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Big Blue Working On Replacement For Global Solutions Directory For IBM i

July 8, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM is developing a website to replace the Global Solutions Directory, which it recently killed off. The new site should allow customers to search through a comprehensive list of IBM i applications serving specific industries, just like they could with the Global Solutions Directory.

For years, IBM’s Global Solutions Directory served as the go-to mechanism for researching the wide breadth of IBM i software products available around the world. If you needed to know what kind of banking solutions existed on IBM i version 6.1 for midsized American credit unions, or what the market looked like for Indonesian construction equipment …
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Thoroughly Modern: The Synon Transformation Journey, From Legacy To Modern Java Solutions

July 8, 2024 Chris Koppe

In today’s evolving tech landscape, companies that run CA 2E (Synon) on IBM i face significant challenges hindering progress and sustainability. Synon represents a fraction of the market share in IBM i environments, far behind RPG and COBOL, and IBM’s recent announcement to cease PL/I support in future OS versions will impact compliance for SOX-regulated and other industries.

Moreover, shifts in ownership – from Computer Associates to Broadcom – cast doubt on Synon’s long-term viability and continued support. A dwindling pool of Synon developers, brittle applications that are difficult to integrate with modern technologies, and cryptic database structures further add …
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Guru: Parsing JSON That Has Spaces In The Key

July 8, 2024 Mike Larsen

One of my favorite tasks is working with APIs. I’ve worked with many APIs over the years, and some introduce unique challenges that must be overcome. Recently, I worked on a project where I was to consume a REST API that provided a JSON payload. While that seems straight forward, I quickly discovered a challenge.

The JSON payload had keys that have spaces in them (Figure 1). That may be considered bad practice, but I still needed to figure out how I could parse it correctly. Having never seen JSON like this before, I started with a Google search. I …
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Xorux Is Gaining Traction With LPAR2RRD System Monitoring

July 8, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

System monitoring and management is a lot more complicated these days than it was back in the early days of the AS/400 or even the middle years of the iSeries. To start, there are physical and virtual servers, physical and virtual storage, and physical and virtual networking to deal with, and finding a tool – or a set of integrated tools – that can do that, and do it across disparate and incompatible platforms, is a big ask.

But a little known software company called Xorux, which is based in Prague in the Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, actually …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Numbers 24 And 25

July 8, 2024 Doug Bidwell

It is Ketchup Week here at the IBM i PTF Guide, and not just because of all of the hot dogs, hamburgers, and French American fries being consumed for the Independence Day holiday here in the United States of America.

The Four Hundred has been publishing on a lighter schedule than usual, as sometimes happens during the summer months as people get some downtime, and we are catching you up on the PTFs for the IBM i stack, converging two issues of The Guide into a single one so we can get back to lock stepping it in Monday’s …
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Big Blue Working On Replacement For Global Solutions Directory For IBM i

Thoroughly Modern: The Synon Transformation Journey, From Legacy To Modern Java Solutions

Guru: Parsing JSON That Has Spaces In The Key

Xorux Is Gaining Traction With LPAR2RRD System Monitoring

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Numbers 24 And 25

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