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IBM and Fujifilm Unveil 150 TB Tape Drive

September 13, 2023 Alex Woodie

Organizations will be able to store up to 150 TB of compressed data on a single cartridge when they select the new TS1170 IBM tape drive and 3592 JF tape cartridge developed by Fujifilm. The unveiling of the world’s most voluminous tape storage system two weeks ago shows that tape has a lot of life as a medium for mass data storage.

The new TS1170 tape drive is the sixth generation of IBM’s high-end, enterprise-class tape technology, which is supported on IBM i and other enterprise servers. It’s capable of saving data to the new 3592 JF tape cartridge …
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Merlin Subscriptions Picking Up, IBM and ARCAD Say

September 13, 2023 Alex Woodie

Hundreds of IBM i shops have adopted Merlin since it was released last year, according to IBM and ARCAD, which jointly developed the development and code management tool. The addition of a subscription offering in early 2023 significantly bolstered sales activity, the companies say.

“In this last six months or so, we have really seen it tick up, which is exactly what we are expecting,” says IBM i Product Manager Alison Butterill, on the Merlin adoption curve.

Sales were a bit slow coming out of the gate for Merlin, the novel, browser-based environment for application development and change management on …
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New IBM i User Group For The US Midwest Formed

September 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here is something that we don’t see every day in IBM i Land: The formation of a new user group. But that is what Briteskies, an IBM i consultancy and application development and modernization firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, has done by launching the IBM i Mid-West User Group, or iMWUG for short.

“We founded this group to help fill a gap that we noticed in the geographical locations of IBM i user groups,” Leah Avner, IBM i coordinator at Briteskies, tells The Four Hundred. “While Ohio seems to have once had a user group, it doesn’t seem to …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 13

September 13, 2023 Jenny Thomas

The team at IT Jungle has been part of the “work at home” crew since the beginning. Not to age ourselves, but this goes back a couple of decades, so long before we all sheltered in place for the pandemic. Now granted, some jobs, like news writing for instance, do require some solitude, but companies that formerly had employees gathering in an office are looking to re-establish that as the norm – including IBM. Our Top Story this week is about IBM requiring all software division employees who work within 50 miles of an office to report to work at …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 36

September 13, 2023 Doug Bidwell

This issue of the IBM i PTF Guide was put together the Sunday before the Labor Day holiday in America, and as you might imagine, there is not a lot going on. But there are a few things.

First, the DIG or NSLOOKUP tool, which is used to validate DNS entries and which has been around for a while, doesn’t work anymore without PTFs. You can find out more at this link, and the PTFs you need to apply to make it work are as follows:
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• V7R5M0: SI84411
• V7R4M0: SI84419
• V7R3M0: SI84438
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And of course, there …
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IBM and Fujifilm Unveil 150 TB Tape Drive

Merlin Subscriptions Picking Up, IBM and ARCAD Say

New IBM i User Group For The US Midwest Formed

Four Hundred Monitor, September 13

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 36

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