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  • POWERUp Brings IBM i Base Back Together in the Big Easy

    May 25, 2022 Alex Woodie

    After two years of lockdowns and Zoom calls, IBM i professionals were joyful to be face to face with fellow users this week at the POWERUp conference in New Orleans. The celebration lasted all week, and spilled over onto Bourbon Street at times, but that didn’t get in the way of the primary mission: Getting educated on IBM i. And with the latest enhancements, there was a lot to learn.

    For many POWERUp 2022 attendees and ISVs, COMMON’s annual conference is the first physical event they’ve attended since the pandemic started back in March 2020. With the easing of …

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  • New Nav for i Brings New Stuff to You

    May 25, 2022 Alex Woodie

    With the recent launch of IBM i 7.5, IBM added several compelling new features to “New Nav,” the new version of IBM Navigator for i that debuted less than a year ago. Among the goodies that all you IBM i admins out there will get are support for the audit journal, integration with Content Manager OnDemand for i, and updates to Performance Data Investigator, among other additions.

    IBM launched a remake of IBM Navigator for i with last September’s Technology Refresh for 7.3 and 7.4. The company rewrote Navigator from the ground up in Angular, a JavaScript framework for building …

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  • Why Infor’s IDF Is Important for Customer Innovation

    May 25, 2022 Alex Woodie

    Among the remaining large ERP vendors targeting IBM i, Infor appears to be the most committed to ongoing development on the platform. A key element of that strategy is the Infor Development Framework (IDF), which plays a big role in extending the functionality in its IBM i-based ERP systems to meet customers’ specific needs.

    The IDF features most prominently in Infor’s long-term strategy for the ERP XA (MAPICS), ERP LX (BPCS), and ERP System 21 product lines, says Robert Russel, the vice president of product development at Infor.

    “We’re starting to try to essentially get that technology embedded into …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, May 25

    May 25, 2022 Jenny Thomas

    It’s an exciting week in the Jungle as COMMON’s POWERUp 2022 wraps up and the reporting begins. Our own Alex Woodie was on the show floor, and he will be bringing us all of the latest releases, news, and announcements in the coming weeks. So we have to kick off this week’s Monitor by re-directing you back to the Top Story directly from the Big Easy, but this is only the beginning of the coverage you can expect from Alex, who was busy attending sessions, meeting with vendors, and finding out what’s in store for the IBM i.

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 21

    May 25, 2022 Doug Bidwell

    Not to give you any work to do, but I am going to give you some work to do. There is a new service pack for system firmware level MH1010, and this service pack, which you can read about here, addresses a HIPER issue. Next, compression with the ZLIB algorithm with Geographic Mirroring synchronization is coming soon! You can find out more about it at this link. And finally, check out the infrastructure changes that are coming to IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central system, which might necessitate customer firewall and proxy setting changes, which you …

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