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Database And Developer Enhancements In IBM i 7.5 And 7.4 TR6

May 9, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM has made a number of enhancements to the Db2 for i database with the launch of IBM i 7.5, which becomes generally available tomorrow. It also is bringing new features for developers, including changes to Integrated Web Services (IWS), which will improve REST integration.

Most of the new features added to Db2 for i are only available in IBM i 7.5, which will give users a reason to adopt it. However, there are a few enhancements added in IBM i 7.4 Technology Release 6, which doesn’t ship until May 24.

As we previously reported, IBM i 7.5 expands …
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Thoroughly Modern: The Real Top 5 Challenges For IBM i Shops Today

May 9, 2022 Christine McDowell

The only way to really find out what is on people’s minds is to ask them, and maybe you need to ask them two or three times and take an average. As a supplier of development, modernization, and security tools and services, we ask a lot of questions and we do a lot of assessments for IBM i customers, and we look at any and all surveys that anyone does and synthesize this to help drive our business.

We have been through a series of surveys of our own as well as ones that we have helped promote or sponsored …
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In The IBM i Trenches With: Chilli IT

May 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are many strengths in the IBM i platform besides its hardware and software architecture or the sophistication and ease of programming embodied in its development tools. The diversity of its partner ecosystem is another strength.

As we pointed out last March with the launch of our ongoing In The IBM i Trenches series, globally there are thousands of resellers, each serving tens to hundreds to sometimes thousands of customers, as well as thousands of suppliers of third party maintenance, of technical support, of programming and system management services, and now of hosting and cloud computing. We want to get …
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Power Private Cloud Gets More Cloudy With Pricing Tweaks

May 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As promised two years ago, Big Blue has been gradually and steadily transforming from a business model where it sells machines and perpetual software licenses and support for the both of them to a model where it sells capacity based on usage like a big cloud – like its own IBM Cloud – does.

As part of the May 3 announcements, IBM has made a few changes to its Power Private Cloud Solution – the word “solution” has become basically useless in the context of IT, just like “offering” has, and I tell writers that I work with that if …
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Power9 Servers Get Updated Flash Drives

May 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM may be on the verge of launching its entry and midrange Power10 servers in July, as we reported last week, but that doesn’t mean it will not continue to sell Power9-based machines for now and out past the general availability of the Power10-based systems.

To that end, in announcement letter 122-042, IBM is adding new enterprise-grade flash drives in the U.2 form factor that is roughly analogous to a 2.5-inch disk drive. These new drives, which come from an unnamed source, support the NVM-Express protocol that speeds up flash drives (because they stop talking the SCSI disk …
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Database And Developer Enhancements In IBM i 7.5 And 7.4 TR6

Thoroughly Modern: The Real Top 5 Challenges For IBM i Shops Today

In The IBM i Trenches With: Chilli IT

Power Private Cloud Gets More Cloudy With Pricing Tweaks

Power9 Servers Get Updated Flash Drives

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