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ALL400S Survey Continues, Goes International

June 26, 2023 Alex Woodie

John Rockwell, the driving force behind the ALL400S survey, was close to giving it up. Fewer and fewer people were taking the survey, and so he started telling people this would probably be his last go around. Turns out, that notice may have helped to spur a surge of interest in the survey, which is now underway. And now he’s taking the survey international, too.

Rockwell, an independent, semi-retired IBM i programmer from Florida has been trying to accumulate a list of every IBM i shop on the planet. He shares this work openly through his ALL400s website and the …
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Integrate 2023, The Lyrics

June 26, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When I was at the POWERUp conference in Denver back in late April along with my co-editor, Alex Woodie, we were sitting in the opening keynote address when Alison Butterill, IBM i offering manager, and Steve Will, IBM i chief architect, were on stage talking about the AS/400 launch and how the platform has evolved over time, there was a point in the presentation when a slide went up that listed some of the key features of the platform. I remember seeing “Innovate” and “Integrate” at the top of the list, and that sent my brain down an internal monologue …
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Why IBM i Remote Managed Services Is The Future Of IT Support

June 26, 2023 Christine McDowell

Struggling to manage and safeguard your IBM i systems? Do you find yourself dealing with retiring and limited IBM i resources and unable to support growing business demands? Well, you are not alone.

According to a recent Fresche survey, more than 70 percent of organizations that rely on IBM i are dealing with resource retirement and IT backlog — with many administrators unable to even take a vacation. IT leaders shared that they are single threaded with limited abilities to keep up and no time to innovate.

These sentiments were echoed at this year’s POWERUp 2023 conference in Colorado where …
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Making Git Part of Your Modernization Strategy

June 26, 2023 Daniel Magid

Maybe the most important part of your IBM i modernization strategy should be modernizing the tools you are using to develop and maintain your applications. Most of the application development world has moved to tools centered around using Git for version control. There is no reason IBM i developers cannot do the same thing. IBM is solidly behind this strategy with their new Merlin product and most of the change management vendors have some kind of Git integration.

By adopting Git for version control, IBM i applications can be managed with the same tools that are being used for development …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 26

June 26, 2023 Doug Bidwell

In this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, I have added a Ref tab, which contains general, pertinent information not found elsewhere in the Guide. I also wanted to point out that with a PTF for Advanced Job Scheduler server side, which is SI83469 and which is included in HTTP group PTF update June 2023, AJS will support processing of Set ASP Group when enabled. Finally, IASP support built in!

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:
- Backup Recovery Solutions
- IBM HTTP Server for
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ALL400S Survey Continues, Goes International

Integrate 2023, The Lyrics

Why IBM i Remote Managed Services Is The Future Of IT Support

Making Git Part of Your Modernization Strategy

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 26

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