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IBM Versus GlobalFoundries: A Lawsuit Instead Of The Power Chips Planned

June 14, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, IBM took its former foundry partner, GlobalFoundries, to court in a lawsuit that alleges, in essence, that the company promised to deliver Power9 processors based on 14 nanometer technologies and Power10 processors based on 10 nanometer technologies and had some issues with the former and never delivered on the latter.

Not only that, IBM’s lawsuit says that it never released GlobalFoundries from its from its promise to deliver a 10 nanometer chip, and when the company promised to shift to 7 nanometer technologies, IBM in good faith worked on developing Power10 chips for these processes and spent at …
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Thoroughly Modern: Clearing Up Some Cloud And IBM i Computing Myths

June 14, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We hear a lot of talk about cloud these days, but who is walking the walk? The coronavirus pandemic made a lot of companies take a hard look at how they were doing business, and hardware wasn’t excluded from this conversation. Businesses are now saying, with so many cloud options available, where and how can they start getting their feet wet?

We certainly all know that the IBM i community is dramatically different from most other platforms in the IT space, and has been since Day One. For household names such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, …
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Guru: Use SQL To Replace Reports

June 14, 2021 Ted Holt

Does anybody write report programs anymore? If so, why? Reports are so twentieth-century. The people we serve want spreadsheets, Web pages, cell-phone apps and other modern conveniences. What we need is an easy way to make our report programs write the same information to modern interfaces without having to perform major surgery on them.

Some 10 years or so ago, I built a scripting language to enable me to reformat spooled files into stream files in CSV format. I called my utility BASS. It was, and continues to be, a successful project.

But BASS is not the only way …
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Security Checks Drive Consulting Biz for Briteskies

June 14, 2021 Alex Woodie

With high-profile ransomware attacks becoming the norm and calls for a federal cybersecurity department gaining steam, there’s a distinct uneasiness when it comes to the security of corporate computer systems. That uptick in awareness is helping to drive business for Briteskies, the Cleveland, Ohio-based IT consultancy that has made IBM i security a cornerstone of its business.

Briteskies was founded in 2000 primarily as a JD Edwards specialist for organizations in the Great Lakes region. Over the years, the company has expanded into other niches, including Magento e-commerce systems, custom RPG development, and computer security.

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 24

June 14, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Don’t get hyper this week, but the big thing happening in IBM i Land is a set of high impact and pervasive, or HIPER, PTF patches to all four current variants of the IBM i operating system. There are also tweaks to storage PTFs and for the MQSeries message queueing middleware that runs on various platforms from Big Blue, including IBM i.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Temporary Storage PTFs
- MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Temporary Storage PTFs
- MQ for
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Moving To Git Source Control On IBM i

June 14, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is one thing when vendors create tools that help users do things, but quite another when users talk about how they use those tools and how well they work.

On June 24, ARCAD Software will be highlighting how BWI Companies, which is based in Nash, Texas, has adopted Git source control on the IBM i platform, bridging the transaction processing systems behind its lawn, garden, animal health, agriculture, landscape, and pest management products distribution business. BWI was founded in 1958 by Bob and Betty Bunch as a seed retailer based in Texarkana, Texas, and in 1972 started wholesale …
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IBM Versus GlobalFoundries: A Lawsuit Instead Of The Power Chips Planned

Thoroughly Modern: Clearing Up Some Cloud And IBM i Computing Myths

Guru: Use SQL To Replace Reports

Security Checks Drive Consulting Biz for Briteskies

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 24

Moving To Git Source Control On IBM i

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