TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 67 Archives

Power Systems Still Climbing Despite This Weird Economy

October 30, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in the old days, IBM used to talk about System z, Power Systems, and storage as separate things because they are, largely, separate things. Even if customers of the mainframe and Power platforms sometimes buy IBM storage for their machines, and even if some of that storage is actually based on Power platforms themselves.

But to be able to brag about the System z business every quarter and to make the rest of its Infrastructure group look like a bigger thing, Big Blue merged its Power Systems and Storage divisions into something it has called Distributed Systems for the …
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What IBM i Shops Are Thinking About Right Now

October 30, 2023 Ron Venzin

If you listen to the national and global media, it is hard to figure out what is really going on in the world at the strategic and tactical levels of individual companies. The global happenings are like climate trends, but each company generates its own weather and reacts to the weather generated by the customers and competitors in its own market. Or markets, as the case may be.

Because we all live in the weather as we are trying to keep an eye on the climate – people really do talk about the economic climate but no one talks about …
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Guru: The Transition From Modern RPG IV To Modern SQL

October 30, 2023 Bob Cozzi

Seven or eight years ago I was working with a client who needed more contemporary reporting than provided by the legacy Query/400 product. Initially I looked at Db2 Web Query and realized the documentation was sparse and the tutorials for most things, even “getting started” were virtually non-existent. It was also about four times more expensive than I felt it was worth to a P05 or P10 client. I mentioned the documentation issue to the folks at IBM and they agreed. Some of it was eventually resolved, but not enough in my opinion to get the masses to replace Query/400 …
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As I See It: Luddites

October 30, 2023 Victor Rozek

Having enjoyed a life of relative plenty, it’s easy to give myself more credit for the abundance I take for granted than I actually deserve. I habitually forget that almost everything I own, eat, drive, and wear was produced by someone else, often at great cost.

I had that thought recently as I looked at my iPhone, a miracle of technology, designed domestically, but assembled in foreign mega-factories by people whose range of choices is infinitely more limited than mine. I recalled something horrific that happened over a decade ago in a Chinese Apple assembly plant run by a Taiwanese …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 44

October 30, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Last week was busy, and this week is quiet when it comes to PTFs. With the release of Technology Refreshes coming out starting to roll out next week, this stands to reason.

Now, a note about the ESS Outage. Due to extensive infrastructure upgrades, the ESS website and all of its components, including Base Composer and Cloud Management Console functions, will be fully unavailable from November 3, 2023, at 11 a.m. UTC until November 6, 2023, at 3 a.m. UTC.

Now, there is also a security vulnerability, which you can read about in Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to …
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Power Systems Still Climbing Despite This Weird Economy

What IBM i Shops Are Thinking About Right Now

Guru: The Transition From Modern RPG IV To Modern SQL

As I See It: Luddites

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 44

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