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The Mod Squad Comes Together to Modernize Old RPG

October 6, 2021 Alex Woodie

In the early 70s, a group of fictional social misfits joined up to solve crimes on the hit television series The Mod Squad. Now a group of real-life IBM i professionals of the same name are uniting to solve an equally pressing problem: modernizing old RPG code, including some that dates back to the 1970s.

“You’ve heard of IBM‘s upward compatibility,” says Rich Ollari, an IBM i veteran who is one of the ringleaders of the new Mod Squad. “Code that ran back in the 80s, even the 70s, is still running today, and that’s what we’re fighting with. …
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Every IBM i Shop Must Have An API Integration Strategy

October 6, 2021 Daniel Magid

I have had several very exciting conversations with IBM i users recently about new technology as they have reached out to Eradani for help in advancing their IBM i applications using APIs. More and more I hear how IBM i pros are learning new things and innovating to transform their IBM systems into examples of leading-edge computing. One of the cool things IBM i users are recognizing is that the value of APIs comes not just from making IBM i data available to other applications and outside users, but also from adding additional function to RPG applications by calling out …
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Rocket Software Names New CEO

October 6, 2021 Alex Woodie

Rocket Software yesterday announced that Milan Shetti, currently the company’s president and a former Hewlett-Packard vice president, next month will take over the CEO position from Andy Youniss, who will step back from day-to-day operations but will remain with the company he co-founded more than 30 years ago.

Youniss co-founded Rocket Software in 1990 in the garage of his home near Boston, Massachusetts with a plan to develop and sell tools for IBM’s DB2 database, as it was then called (it only recently was renamed Db2, with the lowercase “b”). Its first product was a resource monitor for IBM’s …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 6

October 6, 2021 Jenny Thomas

October is a busy time for our IBM i ecosystem, with COMMON’s POWERUp conference wrapping up this week, and the final RPG & DB2 Summit coming up later this month, which you can find more details about in the Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings section. Of course, conference season has changed in the 18 months or so, but there are still opportunities to be had for online learning, although we look forward to the day when we can get back on the ground with all of you. Until then, read on for the news of the week.

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 40

October 6, 2021 Doug Bidwell

The security vulnerabilities have calmed down for a week, and maybe the world was just being kind so we could all attend POWERUp 2021, which runs from Monday to Thursday this week and is only available online. Visit the COMMON user group website to find out the particulars.

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

PTF Groups 7.4:
- IBM HTTP Server for i
- MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0
- Db2 Web Query for i V2.3.0
PTF Groups 7.3:
- IBM HTTP Server for i
- MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0
- Db2 Web Query for i V2.3.0
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The Mod Squad Comes Together to Modernize Old RPG

Every IBM i Shop Must Have An API Integration Strategy

Rocket Software Names New CEO

Four Hundred Monitor, October 6

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 40

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