TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 25 Archives

IBM i at 35: A Walk Down Memory Lane

April 26, 2023 Alex Woodie

You may have heard that the IBM midrange platform is turning 35 this year. IBM has a number of events planned in honor of that milestone, culminating with a big birthday bash on June 21. IBM execs gave us a sneak peak of the festivities to come at this week’s POWERUp show in Denver, as well as a technical look back at exactly how we got here.

The day the AS/400 launched in 1988 was notable for several reasons. IBM i CTO Steve Will, who was just starting his distinguished engineering career at IBM, recalls lots of excitement in the …
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An Update On Power From POWERUp 2023

April 26, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

After so many years of not normal, it is comforting to do something to feel normal, like travel to what used to be the COMMON spring user conference and what is now called POWERUp, and in particular POWERUp 2023. (I am only using the official capitalization there because Jenny will change it during edit if I don’t.) I don’t want to leave the hill I live on, especially after so many years of traveling many times a month, but I must say that I enjoyed myself and had my share of boisterous conversations, beer, and food.

And work, of course. …
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COMMON POWERUp 2023 – Reporter’s Notebook

April 26, 2023 Alex Woodie

The international IBM i community descended upon Denver this week for COMMON’s annual POWERUp conference, which continues through tomorrow. By all accounts, the show was a success among attendees, educators, exhibitors, and IBM. Here are a few observations on the show.

COMMON’s top-notch education was the big draw in the High Plains of Colorado, with more than 300 sessions planned over the four-day event. Sessions containing information about the latest Technology Refreshes (TRs) of IBM i, including 7.5 TR2 and 7.4 TR8, were well attended, including those from IBM i CTO Steve Will and his business architects, including Scott …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 26

April 26, 2023 Jenny Thomas

This has been an exciting week for the IBM i ecosystem. The world’s largest IBM i conference POWERUp 2023 is wrapping up soon, and our team came back with lots of news that you will be reading in The Four Hundred in the coming weeks. If you were (or are) in Denver, you might have seen editors Tim Prickett Morgan and Alex Woodie hopping into sessions or roaming the expo floor. So while they finish up in Colorado and start working up the latest news, read on for the latest news from in and around the industry. More to come …
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What the Spring 2023 TR Brings Db2 for i

April 26, 2023 Alex Woodie

As the beating heart of the IBM i platform, the Db2 for i database received its share of attending from Rochester for the Spring 2023 Technology Refresh. Among the goodness becoming available next week are enhancements to the database proper as well as a gaggle of new and improved IBM i services.

One database enhancement common to both IBM i 7.5 TR2 and 7.4 TR8 is an improvement to SQL-based Web services using specific data types. The database and its SQL dialect already supported working with character large object (CLOBs) from the SQL HTTP REST functions, and provided commands for …
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IBM i at 35: A Walk Down Memory Lane

An Update On Power From POWERUp 2023

COMMON POWERUp 2023 – Reporter’s Notebook

Four Hundred Monitor, April 26

What the Spring 2023 TR Brings Db2 for i

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