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RPG Code Assist Is The Killer App For AI-Enhanced Power Systems

October 23, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

“I love it when a plan comes together.” – Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, The A Team.

Look, we take our wisdom and our joy where we can find it here at The Four Hundred, and it does indeed look like Big Blue has a plan that is coming together with regards to generative AI and the Power Systems hardware platform as it relates to the IBM i software platform.

We told you in Monday’s issue that IBM was up to something with regard to the Power Systems line, which was revealed to partners and presumably key …
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IBM Unveils ‘Migrate While Active’ Cloud Offering, HA Subscriptions

October 23, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM yesterday announced new subscription offerings for its continuous availability and high availability products for IBM i, Db2 Mirror and PowerHA, respectively. It also announced a “migrate while active” program to move IBM i installations to servers running in IBM’s PowerVS cloud or other Power-based clouds.

For the past two-and-a-half years, IBM has been moving its IBM i software stack, including the operating system as well as supporting facilities, like BRMS, and Cloud Storage Solutions, away from perpetual licenses and toward subscriptions. At the same time, it’s been simplifying the stack by including more utilities, such as Performance Tools and …
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What’s New on PHP? Seiden Delivers the Goods

October 23, 2024 Alex Woodie

PHP has been around so long on the IBM i server that it’s practically a legacy technology at this point (not that that’s a bad thing). But if you haven’t looked at PHP lately, you might be surprised at what’s going on with the newer releases. PHP guru Alan Seiden recently brought us up to speed with the Web development language with a webinar sponsored by TUG.

Seiden has been involved with PHP on IBM i for about 20 years. He was playing around with the open source language even before IBM and Zend worked together to bring the first …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 23

October 23, 2024 Jenny Thomas

All things considered, IBM has had a pretty good year. And as we await the Q3 financial results, we are expecting more of the same as confidence for software business growth seems to continue, and GenAI and the hybrid cloud continue to be winners for the bottom line. When you consider that November is next week – you can also tell the end of the year is near by looking at the dwindling items on our calendar – we are already looking ahead to the coming year with optimism. But for now, let’s take a look at the news of …
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IBM Bolsters Db2 for i With Tech Refreshes

October 23, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM is delivering a handful of new database capabilities with the latest batch of Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.5 and 7.4, including new function to create Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs), new capabilities for the security data mart, and various enhancements to SQL-based IBM i Services.

A UUID is a random 36-character, 128-bit alphanumeric string that can be used to identify something, such as a row or table in a database, with near certainty that the identifier is unique, has never been used before, and will never be used again.

The UUID system was first implemented by the Open Software …
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RPG Code Assist Is The Killer App For AI-Enhanced Power Systems

IBM Unveils ‘Migrate While Active’ Cloud Offering, HA Subscriptions

What’s New on PHP? Seiden Delivers the Goods

Four Hundred Monitor, October 23

IBM Bolsters Db2 for i With Tech Refreshes

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