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How The Latest TRs Bolster App Dev For IBM i

October 17, 2022 Alex Woodie

From Merlin and VSCode to RDi and RPG, good IBM i boys and girls who do their own development will get new toys to play with before Christmas, thanks to a range of new features and functions unveiled by IBM last week as part of its latest Tech Refresh for IBM i.

The introduction of the IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, or Merlin, was the big attraction this spring with the launch of IBM i version 7.5 and 7.4 TR6 (it was later made available for IBM i 7.3). The offering, which combines a lightweight VSCode development environment …
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If You Aren’t Automating Testing, You Aren’t Doing DevSecOps

October 17, 2022 Andrew Clark

If you are going to automate application development and operations like a hyperscaler, it is not as simple as moving code to a Git repository and then you are done. Security is critical to DevOps – so much that people are now calling it DevSecOps to highlight that fact. The “Sec” in DevSecOps impacts several phases in the development lifecycle – from code quality and security checking to developer-side unit tests and, further downstream, functional regression tests. Provided they are automated, each technique brings major savings in development by “shifting defects left.” In this article, we’ll explore how.

Today, …
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In The IBM i Trenches With: CloudFirst

October 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There aren’t that many companies that are in the IBM i business and that are publicly traded, but Data Storage Corporation, based in Melville, New York, out on Long Island, is one of them. Just down the road from another big software giant with a legacy history – Computer Associates, which is now part of semiconductor design company Broadcom.

Hal Schwartz, president at CloudFirst, got a bachelor’s degree in business administration from California State University in San Bernardino back in 1988, and worked in sales at CAC Leasing outside of New York City before starting his own leasing company, called …
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Some Power Systems Hardware Tweaks

October 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Whenever there is a software update on the Power Systems line, IBM usually has a few hardware announcements to toss into the mix. And last week was no exception, although there were not any new systems announced. Just tweaks to existing ones.

In announcement letter 122-084, we see that IBM is reselling Nvidia’s two port, 100 Gb/sec ConnectX-6 DX network interface card on the Power10 lineup. This is a very popular NIC out there in Server Land, and in fact, it has been in short enough supply in the past year and change to actually have an impact on …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 42

October 17, 2022 Doug Bidwell

The hot news this week, which we have reported about previously and which we will be drilling down into more deeply, is that the Fall 2022 Tech Refresh updates for IBM i have been announced and will be generally available on December 2. The theme from IBM is “Let’s create a new level of integrated simplicity,” and you can see more about IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 1 at this link and more about IBM i 7.4 Technology Refresh 7 at that link.

Keep checking out The Four Hundred as we drill down into new details related to the …
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How The Latest TRs Bolster App Dev For IBM i

If You Aren’t Automating Testing, You Aren’t Doing DevSecOps

In The IBM i Trenches With: CloudFirst

Some Power Systems Hardware Tweaks

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 42

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