• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 47

  December 1, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  We hope you enjoyed a few days off over the Thanksgiving holiday if you’re here in the U.S., but we never sleep here in IBM i PTF Land and it’s time to get back to business. If you haven’t been keeping up on your PTFs, now is a good time to get caught up. Don’t let it lapse into the New Year, we promise you’ll feel better when it is done. This week, there is not too much to worry about, just a few HIPERs you should review. Read on to get the latest, and be sure to utilize the …

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• The IBM Sales Pitch For The Power E1080

  November 29, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It has been a long, long time since a lot of server customers needed to upgrade their machinery every time a new processor and a new system using it comes to market. Back in the early days of the AS/400 platform, customers on the cutting edge of modernizing their back office, manufacturing, and distribution operations often upgraded their machines once a year to add capacity as use cases for these mission critical systems expanded faster than Dennard scaling and Moore’s Law increases in CPU performance.

  These days, machines are installed and not upgraded or swapped out until one, two, or …

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• Getting Started With Connectria’s Hybrid IBM i And AIX Architecture

  November 29, 2021 Roy Flowers

  As a leading provider of IBM i systems, we know the ins and outs around your mission critical systems and their importance to your business. As an AWS advanced consulting partner, we’ve also worked with many customers on the best ways to achieve their cloud migration goals.

  When considering projects around digital transformation, it’s important to maintain realistic expectations. To keep you on track while on your cloud journey, it becomes essential to organize and plan your digital transformation into a more manageable process consisting of small steps towards big goals.

  Time and time again, we find that users target …

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• Guru: Content Assist Plus in Run SQL Scripts

  November 29, 2021 Paul Tuohy

  By now, you should be well aware that Run SQL Scripts provides content assist (promoting) for Select statements (see Guru: ACS 1.1.8.3 Content Assist Includes Prompt For SQL! ). But did you know that you can also use content assist for stored procedures, table functions and parameters? Let’s see how it works, using some of the Integrated File System (IFS) procedures and functions provided by IBM i Services.

  Prompting a Stored Procedure

  Open Run SQL Scripts, type in:

  call qsys2.
  

  Then press F4 (or Ctrl+Space). You will be presented with a list of all the stored procedures in the schema …

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• New LTO 9 Gear, SAN Switch On Tap From IBM

  November 29, 2021 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops facing a storage crunch may be interested in new tape products unveiled by IBM last week, including a new LTO 9 tape drive and LTO 9 compatibility for an existing tape autoloader and an existing tape library. Big Blue also announced LTO 9 compatibility for an existing storage enclosure, and a new 48-port c-type switch for connecting SAN environments.

  IBM’s LTO fun starts with the IBM TS2290 SAS Tape Drive Model H9S, a half-height drive based on the new LTO 9 Ultrium specification. The TS2290 connects to hosts – including Power servers running IBM i, AIX, …

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• A Shot Across The Bow For Power8 Upgrades

  November 29, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sales of new Power8-based Power Systems machines by Big Blue have not been possible for years, but customers with existing Power8 iron have been able to get what IBM calls miscellaneous equipment specification, or MES, upgrades of their existing systems to add processing capacity to those vintage machines.

  The Power8 lineup, launched in April 2014, and the entry machines in the Power8 lineup were withdrawn at the end of February in 2019, an announcement that IBM made in October 2018 to give customers fair warning. In February 2019, IBM said that it was going to withdraw high-end Power8 machinery …

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• Security Threats, They Are a Changin’

  November 17, 2021 Alex Woodie

  Ransomware came into 2021 like a lion, but rather than going out like a lamb, it seemed to get bigger and meaner. Even IBM i shops, which so often are protected from the wider security storm, felt the panic and sense of helplessness of having their previous data held for ransom. But early indications are that the security threat we’re talking about this time next year may be entirely different.

  It’s tough to overestimate the impact that ransomware had on American businesses and other institutions through the course of the year. We had indications that something big was unfolding a …

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• A Year Later: Diving Deeper into How Connectria Brings IBM i Workloads Closer to AWS

  November 17, 2021 David Wilderman

  Connectria has worked in the IBM i and AIX hosting business since 2000. We have strong expertise in both IBM and cloud; we’ve offered IBM i private cloud services and support for more than a decade. We work with a great deal of Power Systems users who are making strides toward the cloud, as many have in the last year thanks to soaring cloud demand in the wake of the pandemic.

  Traditionally, we have helped IBM users by augmenting their existing staff as they retire or turnover by handling production workloads and delivering managed services with capability, not just hardware. …

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• New OpenLegacy Product Creates ‘Tech-Agnostic’ Services

  November 17, 2021 Alex Woodie

  OpenLegacy recently announced OpenLegacy Hub, or OL Hub, a new offering designed to help customers create technology agnostic digital services from existing legacy applications and infrastructure. The offering supports IBM i and z/OS assets, among other platforms that are commonly grouped under the “legacy” banner.

  Since it appeared on the midrange scene back in 2015, OpenLegacy has been looking to help IBM i and mainframe customers extend their existing systems in new and profitable ways. Led by tech veterans from IBM and Software AG, the Israeli company created a development environment that could analyze legacy programs, such as 5250 …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, November 17

  November 17, 2021 Jenny Thomas

  While those of us in the Jungle are looking forward to the Thanksgiving break next week here in the U.S., which brings some much-needed downtime to recharge before the race to the end of the year, the folks at IBM are charging forward in the week following its formal separation from Kyndryl. Much of the news this week is focused on the aftermath and what we can expect from IBM now that it can redirect its all of its energies toward itself once again. Hopefully this refocus will result in good news for our little slice in the week and …

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