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Talking Shop With Power Systems Chief Stephen Leonard

May 10, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Whether or not you were aware of it, the Cognitive Systems division of IBM – what we still colloquially call Power Systems here at IT Jungle and what everyone else still calls it for the most part – has had a new general manager for quite some time and we had not yet had a chance to talk to the new chief. But recently we did hop on the Zoom with Stephen Leonard to get some insight about the Power Systems business and how it fits into the new and evolving IBM and the rapidly changing IT sector.

Leonard dates …
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Thoroughly Modern: IBM i Web Development Trends To Watch In the Second Half

May 10, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is hard to believe, but in terms of budgets and thinking, within six weeks we will be entering the second half of 2021, a turning point year if there ever was one, and perhaps an inflection point for 2021 itself and thus for the next decade or so.

The need to modernize is not lost on most IBM i shops, but it seems like there’s a new web technology to learn each week. It’s no surprise that getting started with Web development is a stumbling block in itself. That’s why vendors like Fresche are working to demystify Web development …
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Guru: Date Format Confusion

May 10, 2021 Ted Holt

Hey, Ted:

I use the Copy to Import File (CPYTOIMPF) command to build a CSV file to be sent to a MySQL system. My colleagues are unable to import the file because of the format of a timestamp field. CPYTOIMPF puts a hyphen between the date and time (e.g. 2021-05-10-04.36.24.849555), but the other system wants a space between them. Other than writing a custom program do you know of another way to change the format of the timestamp output?

— Richard

You won’t need a custom program, Richard. There’s another way to handle this requirement.

IBM has already very thoughtfully …
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Precisely To Bolster Data Governance With Infogix Buy

May 10, 2021 Alex Woodie

The private equity groups that own Precisely (formerly Syncsort) last week announced a plan to acquire Infogix, a provider of data governance software and related tools designed to boost trust in data. While there is some overlap with Precisely’s current software, particularly in data quality, the company says Infogix’s offerings will bolster its overall data integrity story. For IT Jungle readers, the fact that Infogix has IBM i software may be of interest.

Infogix has a long history in the IT business going back to 1982, when Madhaven Nayar founded the company in Naperville, Illinois as Unitech Systems. For decades, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 19

May 10, 2021 Doug Bidwell

As The Four Hundred reported last week, there is a major bug in Access Client Solutions 1.1.8.7. We originally said that IBM was pulling it and replacing it soon with ACS 1.1.8.8. We were expecting it last week, but it did not happen. Since this story ran, IBM has said that customers moving to ACS 1.1.8.7 should do so and then call into IBM and get a patch called TESTFIX_1.1.8.7 and apply it. Here is a link to the document that tells you how to do this and here is the link to the patch itself. This is …
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Talking Shop With Power Systems Chief Stephen Leonard

Thoroughly Modern: IBM i Web Development Trends To Watch In the Second Half

Guru: Date Format Confusion

Precisely To Bolster Data Governance With Infogix Buy

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 19

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