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Past And Future Collide At PowerUp 18

May 21, 2018 Alex Woodie

COMMON kicked off its first inaugural PowerUp conference Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, where an estimated 1,000 attendees are gathered to learn about the Power Systems platform and share their knowledge with other users. The IBM i server’s 30 years of reliable service was a big topic of discussion, but IBM executives Steve Sibley and Stefanie Chiras were determined to talk about Power’s AI future.

Any platform that lives to be 30 years old in this day and age is doing something right. While today’s IBM i server is not the same beast as the first AS/400 that came out …
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Guru: How To Override Query Options

May 21, 2018 Ted Holt

QAQQINI is a physical file with which you can control certain behaviors of the DB2 for i query engine. For a list of the query options that you can change, visit the IBM Knowledge Center. Normally you don’t have to use it, as the engineers of IBM have done a great job designing an optimizer that does a great job.

At times you may want to change a query attribute for a certain job. There is no need to build many QAQQINI files to handle all possibilities. Instead, you can temporarily override query attributes within a job. DB2 for …
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Big Blue Gives IBM i Shops A Special 30th Birthday Bash Box

May 21, 2018 Dan Burger

Big Blue is in the middle of celebrating three decades of the IBM i platform, and the company has unveiled a special birthday box that commemorates the occasion. It’s essentially a Solutions Edition package with some extra bells and whistles. For those unfamiliar with the Solutions Editions, they are pre-configured systems with a choice of IBM and ISV software discounts applied. Those discounts would be unavailable when buying the systems or the software individually.

The IBM i 30th Edition offering is based on IBM i Solution Edition Power9 Model S914, a P05 tier box, with four cores. All of the …
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Inside IBM’s SAP HANA On Power Playbook

May 21, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power Systems line is in transition right now, making the jump from Power8 to Power9 processors, and yet the company wants to continue selling applications without having customers wait for the newer chip to be available across the entire Power Systems portfolio. This is a particular problem when it comes to the HANA in-memory database on Power Systems, which IBM is eager to sell given the higher memory capacity and bandwidth that Power9 offers compared to the Xeon processors from Intel.

To help business partners that are peddling SAP suites on Power, which includes the IBM i platform, in …
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Getting Hyper And Converged With IBM i

May 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The hallmark of the System/38 and its progeny, the AS/400, iSeries, System i, and IBM i platforms, is that these machines came fully integrated with all of the operating system, database, management, and development tools necessary to run a modern business. Integrated did not mean that these pieces were all sold as a single bundle, mind you, but they snapped together with good fit and finish and allowed companies to not have to become masters of the system code and could therefore be craftsman for the application code that actually ran the business.

The AS/400 really set the pace for …
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What’s Cooking With IBM i On GitHub?

May 14, 2018 Alex Woodie

The IBM i community’s relationship with open source started off as a slow embrace, but it’s turning into something more serious. A central player in this love affair is GitHub, which is not only the world’s largest repository for open source code, but increasingly a vehicle for delivering open innovation on the IBM i platform.

GitHub is a privately held company that was founded 10 years ago in San Francisco as Logical Awesome LLC with a simple goal: provide a hosting service and collaboration framework for software development projects managed with the Git open source version control system.

The company …
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Guru: Odds And Ends

May 14, 2018 Ted Holt

Little things can make a big difference. Today I am pleased to present a few short tips that may make a difference for you. I hope you get something useful here. If you have short tips that you would like to share with your fellow readers, please email them to me and I’ll see what I can do. Have a wonderful day!

Hey, Ted:

I just read your article More Date And Time Conversions Using SQL. Just as aside, the scalar functions Decimal/Dec, Integer, and BigInt can convert times, dates and timestamps directly into a numeric representation in the …
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Boston Power9s Set To Debut

May 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power9 systems aimed at data ingest and data analytics, code-named “Boston” after the band from Beantown that features what is arguably the tightest album side in classic rock music, are now out and will be available by the end of the month. These are Linux-only machines, and like some of the prior LC models (short for Linux Cluster, not Low Cost as I keep thinking it means) based on Power8 processors, these were created by Supermicro and are resold by IBM as well as being sold by Supermicro in its SuperServer line.

IBM is, of course, Supermicro’s biggest customer …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 19

May 14, 2018 Doug Bidwell

We like to keep you on your toes here at the IBM i PTF Guide, and this week we are popping up at the tail end of the Monday edition of The Four Hundred instead of the usual Wednesday edition. This will happen from time to time, as the publishing schedule for the newsletter changes, so don’t get nervous. The IBM i PTF Guide and The Four Hundred carry on, as always.

So, without further ado, let’s get to the patches. First up, V7R3 has a new DB2 Group – with a whopping 94 PTFs added. (Whew! Somebody’s …
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Here’s What’s Next for the Enterprise Software World

May 9, 2018 Alex Woodie

Thirty years ago, enterprise resource planning (ERP) was a hot new technology promising to help streamline business processes. While ERP continues to generate billions in revenue, it’s mostly for keeping complicated systems up and running. Now the daughter of the founder of JD Edwards is sharing a bold new vision for how her company, called Nextworld, plans to take enterprise software to the next stage.

We first got wind of Nextworld venture about a year-and-a-half ago. We knew the Colorado company had big plans and a stream of funding from Kylee McVaney’s father, Ed McVaney. However, since Nextworld was …
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