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Readiness Assessment Accelerates Moving IBM i Workloads To The Cloud

November 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are on the order of 120,000 unique IBM i customers in the world, and the one thing they all have in common is that they are absolutely – each and every one of them – unique. There are no two customers alike because they have lots of homegrown code, or a mix of their own code and that of an ISV, or maybe they have a heavily customized stack from an ISV.

We defy you to find one customer – even one – that is running any software from a third party as it is, out of the shrink …
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Thoroughly Modern: Digital Solutions For IBM i And Beyond

November 7, 2022 Marcel Sarrasin and Scott Gingerysty

IT leaders need to develop strategies that address business goals but also look ahead to a changing economic climate and disruptions. Digital innovation (web, mobile, APis, cloud, etc.) is one of the fastest growing areas of IT. And it’s no wonder – taking on these initiatives while using an iterative approach can deliver quick wins and attainable near-term impacts. This allows organizations to invest in ways that are sustainable.

As organizations look to new business models, seeing technology as a way to accomplish business objectives is the right approach. Competition, market disruption, growth, cost optimization and responding to client needs …
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Momentum Builds For Code For IBM i

November 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

Energy and excitement are building in the IBM i development community thanks to Code for IBM i, the VS Code extension that enables users to write and edit RPG and COBOL code in a Web browser. Spearheaded by Liam Allan, who now works for IBM, the lightweight alternative to RDi is approaching critical mass among IBM i developers desperate for something new.

For many years, IBM i shops had few options available to them when it comes to developing ILE applications for IBM i. IBM’s default recommendation was Rational Developer for i, the Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) that …
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As I See It: Second Responder

November 7, 2022 Victor Rozek

If a thousand people were asked to complete the sentence: “The world could sure use more …” they would doubtless come up with a variety of thoughtful and compelling answers. But I’m willing to bet not one in a thousand would say “cockroaches.”

Nonetheless, advances in technology and miniaturization all but guarantee robotic roaches will be part of our supporting cast in what is rapidly becoming a sci-fi-esque future. Apparently, researchers have long had a keen interest in what insects do and how they do it, although one would think what roaches do shouldn’t be much of a mystery. They …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 45

November 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Hello good people of IBM i Land. There’s a security vulnerability you need to take a look at to see if it affects your system, and a whole bunch of PTF patches for all kinds of things. Let’s start with the vulnerability, which you can see in Security Bulletin: Zlib for IBM i is vulnerable to a buffer overflow issue during inflate (CVE-2022-37434) and which you can find out more about here.

This is not the same vulnerability in Zlib for IBM i that we told you about last week, so don’t think we are a skipping record here. …
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Readiness Assessment Accelerates Moving IBM i Workloads To The Cloud

Thoroughly Modern: Digital Solutions For IBM i And Beyond

Momentum Builds For Code For IBM i

As I See It: Second Responder

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 45

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