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Some Thoughts On Big Blue’s GenAI Strategy For IBM i

August 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In a world that has gone half mad with generative AI, it is refreshing to see the people who control the IBM i platform being skeptical, hopeful, and practical about how the technology might be used to help the companies who choose Power Systems running IBM i as the platform for their mission critical applications.

IBM Rochester has always been practical and often innovative when it comes to adopting hardware and software technologies, so the strategy that IBM i chief technology officer Steve Will laid out in a recent IBM i & AI – Strategy & Update as part of …
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Untangling Legacy Spaghetti Code To Cook Up Microservices

August 12, 2024 Michel Mouchon

At this point in the history of programming, everyone pretty much knows what microservices are and everybody is more than acquainted with the legacy code – and often monolithic code – that has been created over decades by countless programmers who have evolved corporate applications to fit new conditions and new demands.

It is often called spaghetti code, and for good reason. The code is often a tangled mess of business logic and data – presumably the data is the meatballs and the user interface is the sauce in this metaphor. (It is important to not take a metaphor too …
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Guru: Creating A Web Service With Basic Authentication

August 12, 2024 Mike Larsen

I have been working with web services for many years, and I usually use IBM’s IWS (Integrated Web Service) tool to create them. The tool provides a wizard-based interface that allows me to quickly create a web service from an RPG program. Recently, I created a web service that uses basic authentication, and I want to share my experience.

I am assuming that you are already familiar with creating a web server and a web service, so I am just going to show the steps that need to be taken to add basic authentication functionality. If you would like me …
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IBM Bolsters Run SQL Scripts In ACS 1.1.9.6

August 12, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM last week shipped a new release of Access Client Solutions (ACS) that contains several user-requested updates for Run SQL Scripts (RSS), the popular tool that allows users to execute SQL statements. ACS 1.1.9.6 also brings enhancements to the data transfer, IFS, and 5250 emulator components of ACS, among others.

ACS, of course, is the universal Java-based utility that IBM unveiled 12 years ago to replace Client Access. It’s a must-have tool for any IBM i user, as it contains a slew of facilities for interacting with the system, including RSS, data transfer, IFS file viewing, spool file management, 5250 …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 31

August 12, 2024 Doug Bidwell

As we report elsewhere in this issue, the big news this week in IBM Software Land is a new release of Access Client Solutions, which is rolled out as a PTF update for the currently supported releases of the IBM i operating system. Our story is here, and the release notes are there.

We did not see any new security vulnerabilities, which is always good news.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:
- IBM i Access Client Solutions V1.1.9.6
- SAP Support Required PTF List for IBM
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Some Thoughts On Big Blue’s GenAI Strategy For IBM i

Untangling Legacy Spaghetti Code To Cook Up Microservices

Guru: Creating A Web Service With Basic Authentication

IBM Bolsters Run SQL Scripts In ACS 1.1.9.6

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 31

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