TFH Volume: 35 Issue: 10 Archives

Government Mainframes Versus DOGE: Showdown At The COBOL Corral

March 17, 2025 Alex Woodie

Elon Musk is a force of nature, slashing the federal payroll through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But the government’s IBM mainframes are immovable objects in their own rights, lasting the test of time. If Musk and DOGE are serious about reforming how the government does business, the government’s legacy systems will pose a serious challenge.

As the head of DOGE, Musk has ruffled plenty of feathers with his comments and his actions, including firing federal employees en masse and wielding a large “chainsaw for bureaucracy” given to him by Argentine President Javier Milei, an ally of President Donald …
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RISE For SAP Could Be A Boon For IBM’s PowerVS Cloud

March 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

German application giant System Analyse Programmentwicklung, better known as SAP, has spent more than five decades to deliver five major versions of application software to help companies run themselves. They are R/1 in 1977, R/2 in 1981, R/3 in 1992, mySAP.com (which became Business Suite) in 1999, SAP HANA in 2011 with its S/4HANA application suite in 2015. And today, the company has over 400,000 customers.

As is well known, SAP wants to create an application system, which is a phrase that resonates with the OS/400 and IBM i faithful. SAP was founded by five ex-IBMers from Germany and started …
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Guru: Creating An RPG Stored Procedure That Returns A Result Set

March 17, 2025 Mike Larsen

In the previous article, I showed how to create an RPG stored procedure that uses parameters. In this article, I’m going to show how to create an RPG stored procedure that returns a result set, as we would likely encounter this scenario more frequently. The data used in this example comes from the Department table from IBM’s Sample database.

I created an RPG program (Figure 1) that selects all rows from the Departments table. I didn’t add any selection criteria as I know there aren’t many rows in the table, but you may want to limit the number of rows …
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Shield Adds Task Automation To Message Monitoring Tool

March 17, 2025 Alex Woodie

Automating the monitoring of IBM i messages was just the start for Shield Advanced Solutions and its AAG offering. This month, the company announced that the Nagios-based tool has been bolstered with support for Ansible, which gives it the capability to automatically respond and take actions based on certain IBM i messages.

Shield Advanced Solutions launched AAG, which stands for At-A-Glance, back in 2023 as a way to help its customers monitor high availably setups. Shield President Chris Hird was aghast that some IBM i shops were leaving mirrored pairs under monitored, which reduced the odds the systems would be …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 11

March 17, 2025 Doug Bidwell

Last week was a busy week for PTF patches, but not for security vulnerabilities. And this week is even quieter, but there are new defective PTF reports this week that you need to keep an eye on, as is usually the case in most weeks.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:
- None
PTF Groups 7.4:
- MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/v9.2.0/v9.3.0
PTF Groups 7.3:
- None
Tip O’ The Week: We are thinking.

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘Links’ tab in The Guide this week:
- None
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Government Mainframes Versus DOGE: Showdown At The COBOL Corral

RISE For SAP Could Be A Boon For IBM’s PowerVS Cloud

Guru: Creating An RPG Stored Procedure That Returns A Result Set

Shield Adds Task Automation To Message Monitoring Tool

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 11

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