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Fresche Nabs Redbourn Business Systems For Synon Expertise

November 11, 2024 Alex Woodie

Fresche Solutions last week acquired Redbourn Business Systems, a UK-based provider of Synon and CA 2E development and consulting services. The move bolsters Fresche’s previous efforts to cater to the needs of IBM i shops that adopted the Synon/2E development language, and also bolsters the company’s European presence.

Redbourn Business Systems was founded in 1994 by Steve Cast, a longtime RPG programmer and IBM midrange professional who was among the first to port applications from the System/38 to the AS/400 back in the 1980s. The company, which is based in the English village of Redbourn, provides a range of services …
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Power Systems Distributor Ingram Micro Goes Public (Again)

November 11, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We admit it. It has been a long, long time since we paid much attention to the master distributors that IBM and other IT equipment makers use as a channel between themselves and their systems customers. We used to follow Arrow Electronics and Avnet like a hawk. But we got sidetracked and stopped thinking about them, in part because the late and great Dan Burger used to be our go-to guy for keeping in touch with the Power Systems channel distributors.

The recent initial public offering of Ingram Micro, which is really the second time the company has gone public …
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Guru: RPG Receives Enumerator Operator

November 11, 2024 Gregory Simmons

The RPG language now (some would argue, finally) has an enumerator operator. This was introduced in IBM i 7.5 TR3 and IBM i 7.4 TR9.

DISCLAIMER: The edibility of the mushrooms listed in my test program are purely to give the program some context and make it interesting. Their edible status is based on information from the Missouri Department of Conservation’s publication A Guide to Missouri’s Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms. Before foraging for or consuming any wild mushroom do your research and be safe.

Let’s dive right into a code sample. We’ll start with a simple linear-main program …
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Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecast For 2024 Again

November 11, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The boom of GenAI just keeps getting louder, and the increasing spending by the hyperscalers and clouds are giving air cover to IT shops all over the world who want to weave GenAI technologies into the applications and processes of their companies and who therefore want to get more IT budget.

IT spending forecasts are useful because they tell us where we think we are going and they also tell us how our IT shop measures up against the average of all of the IT shops in the world. The typical enterprise is definitely not spending anywhere near as much …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 44

November 11, 2024 Doug Bidwell

The number of patches slowed down last week, and we are not sure if that had anything to do with the election in the United States, but what we do know is we all got a break. And we will take it, and then get back to work.

There are a number of security vulnerabilities with WebSphere middleware, an issue with drive logging, and several fixes for TGTRLS in the RPG compilers.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability (CVE-2024-45086), which you can read about here. This …
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Fresche Nabs Redbourn Business Systems For Synon Expertise

Power Systems Distributor Ingram Micro Goes Public (Again)

Guru: RPG Receives Enumerator Operator

Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecast For 2024 Again

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 44

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