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What, And Who, The New Power S1012 Server Is Aimed At

May 20, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As you know full well by now, we have a new and final entry into the Power10 line of systems from IBM, the Power S1012, also known by its codename “Bonnell.” The Power S1012 entry server was announced two weeks ago and we did an architectural dive into the system last week based on the announcement letter and the Redbook on the system.

After digging around a bit, this week we are going to do a comparative analysis on the Power S1012 machine compared to its predecessors, particularly the Power8-based Power S812 Mini machine from 2017, which was a similar …
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COMMON Hosts Its Annual Conference, Welcomes New Board This Week

May 20, 2024 Alex Woodie

COMMON today kicks off its annual POWERUp conference, bringing the global IBM i community together in beautiful downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The world’s largest IBM i user group is also wrapping up an election for its board of directors, which features three candidates for three spots.

For many decades, COMMON has hosted the single largest annual gathering of IBM i professionals, and that run of success will not be broken this week, with expectations of about 1,000 attendees at the show. This year’s annual COMMON conference, dubbed POWERUp 2024, features four days of education, networking opportunities, and other events in …
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Guru: Testing URLs With HTTP_GET_VERBOSE

May 20, 2024 Gregory Simmons

In my previous article Fooling around with SQL and RPG, I explored having a little fun with the HTTP_GET function to fetch a witty Dad Joke from https://icanhazdadjoke.com/. In this article, I want to demonstrate a more practical use of this great function. Or should I say, another version of HTTP_GET, that is HTTP_GET_VERBOSE, which also was introduced to us by the DB2 team in V7R3.

In its simplest implementation, I can insert the URL I want to test into an SQL statement:
```
select *
from table(QSYS2.HTTP_GET_VERBOSE('https://icanhazdadjoke.com/',''))
```
I will later want to run this embedded in an RPG …
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As I See It: Mind Hacks

May 20, 2024 Victor Rozek

When I first saw the video, it felt a bit like watching science fiction. There were rows of little children, sitting in a classroom, dressed identically, seemingly concentrating on their school work in compliant silence. It reminded me of 20th century newsreel footage of obedient Hitler youth, except that the kids were Asian. And it had a distinctly dystopian feel to it punctuated by an electronic headband on each child’s forehead.

But it wasn’t fiction. The headband monitored the children’s brainwave activity, to identify those who were concentrating and those who were not. The results were transmitted in real time …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 19

May 20, 2024 Doug Bidwell

You will need a little time to deal with some security vulnerabilities this week, so set aside some time. There is also a warning about infrastructure changes for electronic fixes from IBM and, for those of you who care, a new release of the IBM MQ message queuing middleware.

You can find out about the new MQ 9.4, which delivers improved cross-platform connectivity, observability, and modernization capabilities, at this link. And as for preparing customer firewalls and proxies for the upcoming infrastructure changes – Call Home, Electronic Fix Distribution – check out this link.

That leaves the three …
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What, And Who, The New Power S1012 Server Is Aimed At

COMMON Hosts Its Annual Conference, Welcomes New Board This Week

Guru: Testing URLs With HTTP_GET_VERBOSE

As I See It: Mind Hacks

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 19

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