of the business. How can this be done? The answer could lie in employing open-source technologies, but in a manner that acknowledges that these technologies would never have been able to flourish without business-oriented languages such as RPG and the applications that millions of programmers have created and supported over more than four decades.

RPG Gave Us
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Guru: Customizing RDi Beyond Preferences

May 3, 2021 Susan Gantner

In my last tip , I covered a few of the preferences that I like to change to customize the way I use RDi. But there are a number of other customizations I use that aren’t implemented via the Preferences dialogs. I’ll continue the customization topic in this tip by covering some of those other options.

Compile-Related Customizations

I’ll start out with a couple of things I like to change related to compiling code. This includes customizing and creating new compile commands and modifying my compile Error List.

I like to modify some of the parameters for the “ordinary” compile …
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Will COVID Drive Long-Term Changes in Customer Interaction?

May 3, 2021 Alex Woodie

The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns shocked companies and economies all over the world. The unprecedented events of the past 14 months accelerated the digital transformation strategies of numerous organizations. But how long will those changes last? Maybe not very long at all, according to one survey.

It’s hard to overstate the significance of the changes that the novel coronavirus has had on our way of life. Being in close proximity to other people – once a requirement for normal human functioning (not to mention commerce) –suddenly became a medical liability. Millions of businesses, schools, churches, and other organizations abruptly …
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Major Bug In IBM i Access Client Solutions

May 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Stop. Don’t click that mouse or hit Enter just yet. There is a major bug in Access Client Solutions 1.1.8.7. Here is the story that we got from one of the many Dougs we know in the IBM i Rebel Alliance, in this case J Douglas Robertson, who is a certified maintainer of IBM Power Systems and who ran into the issue when doing the upgrade.

JD shares the workaround he figured out after the ACS console flew up its own port hole after the upgrade. These words are straight from his own mouth, in italics so you know JD …
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A Cornucopia Of Compute

Open Source Technology Stands On The Shoulders Of Legacy Applications

RPG Gave Us

Guru: Customizing RDi Beyond Preferences

Compile-Related Customizations

Will COVID Drive Long-Term Changes in Customer Interaction?

Major Bug In IBM i Access Client Solutions

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