TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 72 Archives

AWS Inks Deal With Connectria To Have a Power Play

November 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The long road of history has not been made impassible by the charred marketing tanks and flaming sales assault vehicles of those who have tried to breach Fortress Rochester, but there are a whole lot of rusting machines off on the horizon cluttering the road and more than a few smoking machines nearby as well as some sizable holes in the ramparts out on that cornfield in Minnesota.

While the proprietary minicomputer businesses and the Unix server businesses of the competition of the AS/400 and IBM i platform have all been destroyed and that IBM is indeed the last bastion …
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IBM i Shops Have Alternatives to Db2 Web Query

November 15, 2023 Alex Woodie

The sudden demise of Db2 Web Query has sent customers looking for alternatives. The good news is that IBM i software vendors offer a number of pre-built solutions that can fit the bill.

Here are some potential business intelligence tools from vendors that could serve as replacements to Db2 Web Query. We’ll take a look at open source alternatives in a future article.

Cozzi Research SQL World

Cozzi Research develops two query tools for IBM i, including SQL iQuery and SQL Tools, and bundles them both in a single product called SQL World.

Cozzi positions SQL iQuery as a native …
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Eradani Lays Waste to API Payload Restrictions

November 15, 2023 Alex Woodie

Eradani Connect customers who need to pass large amounts of data to IBM i via external API calls have often been stymied by a built-in restriction in IBM i that limits their payload to a mere 16MB. Those customers will be thrilled that Eradani has launched a new big data connector that smashes those payload restrictions to smithereens.

Eradani Connect is a packaged application designed to simplify the creation and execution of API calls on IBM i. The software functions as a middleware layer that makes it easy for .NET, JavaScript, and Python developers to get access to the IBM …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 15

November 15, 2023 Jenny Thomas

If you’re looking for the next generation of IBM i, let us introduce you to the COMMON Education Foundation. CEF is dedicated to educating and engaging future IT generations. This week, CEF is hosting a virtual meet and greet to bring students together with working IBM i professionals and organizations who are seeking talent. CEF is a nonprofit supported by community contributions and volunteers who want to see the IBM i ecosystem continue to survive and thrive. Find out more about the meet and greet on November 16 in our Redbooks, White Papers, Blogs, Podcasts, and Other Resources section below. …
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Old PHP and Other PASE Apps Break on IBM i 7.5

November 15, 2023 Alex Woodie

Customers running old versions of PHP and other PASE applications like Node.JS may run into compatibility issues when running on IBM i 7.5. The issue is due to an upgrade in OpenSSL support in the latest release of the IBM i operating system, according to Alan Seiden.

Seiden, the principle of Seiden Group, first sounded the alarm in July about the problems running older, non-RPM versions of PHP and Node.JS on IBM i 7.5, which was upgraded from OpenSSL version 1.0.2 to version 1.1. In October, he recently published a blog post restating the issue.

“While [the OpenSSL upgrade …
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AWS Inks Deal With Connectria To Have a Power Play

IBM i Shops Have Alternatives to Db2 Web Query

Cozzi Research SQL World

Eradani Lays Waste to API Payload Restrictions

Four Hundred Monitor, November 15

Old PHP and Other PASE Apps Break on IBM i 7.5

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