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The IBM Sales Pitch For The Power E1080

November 29, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It has been a long, long time since a lot of server customers needed to upgrade their machinery every time a new processor and a new system using it comes to market. Back in the early days of the AS/400 platform, customers on the cutting edge of modernizing their back office, manufacturing, and distribution operations often upgraded their machines once a year to add capacity as use cases for these mission critical systems expanded faster than Dennard scaling and Moore’s Law increases in CPU performance.

These days, machines are installed and not upgraded or swapped out until one, two, or …
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Getting Started With Connectria’s Hybrid IBM i And AIX Architecture

November 29, 2021 Roy Flowers

As a leading provider of IBM i systems, we know the ins and outs around your mission critical systems and their importance to your business. As an AWS advanced consulting partner, we’ve also worked with many customers on the best ways to achieve their cloud migration goals.

When considering projects around digital transformation, it’s important to maintain realistic expectations. To keep you on track while on your cloud journey, it becomes essential to organize and plan your digital transformation into a more manageable process consisting of small steps towards big goals.

Time and time again, we find that users target …
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Guru: Content Assist Plus in Run SQL Scripts

November 29, 2021 Paul Tuohy

By now, you should be well aware that Run SQL Scripts provides content assist (promoting) for Select statements (see Guru: ACS 1.1.8.3 Content Assist Includes Prompt For SQL! ). But did you know that you can also use content assist for stored procedures, table functions and parameters? Let’s see how it works, using some of the Integrated File System (IFS) procedures and functions provided by IBM i Services.

Prompting a Stored Procedure

Open Run SQL Scripts, type in:
```
call qsys2.
```
Then press F4 (or Ctrl+Space). You will be presented with a list of all the stored procedures in the schema …
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New LTO 9 Gear, SAN Switch On Tap From IBM

November 29, 2021 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops facing a storage crunch may be interested in new tape products unveiled by IBM last week, including a new LTO 9 tape drive and LTO 9 compatibility for an existing tape autoloader and an existing tape library. Big Blue also announced LTO 9 compatibility for an existing storage enclosure, and a new 48-port c-type switch for connecting SAN environments.

IBM’s LTO fun starts with the IBM TS2290 SAS Tape Drive Model H9S, a half-height drive based on the new LTO 9 Ultrium specification. The TS2290 connects to hosts – including Power servers running IBM i, AIX, …
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A Shot Across The Bow For Power8 Upgrades

November 29, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Sales of new Power8-based Power Systems machines by Big Blue have not been possible for years, but customers with existing Power8 iron have been able to get what IBM calls miscellaneous equipment specification, or MES, upgrades of their existing systems to add processing capacity to those vintage machines.

The Power8 lineup, launched in April 2014, and the entry machines in the Power8 lineup were withdrawn at the end of February in 2019, an announcement that IBM made in October 2018 to give customers fair warning. In February 2019, IBM said that it was going to withdraw high-end Power8 machinery …
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The IBM Sales Pitch For The Power E1080

Getting Started With Connectria’s Hybrid IBM i And AIX Architecture

Guru: Content Assist Plus in Run SQL Scripts

Prompting a Stored Procedure

New LTO 9 Gear, SAN Switch On Tap From IBM

A Shot Across The Bow For Power8 Upgrades

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