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The Scoop On The Full Subscription Power S1014 With IBM i

September 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Even before the Power10 entry and midrange servers were announced by Big Blue on July 12, we did a thought experiment at the end of June about a rumored hardware-software-maintenance bundle on the single-socket Power S1014 server aimed at IBM i customers with a single monthly subscription price. And for fun, that thought experiment compared the monthly cost of a high-end iPhone smartphone with cell service and a data plan – somewhere between $75 and $80 – to what we expected such a full subscription-based, on premises Power S1014 would cost. We figured it would be around $50 per IBM …
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Thoroughly Modern: Four Ways Staff Augmentation Is Helping IT Get Things Done

September 12, 2022 Roger Betancourt

According to a recent report by McKinsey, 87 percent of organizations are facing or are expected to face skill shortages in the next few years. The biggest contributor to this pressing issue has been the impending retirement of the Baby Boomer generation, reducing the availability of skilled and specialized workers.

Technology might be the most affected sector, according to McKinsey –– 46 percent of the executives surveyed listed IT, mobile, and/or web design and management as one of the highest areas of concern. Moreover, 73 percent of organizations will have difficulties recruiting technologists and filling open tech positions.

This ongoing …
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Guru: The SND-MSG Op Code And Message Subfiles

September 12, 2022 Ted Holt

If you’re one of the many IBM i programmers who still writes green-screen applications, think about how your programs communicate with the users. How do you tell a user that a value that he’s just entered is invalid, or that he needs to press a command key to proceed? I’ve seen several methods, but a common one — and my favorite — is to communicate through a message subfile.

The nice thing about message subfiles is that I can report two or more messages at one time. I like the computer to find as many errors as possible and let …
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IBM Rejiggers RPM Repos for Open Source Software

September 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM has made a change to how it distributes open source software for the IBM i platform. Instead of using a single RPM repository to distribute the software for all release of the IBM i operating system, as has been the case for the past five years, IBM is now delivering software through operating system-specific releases. The change was made to address difficulties that have arisen in the use of a single repo for all releases of IBM i, the company says.

IBM rolled out its new RPM (which stands for Red Hat Package Manager) back in 2018 as a …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 36

September 12, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Let’s get right into it. There are PDF transform issues with IBM i 7.5. This issue was encountered by our friends in San Diego: Thank you, Nancy, for sharing! They were receiving “Transformation task cancelled due to a print fidelity error” when converting from SCS to PDF. IBM issued the following PTFs to fix the issue:
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PTF ID                                  
SI79773	 5770SS1  
SI79689  5770TS1
SI79684  5770TS1
```
Now, let’s turn to Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to July 2022 CPU plus deferred CVE-2021-2163. You can see more at this …
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The Scoop On The Full Subscription Power S1014 With IBM i

Thoroughly Modern: Four Ways Staff Augmentation Is Helping IT Get Things Done

Guru: The SND-MSG Op Code And Message Subfiles

IBM Rejiggers RPM Repos for Open Source Software

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 36

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