TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 29 Archives

Inside IBM’s Efforts To Modernize The ISV Army

May 15, 2023 Alex Woodie

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” IBM executives must feel a bit like the eminently quotable Don Rumsfeld, former Secretary of the Department of Defense, as they marshal their assets in the battle for application supremacy. While some of Big Blue’s partners have honed their IBM i applications into modern weapons, others are fielding old equipment more suitable for a previous war.

It’s no state secret that Big Blue has a legacy problem on its hands in the IBM i world. When the …
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Thoroughly Modern: Unlocking the Full Potential Of Your IBM i Applications

May 15, 2023 Greg Patterson

IBM i is the backbone of mission critical applications for over 120,000 customers worldwide in every conceivable industry and company size, particularly with companies ranging from $50 million to $1 billion in annual revenues and specializing in manufacturing, distribution, financial services, and healthcare. In other words, IBM i supports a significant share of the global economy.

Although the IBM i platform is very productive, there are many things we can do to modernize our applications and provide more value to the business. But this is easier said than done. Some of the biggest challenges that that we face relate to …
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Guru: Find Unused Objects On IBM i Using SQL

May 15, 2023 Bob Cozzi

I have a client that uses SQL iQuery for nearly all “Report” type applications since SQL iQuery Version 2. They asked if they could create a report that listed all the unused objects in their user libraries. They also wanted the option to output to Excel-compatible format if desired.

Since SQL iQuery allows you to output the results of your SELECT statements to any of its supported formats, Excel-compatible is given.

Note: the code for this article is avaialble on GitHub at this link.

There were a couple of approaches. I could use our other product, SQL Tools OBJECT_LIST …
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The Inevitable Power9 Hardware Withdrawals Begin

May 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The high end Power10 machine, the Power E1080, has been out since September 2021 and the rest of the Power10 line was announced in July 2022, so the writing was on the wall for any Power9-based machines the minute that happened.

The ability for IBM to get, much less sell, Power9 chips even if it wanted to is also somewhat dubious, too. In October 2014, IBM sold off its Microelectronics division to Globalfoundries, itself a spinout of AMD’s foundry business five years earlier mashed up with Chartered Semiconductor and backed by the government of Abu Dhabi. Here’s the complication: …
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Inside IBM’s Efforts To Modernize The ISV Army

Thoroughly Modern: Unlocking the Full Potential Of Your IBM i Applications

Guru: Find Unused Objects On IBM i Using SQL

The Inevitable Power9 Hardware Withdrawals Begin

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