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Global COBOL Growth Spurs Reevaluation of ‘Legacy’ Assets

February 16, 2022 Alex Woodie

COBOL is supposed to be a dead language, tied (mostly) as it is to the IBM mainframe, which is also dead. But according to a recent survey from Micro Focus, the amount of COBOL code in the world actually is expanding. What in COBOL is going on?

Micro Focus commissioned the research group Vanson Bourne to evaluate the state of COBOL use in the world, and the results of that research were released on February 4. Perhaps the most eye-popping figure references the title of the report, “How much COBOL is really out there?”

The answer: Anywhere from 775 to …
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Infor Customers Share IBM i Stories

February 16, 2022 Alex Woodie

Infor is often disparaged for being a graveyard of IBM i ERP products. But at the recent Inforum Digital event, three Infor customers shared why they’re bullish on their IBM i ERP systems from Infor.

Badger Meters is a publicly traded manufacturer of water meters based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The 115-year-old company has more than 1,600 employees and has relied on Infor ERP LX system and BPCS predecessors to automate its operations for many years.

According to Jim Reinardy, the director of information systems for Badger Meters, ERP LX has met the company’s needs, which has included a number of …
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IBM Launches Ansible On Power Solution

February 16, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM last week officially announced the Ansible Automation Platform is available for Power servers. The offering brings certified endpoint collection modules for IBM i, AIX, and Linux running on Power.

Ansible was originally developed to be a lightweight and reliable configuration management system for servers, applications, networks, containers, security, and the cloud. The software, which Red Hat acquired in 2015 (before Red Hat was subsequently snapped up by IBM), was designed to model customers’ IT infrastructure and manage it with an agentless approach.

The primary interface that administrators use to define actions with Ansible are playbooks based on YAML files. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 16

February 16, 2022 Jenny Thomas

Some of you may be noticing a need for a chief data officer within your organization, although it appears to be more common to see that role added to an existing employee’s responsibilities. The task of creating business value from data isn’t as easy as it might sound, but it is something nearly every organization would like to do. This week, we’re sharing an article about what to look for in a CDO, as well as a link to the page of IBM’s CDO, which should offer some food for thought if that’s a position you, or your company, is …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 7

February 16, 2022 Doug Bidwell

To help you deal with the Log4j security vulnerability, we have created a supplemental spreadsheet as a companion to the IBM i PTF Guide that has the latest information on what you need to worry about and do about it when it comes to this vulnerability.

You can down the Log4j spreadsheet at this link.

And just a reminder that there is a new version of Navigator for i, which you can find out more about at this link. This modern user interface can be accessed from http://hostname:2002/Navigator.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i …
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Global COBOL Growth Spurs Reevaluation of ‘Legacy’ Assets

Infor Customers Share IBM i Stories

IBM Launches Ansible On Power Solution

Four Hundred Monitor, February 16

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 7

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