TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 10 Archives

Marketplace Study Shows How IBM i Language Use Evolves

February 9, 2022 Alex Woodie

It’s no secret that RPG dominates development on the IBM i platform. SQL and Control Language (CL) are also heavily used in the day-to-day operations of tens of thousands of IBM i shops. But what about other established languages, like Java and C++? What about newer open source languages, like PHP and Node.js? The recent HelpSystems Marketplace Study provides us a clue into language use.

HelpSystems published its first IBM i Marketplace Study back in January 2016, reflecting data collected in late 2015 from 834 IBM i professionals around the world. One of the questions it has consistently asked is …
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To My Dearest IBM i . . .

February 9, 2022 Visual LANSA

Very rarely do hardware and software stay together for so long…

Hardware finds newer, younger, more trendy software….

The trendiest software jumps to the best hardware….

But every so often…

The best hardware and software stay together for a lifetime!

To My Dearest IBM i:

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I wanted to profess my love and gratitude to you. Although we have spent over 30 Valentine’s Days together, I didn’t want this one to pass us by without acknowledging the special place you hold in my heart.

I have watched you blossom from a young aspiring server to the …
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SrinSoft CEO Ram Hari’s Long Road on IBM i

February 9, 2022 Alex Woodie

Ram Hari has had the sort of IT career that many dream of. Hired in the late 1990s as a Y2K programmer, the India native climbed the corporate IT ranks, and today runs his own 500-person consulting company called SrinSoft. The New York City-based company offers a range of IT services, but with interest in IBM i modernization and migrations spiking during COVID, Hari is finding it hard to satisfy demand.

Hari’s career started in 1995, soon after earning an undergraduate degree in computer science and electric engineering from a university in India. After getting his RPG certification, he was …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 9

February 9, 2022 Jenny Thomas

In Monitor, we love helping you keep up on what’s happening in the world of computing, but sometimes we also love to refocus back in our own IBM i ecosystem. Which is why this week we wanted to call your attention to a conversation our Editor Tim Prickett Morgan had with Ken King, who quietly took over as general manager of Power Systems last July. Their conversation, in case you missed it on Monday, is listed as our Top Story below. Also, don’t miss the Calendar at the bottom of this column – it is really filling up as our …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 6

February 9, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Hey, guess what? There are no new Security Bulletins this week (at least as of when we are going to press) and there are no new known security vulnerabilities for any part of the software stack of the IBM i platform. We doubt very much that Windows Server can ever say the same thing, and even Linux, which is the only volume operating system that matters, usually has something going on because, like IBM i and Windows Server, it is more than a kernel but a complete set of thousands of programs and tens of millions of lines of code. …
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Marketplace Study Shows How IBM i Language Use Evolves

To My Dearest IBM i . . .

SrinSoft CEO Ram Hari’s Long Road on IBM i

Four Hundred Monitor, February 9

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 6

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