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IBM Unveils Fall 2022 Tech Refreshes for IBM i

October 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM yesterday announced Technology Refreshes for its two most current IBM i operating systems, including 7.5 and 7.4. Security continues to be a big driver of new functionality with 7.5 TR1 and 7.4 TR7. But the fall TRs bring a bevy of enhancements across all areas, including the database, IBM i services, open source, application development, and analytics, among others.

Security has been the number one concern for CIOs for a few years now, and IBM has responded with a number of new features in IBM i. Some of the new security features exist in IBM i Navigator, the GUI …
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IBM i Salesforce API Integration Without Writing A Single Line Of Code

October 12, 2022 Miranda VanHorn

APIs creation is often confusing, time-consuming, and overwhelming. This is due to many IT leaders believing that complex problems require complex solutions. The reality is that API can be surprisingly simple. Sadly, many API solutions promised ease but profited by making it complicated with user-based pricing, high customization fees, significant maintenance agreements, and so forth.

There is a better way, and it’s paved in fully transparent, highly automated, and highly scalable low code. Which you can learn all about here:

Now, you can create and deploy Salesforce APIs – and indeed, other kinds of APIs – in days, not months …
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Kyndryl Wants to Connect Your IBM i to Microsoft Azure

October 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

Kyndryl, the former IBM division known as Global Technology Services (GTS), last week unveiled an expanded partnership with Microsoft that will see it helping IBM i and System z customers integrate their applications and data with Microsoft Azure, specifically its low-code, no-code development platform called Power.

Kyndryl’s alliance with Microsoft will make it easier for companies to leverage the valuable data and business logic contained in their midrange and mainframe assets as they develop new applications in the Microsoft Power Platform, which is a low-code, no-code development environment.

“Basically, it provides a low-code, no-code environment in Azure for programmers,” …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 12

October 12, 2022 Jenny Thomas

Some weeks, a particular topic or story is trending. And other weeks, there’s just a lot going on. We’ve got a hodgepodge of stories for you in Monitor this week. And not just in the Top Stories. There’s some sales going on you might want to take a look at, and we’re still asking everyone to take the annual Marketplace Survey, which gives us a better look at what’s really going on around our ecosystem. Plus, there’s lots of good stuff in today’s issue you won’t want to miss, including Alex Woodie’s look at the unexpected Fall Technology Refreshes for …
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Various Power Systems Software Tweaks Besides The TR Updates

October 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is fall IBM i software stack refresh week. As we report about elsewhere in this issue, IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 1 and IBM i 7.4 Technology Refresh 7 came out today, and as is Big Blue’s custom in recent years, other parts of the IBM i software stack also got some nips and tucks and tweaks, too.

In announcement letter 222-279, we find the usual agglomeration of updates to the PowerVM server virtualization hypervisor, the PowerVC implementation of the OpenStack cloud controller, the virtual Hardware Management Console, and the Cloud Management Console.

With PowerVM, IBM wanted to …
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IBM Unveils Fall 2022 Tech Refreshes for IBM i

IBM i Salesforce API Integration Without Writing A Single Line Of Code

Kyndryl Wants to Connect Your IBM i to Microsoft Azure

Four Hundred Monitor, October 12

Various Power Systems Software Tweaks Besides The TR Updates

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