TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 37 Archives

A Million Miles Away From Machine Learning

May 24, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The spring COMMON NAViGATE conference has not yet started, the IBM Think 2021 conference has just ended and so has Google I/O 2021, and only a month ago we participated in Nvidia’s GPU Technical Conference 2021. A whole lotta things are rattling around in our brains, and we are still thinking about some of the things people have been saying about artificial intelligence, the instantiation of which based on machine learning techniques seems to work quite well but no one really knows, in the same way a COBOL or RPG program is absolutely deterministic, why it works.

This is …
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PHP Decisions Loom as Original Distro Reaches End of Life

May 24, 2021 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops have five more weeks until Zend Server Basic, the PHP runtime used by thousands of IBM i shops over the years, reaches end of life and will no longer be offered, supported, or updated with security fixes. Customers that want to continue using PHP safely beyond July 1 will need to obtain a new license or move to a new PHP runtime.

The long history of Zend Server Basic stretches all the way back to 2006, which was the year when the PHP runtime became one of the first open source technologies to be adapted to run …
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Guru: Generate SQL for Dependents

May 24, 2021 Paul Tuohy

Way back in October 2014, in the article Find A View Of A View Of A View. . ., I detailed a stored procedure that, given the name of a table or a view, provides the full list of dependent views and all of their dependents and all of their dependents, etc. This is a stored procedure that has served me well in the world of DDL, where it is common to have views of views of views.

In this article I will describe a follow-on stored procedure that will generate the DDL for a given table/view and all …
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As I See It: Orwellian

May 24, 2021 Victor Rozek

In last month’s article, I expressed ambivalence about our increasing reliance on technology and its growing dominance even as it slips ever further from our control. The challenge presented by a host of computer technologies is how to maximize their benefits while minimizing their potential for harm. And the more powerful the technology, the greater the temptation to weaponize it.

I closed the article with the following statement:

We are already using artificial intelligence on an enterprise scale. It won’t be long before it’s used on a planetary scale. Computer intelligence is evolving much quicker than human intelligence. According …
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COMMON Heads To Ohio With Hybrid NAViGATE Event

May 24, 2021 Alex Woodie

COMMON this week is welcoming members back to its first in-person event in over a year. The physical fun will commence in Columbus, Ohio, where it will hold its NAViGATE conference for both in-person and online attendees this Monday through Wednesday.

More than 250 sessions will be presented by 100-plus IBM i experts during COMMON’s three-day show. Each session will take place live (as opposed to being pre-recorded, which became quite common during COVID-19) and will be available to folks who travelled to the Columbus venues as well as to people logging in over the Internet.

The NAViGATE schedule …
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A Million Miles Away From Machine Learning

PHP Decisions Loom as Original Distro Reaches End of Life

Guru: Generate SQL for Dependents

As I See It: Orwellian

COMMON Heads To Ohio With Hybrid NAViGATE Event

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