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Guild Mortgage Takes The 20-Year Option For Modernization

June 27, 2022 Alex Woodie

When Kurt Reheiser returned to the IBM i server after a 15-year hiatus away the platform, things weren’t a lot different than how he left them. “My skills were more relevant than I thought they would be,” the former RPG developer said during last month’s POWERUp 2022 conference. Now as the CIO of a multi-billion-dollar company called Guild Mortgage, Reheiser is overseeing a modernization initiative that will keep building on the company’s successful history of custom development on the IBM i platform.

Reheiser shared his and his company’s IT journey during a keynote address at COMMON’s annual user conference …
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IBM i Licensing, Part 3: Can The Hardware Bundle Be Cheaper Than A Smartphone?

June 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

How many monthly iPhone bills is a Power10-based entry server worth?

Let me ask this another way: Which will be more expensive: Providing a seat for a corporate user of an IBM i system, with a complete set of hardware and systems software, or providing an iPhone 13 Pro Max with a data plan and cellular service to each end user? Both are premium products with premium features.

We don’t know, but as the July 12 Power10 announcements are approaching, we are getting closer and closer to finding out.

Let’s talk about the iPhone 13 Pro Max first because we …
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Guru: The Finer Points of Exit Points

June 27, 2022 Bruce Bading

Many years ago, we received a call from an IBM i customer stating that all exit points were gone and the QAUDJRN and receivers were missing. Then the question, “Do you think we’ve been hacked?” Truth was, the exit points weren’t gone; the associated programs had been de-registered. Conclusion, they had most likely been compromised.

The IBM i platform is a very securable system that can be secured (Secure vs Secured – What’s the difference?, WikiDiff), if you take steps to secure it.

On the IBM i, a limited number of functions provide an exit so that your …
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Big Blue Tweaks IBM i Pricing Ahead Of Subscription Model

June 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in May, Big Blue said that it was going to be simplifying the IBM i stack ahead of a move to subscription pricing for systems software as well as hardware that runs it. To do that means zeroing out prices for a slew of things that had price tags on them formerly.

In announcement letter 322-406 on June 1, IBM made good on that promise to move a bunch of software from “separately charged” to “entitled with IBM i status, which we outlined in our coverage on May 16. The news here is not just that IBM followed …
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We Still Want IBM i On The Impending Power E1050

June 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In March last year, as Big Blue was finishing up the development of the Power10 family of Power Systems machines, we wrote an essay explaining that we wanted IBM i to be a first-class operating system citizen on the four-socket Power E1050 machine, which we finally expect to see launch on July 12 if the rumors are correct.

We never did like that IBM i was not supported on the Power8-based Power E850 four-socket server, and then also not supported on the Power9-based Power E950 four-socket server. And we equally do not like the fact that, if the rumors we …
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Guild Mortgage Takes The 20-Year Option For Modernization

IBM i Licensing, Part 3: Can The Hardware Bundle Be Cheaper Than A Smartphone?

Guru: The Finer Points of Exit Points

Big Blue Tweaks IBM i Pricing Ahead Of Subscription Model

We Still Want IBM i On The Impending Power E1050

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