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The Subscription Pricing For The IBM i Stack So Far

September 18, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been following the transformation of the pricing and packaging of the IBM i operating system, its integrated database, and the suite of Licensed Program Products, or LPPs, that are commonly installed alongside of the operating system to create a mostly complete system software suite. Last week, we talked about how the machines in the P05 and P10 software tiers would be moving to all-subscription pricing, and this week we are following up with the pricing information we have been able to gather to date as well as talking to Big Blue about the changes.

IBM has been clear …
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Facing The Challenges Of Upgrading Old Systems With The Cloud

September 18, 2023 Jason Hardy

If you are one of the many IBM i shops that has always created its own applications and that has a long history of investing in the AS/400, iSeries, System i, and IBM i platforms over the past three and a half decades at reasonably regular intervals to keep the hardware and the systems software current, you have it relatively easy and we definitely want to talk to you about your move to the cloud and how we might help.

But if you are one of the many OS/400 and IBM i shops that have, for myriad reasons, gotten stuck …
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Guru: Generating XML Using SQL – The Easy Way

September 18, 2023 Bob Cozzi

There are many verbose methods of generating XML. You can:
- Write your own RPG code
- Using a free or third-party API
- Use SQL iQuery OUTPUT(*XML) option
- Use the built-in SQL XML functions such as XMLELEMENT
I’m sure there are others, but these seem to be the most popular.

For years I had been using the XMLELEMENT approach; a rather verbose set of XML function built into Db2 for i SQL. In fact, SQL iQuery’s OUTPUT(*XML) is based on that feature. It simply regenerates your SQL statement using XMLELEMENT statements for each output column/field name.

But if you’re using something IBM …
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Rocket Buys Data Integration Provider B.O.S.

September 18, 2023 Alex Woodie

Rocket Software has announced the acquisition of B.O.S., a German provider of data integration software. While the software company targets primarily the mainframe with its data integration solutions, Rocket says it’s considering broadening support to IBM i.

B.O.S. was founded more than 30 years ago to develop data integration solutions that connect the IBM mainframe to other systems. It boasts more than 1,200 installations in 25 countries, including Fortune 50 firms as well as government organizations.

The company’s flagship product, called tcVision, helps customers move data from their mainframe sources, such as Db2, IMS, VSAM files, ADABAS, and CA DATACOM, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 37

September 18, 2023 Doug Bidwell

There are a few things you can count on in life. Death. Taxes. Coffee. Beer. The love of a good woman. And a seemingly endless barrage of security vulnerabilities for every computing platform on Earth. There are a bunch of the latter that are new to the IBM i platform this week.

First, we have Security Bulletin: OpenSSL and OpenSSH for IBM i are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution, denial of service, and security restrictions bypass due to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can find out more about at this link. The IBM i PTF number for 5733-SC1 contains the …
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The Subscription Pricing For The IBM i Stack So Far

Facing The Challenges Of Upgrading Old Systems With The Cloud

Guru: Generating XML Using SQL – The Easy Way

Rocket Buys Data Integration Provider B.O.S.

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 37

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