TFH Volume: 34 Issue: 05 Archives

Power Systems Grows For The Second Year In A Row

January 29, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here at The Four Hundred, we take good news very seriously, and so we will just cut to the chase scene and tell you that IBM’s Power Systems business has grown for the second year in a row.

Take that in for a second. Savor it.

Think about the dozen years of dramatic decline we saw in the RISC/Unix and IBM i parts of the Power Systems business in the wake of the Great Recession in 2009, when the X86 platform from Intel finally got enough features – as did Windows Server and Linux – to compete effectively against …
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The IBM i Base Is Ready To Keep Investing In The Future

January 29, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We are at the beginning of a new year, and of course that means that it was time for us to participate in the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey webinar, which is sponsored by Fortra and which is now in its 10th year. We enjoy the webinar that Forta hosts to have a bunch of people from IBM and myself riff on what the survey results mean – and what they don’t mean.

Our host on the webinar was Tom Huntington, executive vice president of technical solutions at Fortra, and we were joined by Douglas Gibbs and Dan Sundt, who …
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New IBM Champion Class Grows Nearly 40 Percent

January 29, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM unveiled a new crop of IBM Champions this month, and the first thing that stands out is the size of the 2024 IBM Champions class. Big Blue gave the honor to 1,155 individuals this year, a 38 percent increase over last year. Just about everyone who applied was named an IBM Champion, says Libby Ingrassia, the IBM program director, who also noted there was considerable overlap between IBM Champions and the new IBM Rising Champion Advocacy badge program.

IBM launched its IBM Champions program back in 2008 as a way to boost the visibility of customers and business partners …
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As I See It: The Other Eight Hours

January 29, 2024 Victor Rozek

In 1594, Philip II of Spain issued a royal edict establishing an 8-hour workday for construction workers in the Spanish colonies. As far as we know, there were no time restrictions on pillaging.

It took another 223 years for the notion of an 8-hour workday to find a supportive voice in England, albeit not a royal one. Robert Owen was something of an oxymoron in his day. He was both a textile manufacturer and a social reformer. As early as 1810 he proposed and instituted a 10-hour workday in a Scottish cotton mill. But by 1817 he had revised his …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 4

January 29, 2024 Doug Bidwell

OK, here’s a weird one and one that we have helped several customers sort out in the past few days and heard about from other business partners. There is a defective PTF for IBM i 7.4 that when applied with other software patches can cause the QSYS file system at the heart of the IBM i platform to magically disappear.

Ooooof! Kinda hits you right in the solar plexus when you think about it. . . .

This one is number 50 on the defective PTF list for IBM i 7.4, which you can read about at this link and …
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Power Systems Grows For The Second Year In A Row

The IBM i Base Is Ready To Keep Investing In The Future

New IBM Champion Class Grows Nearly 40 Percent

As I See It: The Other Eight Hours

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 4

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