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Tech Refreshes Bring SQL-Based Services Galore For IBM i and Db2

October 16, 2023 Alex Woodie

With the latest Technology Refreshes, IBM unleashed another round of new and updated IBM i Services aimed simplifying life for administrators, developers, and other IBM i professionals. The company also refreshed its slate of Db2 for i Services.

Over the past decade, IBM has been busy rejiggering how users interact with core components of the operating system. Instead of issuing traditional CL commands or working with low-level APIs, users can tap into new SQL-based IBM i services via Access Client Solutions (ACS) to accomplish the same tasks.

Db2 for i Database Architect Scott Forstie and his team have created hundreds …
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Take A Progressive Approach To DevOps

October 16, 2023 Jeff Tickner

As Gene Amdahl, the chief architect of the IBM System/360 mainframe, correctly observed and what was subsequently codified as Amdahl’s Law, any kind of system that implements any kind of process is only as fast as its slowest component. What is true of bottlenecks in human processes is equally true in systems design and also in that overlapping area known as DevOps – the confluence of application development and system operations.

If you can only be as fast as your slowest bottleneck, the converse is also true that you can speed up overall throughput of a workflow or a …
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Power10 Systems Get Storage And I/O Enhancements

October 16, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is a spring-fall cadence to the Power Systems platform from IBM, and so when the second batch if Technology Refreshes come around this time of year, we expect to see some hardware updates, too.

In recent years, we have been hoping – as always – that there would be a Power8+ or Power9+ processor enhancement around halfway through those processor family cycles, because that usually provides a price/performance kicker. But this has not happened during this generation as it did with the Power4+, Power5+, Power6+, and Power7+ generations. And we intend to put the pressure on IBM for a …
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Please Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

October 16, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Can you believe it? This is the tenth year that Fortra, formerly known as HelpSystems, is taking a survey of the IBM i customers base so it can put together a report to tell us what is going on in the community surrounding the platform that we are all depending upon in some fashion.

The IBM i Marketplace Survey and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey, which are both presented each February, are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly so since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 42

October 16, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Welcome back to work this week. IBM i 7.2 has two new PTF groups even though it has been in extended support from Big Blue since April 30, 2021. The IBM i 7.2 release is still on extended support until April 30, 2024, which is why the security and HIPER group PTFs have been updated for this release. Specifically, that is:
- SF99718 720 Group Security – level 124, which you can find out more about here.
- SF99719 720 Group HIPER – level 235, which you can find out more about there.
As we reported last week in The …
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Tech Refreshes Bring SQL-Based Services Galore For IBM i and Db2

Take A Progressive Approach To DevOps

Power10 Systems Get Storage And I/O Enhancements

Please Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 42

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