TFH Volume: 34 Issue: 46 Archives

How Ya Doing Out There?

September 23, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We keep track of a lot of things on your behalf here at IT Jungle.

We cover all of the major product announcements from Big Blue, giving you the feeds and speeds, competitive analysis, pricing and performance analysis, and other issues that you need to consider as you keep your Power Systems platforms current and supporting your business.

We watch all of the changes in the IBM i stack, Technology Refresh and PTF updates, and we do the best that we can – and we think better than anyone else in the market – to keep track of what the …
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Hybrid Cloud For Disaster Recovery: Ensuring Business Continuity

September 23, 2024 Tom Horan

In today’s environment, businesses face numerous threats that can disrupt operations and cause financial losses. Disaster recovery planning is crucial for maintaining business continuity. While traditional on-premises solutions have been standard, hybrid cloud offers a more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective alternative.

Benefits Of Hybrid Cloud for Disaster Recovery

Hybrid cloud combines on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure, offering several key benefits:
- Increased Availability and Resilience: A hybrid cloud environment significantly boosts the availability and resilience of IT systems. This architecture provides built-in redundancy and failover capabilities, ensuring critical applications experience minimal downtime. By replicating vital applications and data to the cloud, businesses
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Guru: RPG Select Operation Gets Some Sweet Upgrades

September 23, 2024 Gregory Simmons

I have always been a fan of RPG’s Select operation. Any time I’m coding an If statement and think there’s a chance that there could be a third situation other than the If-Else conditions, I will go ahead and code the Select operation instead of the If statement. The RPG language’s Select operation got a pretty sweet upgrade in V7R5 TR2 and V7R4 TR8. Now, the Select statement can be presented with a value and we have two new op-codes to use within the Select operation; When-is and When-in.

DISCLAIMER: The edibility of the mushrooms listed in my test …
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Making Basic IT Services Great Again

September 23, 2024 Alex Woodie

The focus of the tech world has been squarely on generative AI since ChatGPT descended the golden staircase and entered our hearts and minds in late 2022. Since then, building GenAI apps and services has become the number one priority for businesses around the globe. Unfortunately, the GenAI fixation has come at the detriment of basic IT services, a recent IBM study suggests.

The level of hype for generative AI the past two years has been off the chart. Not since the initial dot-com boom of the late 1990s has a new technology triggered such a tsunami of interest, some …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 37

September 23, 2024 Doug Bidwell

This week, there are recommended fixes for the cryptographic services in the IBM i platform and Big Blue’s own cryptographic co-processors, which run encryption, decryption, and hashing algorithms on outboard compute engines rather than on the Power CPUs at the heart of the system. You can read about the recommended fixes for IBM i 7.2 here and for IBM i 7.3 there. As far as we know, there are not fixes for IBM i 7.4 or IBM i 7.5.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:
- HIPERs
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How Ya Doing Out There?

Hybrid Cloud For Disaster Recovery: Ensuring Business Continuity

Benefits Of Hybrid Cloud for Disaster Recovery

Guru: RPG Select Operation Gets Some Sweet Upgrades

Making Basic IT Services Great Again

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 37

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