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  • Fall 2023 IBM i Tech Refresh Brings Something For Everyone

    October 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

    As expected, IBM yesterday unveiled its fall Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i, with updates starting to become available on November 17. IBM announced no new products as part of the fall 2023 TR cycle, but it did spread the love around by giving just about everybody something to cheer about in IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9.

    Lots of different products that make up the IBM i environment will see some pretty meaningful enhancements with this release. If you spend a lot of time in Navigator for i or ACS, you will see new stuff. We haven’t had …

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  • The Science Of Lifting And Shifting To The Cloud

    October 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Companies in Japan have a long and deep history with IBM computing systems, both its mainframe and its midrange platforms. And in some cases, they have moved from one to the other to maintain the IBM style of integrated systems while attaining the benefits of what many customers still consider the more integrated, less expensive, and easier to use platform that Big Blue offers: Namely, the AS/400 launched in 1988 and its progeny up through the current IBM i generation.

    Such is the case with Kosei Securities Co Ltd, which was founded way back in 1961 in Osaka, a …

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  • IBM Suddenly Pulls The Plug On Db2 Web Query for i

    October 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Well, that was a bit of a surprise, but to be fair we had a few days of forewarning about it before it happened so it really wasn’t. Yesterday, on October 10, IBM abruptly announced the end of marketing for all variations of the Db2 Web Query for i data analytics tool. You can read about it in announcement letter AD23-0691. But don’t get too excited. That announcement letter doesn’t tell you much.

    On Friday, October 6, we got a message from a director of information technology at a logistics and business services provider that his IBM business partner …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, October 11

    October 11, 2023 Jenny Thomas

    When it comes to AI, every day seems to bring some new potential catastrophe for humanity. Except today, because after saying AI would automate many back-office tasks and result in job loss for humans, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna now says it is not correct that increases in productivity have to lead to job losses. In fact, he believes AI will create more jobs that it will eliminate. In our Top Story below, Krishna explains IBM has plans to increase the number of software engineering and sales roles in the next three to four years. And then conceded there would be …

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  • Profound Bolsters Security, Authentication in Node.js Dev Tools

    October 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

    IBM i developers working with Profound Logic’s Node.js Web application and API development tools will be greeted with new security and authentication features when they move up to version 7, which was unveiled last month.

    The new features are found in version 7 releases of Profound Logic’s Profound.js, which enables developer to create Node.js-based applications that run on IBM i, as well as Profound API, a variant of its Node.js tool for writing API-based applications that run on IBM i and access its database.

    One of the changes that will greet users with Profound.js 7.0 is support for user-defined …

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