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Is COBOL on IBM i Experiencing a Renaissance?

January 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

There is no doubt that RPG is the dominant language when it comes to IBM i development. But there are some indications that more interest in COBOL may be brewing in IBM i circles, particularly among customers of a certain size and industry segment.

COBOL has been on the mind of Dan Magid, the CEO of data integration software developer Eradani. That will happen when large banks come out of the blue and ask you to support COBOL in your product, which Eradani did with its data integration middleware for IBM i.

“What’s been interesting for us is, we …
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Midrange Optimism for In-Person Events in 2022

January 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

If you’re hankering to reconnect with your IBM i colleagues in person this year, we have good news for you: In-person events are set to make a comeback in 2022. COMMON’s annual POWERUp conference in New Orleans in May tops the list, but many other groups are making their physical comebacks, too.

COMMON president Gordon Leary is eager to bring the world’s largest IBM i user group back into the physical fold starting May 23, when the POWERUp 2022 conference kicks off at the New Orleans Marriott. So are a lot of COMMON members who haven’t seen each other in …
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Companies Still Grappling with Economic Woes

January 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

We’re nearly 23 months into the pandemic, but COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on how we work and play. Companies that make and move goods — a core constituency of the IBM i installed base — have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-induced kink in the supply chain, but rising prices and inflation aren’t far behind.

The United States is in the middle of a remarkable economic period that few experts (if any) predicted. For that, you can thank your friendly neighborhood coronavirus, which put into motion a series of events, many with unforeseeable consequences, that continues to ripple …
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Listen In To The 8th Annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Webcast

January 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It’s that time of the year again when HelpSystems reveals the results of its annual IBM i Marketplace Survey, which believe it or not has now been done eight years in a row. The survey provides a snapshot into the thinking of IBM i shops all over the world as they contemplate the strategic and tactical issues relating to their mission critical applications and the security, resilience, capacity, economics, and long-term viability of the IBM i platform that supports them.

Personally, I sincerely wish that HelpSystems had been doing this survey since the AS/400 was launched in 1988, because it …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 4

January 26, 2022 Doug Bidwell

A new Oracle JCE Code Signing CA was recently implemented in the IBM JDK to resolve APAR IJ26310. Specifically, this is related to IBM JDK 8.0 SR6 FP25, JDK 7.1 SR4 FP75, and JDK 7.0 SR10 FP75, whereby Java applications running on the IBM i operating system might encounter the error messages “JCE is not installed properly” or “JCE cannot authenticate the provider XX” or “xyz.jar is not signed by a trusted signer” after upgrading to the following IBM i Java Group PTF level or newer.

The following IBM i Java Group PTF levels install 8.0 SR6 FP25.
- Release 7.1:
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Is COBOL on IBM i Experiencing a Renaissance?

Midrange Optimism for In-Person Events in 2022

Companies Still Grappling with Economic Woes

Listen In To The 8th Annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Webcast

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 4

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