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40 Years Of DB2, But Even More For That No-Name Database Embedded In The System/38

October 2, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, Big Blue celebrated the 40^th anniversary of the launch of its Database 2 relational database management system for its venerable System/370, System 308X, and System/390 mainframes. It is now called Db2, because marketing people can’t leave anything alone, and even though we now have this thing called Db2 for i, IBM didn’t mention this red-headed stepchild of a relational database as part of its celebration.

Not even once. And that’s just fine by us because the integrated relational database management system that has been the heart of our venerable System/38 and its progeny was never DB2/400 or …
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API Dev Tool Delivers For Trucking Outfit

October 2, 2023 Alex Woodie

When the IT leaders at Ward Transport & Logistics set out to find a product that would allow them to call outbound APIs from their IBM i server for a new dynamic pricing system, they had an inkling of what they wanted. But when they looked for an API development tool in the IBM i market, they were surprised at what they found.

From its headquarters in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Ward Transport & Logistics provides less than truckload (LTL) service to customers throughout the region. The company’s 1,600 employees help Ward’s customers move freight with a fleet of 750 power units …
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Guru: TryIT – You’ll Like It

October 2, 2023 Ted Holt

I have watched children play Whac-a-mole, but I’ve never played it myself, perhaps because the game unpleasantly reminds me of programs that I have had to work on. I fix one bug, only to see another bug rear its ugly little head. Life’s too short to endure such nonsense. Besides, it is embarrassing for someone to tell me that the program I supposedly just fixed is still broken.

Suppose you’re working on a 4,000-line RPG program and you comment out lines 650-660. What you don’t realize at the time is that a variable used in line 2755 has to …
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It’s Time To Tell Us How It Is And What You’re Doing

October 2, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The IBM i Marketplace Survey and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly so since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other IT market researchers and consultancies have long since stopped tracking Power Systems in any kind of detail and certainly don’t spend a lot of time on the IBM i portion of it.

Big Blue itself may have lots of insight into its customer base, but it certainly shares very little of that information with the IBM i community. (We get …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 40

October 2, 2023 Doug Bidwell

In case you have been sleeping under a rock, or under an apple tree, or under a bridge, the IBM i 7.3 operating system release reached its end of standard support this Saturday on September 30. So now if you plan to keep IBM i 7.3 in production, you have to pay for an extended support Software Maintenance contract with Big Blue. You also have to do the math on whether it is worth it to hang back or to move to IBM i 7.5, which has been generally available since May 2022.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups …
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40 Years Of DB2, But Even More For That No-Name Database Embedded In The System/38

API Dev Tool Delivers For Trucking Outfit

Guru: TryIT – You’ll Like It

It’s Time To Tell Us How It Is And What You’re Doing

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 40

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