• Flash Storage Is Table Stakes For Any IBM i Cloud

  October 31, 2022 Andrew Johnson David Fahrenkrug

  After a long wait, the IBM i market is finally entering the true cloud era, one where utility pricing, performance, flexible capacity, and managed services are all available for companies running the IBM i operating system and RPG, Java, PHP, and sometimes COBOL applications against the Db2 for i relational database.

  But there are clouds, and then there are things that should not rightly be called a cloud.

  And we think that if you are a modern cloud, then your primary storage has to be flash and that there is no place for a hard disk drive based on spinning …

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• Power S1022s Tweaked To Do Native IBM i With More I/O

  October 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Our apologies, but we did not see an important new configuration of the Power S1022s entry server that IBM offered to IBM i customers in announcement letter 122-084 on October 11.

  Buried down at the bottom of this announcement, which was mostly about some peripheral enhancements that we did cover in the issue of The Four Hundred following the announcements, was the following statement:

  “IBM Power now offers a Power S1022s (MTM 9105-22B) configuration with two sockets populated with 4-core processors (#EPGR) with a maximum of eight cores active. This configuration is available at a P10 IBM i software tier …

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• As I See It: Up The Downside

  October 31, 2022 Victor Rozek

  For all its transformational benefits, technology has an undeniable downside which regularly produces a range of disagreeable outcomes from annoyance to overt threat. As a subject, technological disfunction is a target-rich environment, but my word count limit – not to mention a reader’s attention span limits – prevent a full accounting. So, I’ve chosen three illustrative examples.

  On the annoying spectrum, is the near-complete destruction of customer service. These days, reaching an actual human being on the phone requires the patience of a monk and the persistence of a mosquito. No matter who you call, be advised their menu options …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 44

  October 31, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  Remember all of those quiet weeks in PTF Land when nothing much was going on? There is a whole bunch of stuff this week.

  First, starting October 26, IBM has enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all its websites using IBMid. As a user on the Entitled Systems Support website, you are using IBMid to login, so you are impacted by the change. When you first login after the change is implemented, you will be asked to add an additional authentication method – either a code sent to your email or a supported mobile authenticator app available on Google Play Store …

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• Rocket Rides Modernization, DevOps for Hybrid Cloud Adoption

  October 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

  Puneet Kohli, Rocket Software’s new IBM i portfolio manager, is under no illusion about how easy it will be to boost IBM i software sales. “This is not a space where you wake up one morning and your CIO says ‘I’m going to go buy a product on the i,’” Kohli says. But a well-thought-out strategy around enabling DevOps and application modernization in a hybrid cloud setting? Now that just might move the needle.

  It’s been almost a year since Rocket Software founder Andy Youniss stepped down from the day-to-day management of the company he led for 31 years, paving …

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• Kafka, JSON, DevOps: Future Proof Your IBM i With Secure, High Performance APIs

  October 26, 2022 Daniel Magid

  It is an exciting time to be working with an IBM i! The Rochester lab and IBM partners are rapidly pushing out new technology options that allow you to do anything with the IBM i that you can do on any other platforms. The latest in web and mobile user interfaces, the most modern languages, comprehensive security, machine learning, data visualization, internet of things, APIs – are all available to IBM i users. When combining all that technology with the unmatched reliability, ease of management and low cost of ownership of IBM i, you can be confident that your company …

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• New Nav Makes Progress, But Still Not Caught Up with Old Nav

  October 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

  The Technology Refreshes have brought IBM closer to completing the transition to the new Navigator from the old Navigator product, which is susceptible to the Log4j security vulnerability. While the advances in IBM i 7.5 TR1 and 7.4 TR7 will help customers, the new Navigator product will still not be at feature parity with old Nav when the plug is pulled on the heritage product at the end of the year.

  IBM has been encouraging its IBM i customer base to accelerate its adoption of the new Navigator, which debuted just over a year ago with the introduction of IBM …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, October 26

  October 26, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  The year may be winding down, but things certainly seem to be looking up for IBM. As you will see in our Top Stories below, Big Blue recorded some positive numbers that should make for a happy new year if the trend continues. If you’re looking to end this year on a good note, you might take a look at some of the new webinars we have listed below. There are lots of new opportunities to pick up some new skills before the calendar runs out. So read on for the latest news, tips, and learning opportunities, and we’ll see …

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• It’s Your IBM i Marketplace, And This Is Also Your Survey

  October 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We are coming into the home stretch of the 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey. That means time is running out for you to participate and have your voice heard and your IBM i shop to counted. And as we have been doing for the past couple of weeks, we are once – and finally –asking you to take a moment and take the survey.

  This survey was conceived of by the late Dan Burger of IT Jungle and Tom Huntington of HelpSystems, and the data that it gathers is invaluable. Like other members in the IBM i community, …

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• When Choosing Your Path To Modernize Your IBM i, Use A Guide

  October 26, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

  When you are moving into a new frontier, it always helps to have a guide who has been there before and who knows the lay of the land and literally where all of the pitfalls are. We have just such pathfinders, and they want to help.

  One guide is Mike Mahan, who is global sales director at LANSA and who has a wide range of sales and management experience across many IT vendors in his more than three decades in the industry. The other guide is Eugene King, who is a senior sales engineer at LANSA.

  If your IT organization …

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