TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 55 Archives

IBM’s Competitive Analysis For Power10 Entry Machines

August 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Long gone are the days when IBM, and indeed most other server vendors, clamored to run TPC-C, SAP SD, and SPEC JVM transaction processing benchmark tests on their new machines to prove they had the performance and they had the bang for the buck to compete in the broader market.

To be fair, many of those tests had their flaws, allowing a certain amount of gaming of the benchmarks (as happened with the TPC-C and SPEC JVM tests) or not having official pricing attached to them (as happened with the SPEC JVM and SAP SD tests). Still, those benchmarks, as …
Read more
Power10 Midrange Machine: The Power E1050

August 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is fifth part of our in-depth coverage of the entry and midrange Power10 machines that were announced on July 12. This week, we end the hardware deep dives with a look at the Power E1050 midrange machine. This is one of the best and most capable servers that Big Blue has ever designed, and it is a damned shame that it does not run the IBM i operating system.

But, as we have pointed out before, it can any time IBM is convinced by enough of you that it should. The lack of IBM i support is a marketing …
Read more
IBM Puts The Finishing Touches On PowerHA For IBM i 7.5

August 15, 2022 Alex Woodie

If you have been waiting to use the new release of PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i 7.5, then we have good news for you: IBM has finally completed the paperwork necessary to enable customers to actually get it.

Unless you have a soft spot in your heart for IBM product IDs and feature codes (we know you’re out there), the August 9 software announcement doesn’t have a whole lot of actionable information. IBM says that it has updated the product “with the necessary product IDs and feature codes to complete the required ordering and upgrade structure,” which is IBM-speak for …
Read more
Guru: Regular Expressions, Part 2

August 15, 2022 Mike Larsen

In the first part of this series, I showed how to replace characters in a string using SQL and regular expressions. This time, I’ll show other regular expressions that are available for us to use. The regular expression functions I’ll show are REGEXP_COUNT and REGEXP_LIKE and the examples come from production programs that I’ve recently implemented.

In the first example (Figure 1), I want to get a count of the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string. To make this more interesting, I’m searching for two different patterns within a sting. To accomplish this objective, I used …
Read more
Get Your Security Education, And Not From The School Of Hard Knocks

August 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If there is one thing that is consistently hard for human beings, it is learning from the experience of others. When it comes to IBM i security, it is safe to say that many IBM i shops are in over their heads and they have to get all of the help they can to try to batten down the hatches against the many threats that all systems – even the IBM i platform – can be the victim of these days.

That’s why IBM i security software vendor Raz-Lee has put together a series of webinars in September to help …
Read more
IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 33

August 15, 2022 Doug Bidwell

First up, IBM has tweaked its temporary additional use policy for Power Systems software for migrations to Power E1080, Power E1050, and Power S1024 servers. You can read about it here.

Here is the significance of this. When you do an upgrade, you get 70 days from install to use the systems software for free. That can be extended once for 40 days, and then that can be extended again, once, for 3 days. After that, you have to beg for more if you need more time to do the upgrade. IBM doesn’t care about partitions, it’s the host …
Read more

IBM’s Competitive Analysis For Power10 Entry Machines

Power10 Midrange Machine: The Power E1050

IBM Puts The Finishing Touches On PowerHA For IBM i 7.5

Guru: Regular Expressions, Part 2

Get Your Security Education, And Not From The School Of Hard Knocks

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 33

Content archive

Recent Posts

Subscribe

Pages

Search