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Mobile Access To IBM i Makes The Grade
May 18, 2015 Dan Burger
… Read moreWhen a Technology Refresh gets rolled out, we find all sorts of things rolled in. Some of the items, like those picked by IBM execs Steve Will and Alison Butterill two weeks ago in an IT Jungle story, are the front runners for most valuable enhancements. But the list goes on and opinions vary. Tim Rowe puts the addition of mobile support for IBM i Access for the Web, SQL services, and new REST-based Web services at the top of the list.
A big part of the IBM i reputation is its easy access to its file system, to printers
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It’s TR Time: What’s Next For The IBM i Database?
April 20, 2015 Dan Burger
… Read moreWeb application development depends on two document formats for the interchange of business data: XML and JSON. The smaller (lighter weight), quicker to transmit, and more efficient is JSON. XML has been a good choice and has served its purpose well. It continues to do so. However, the popularity of JSON indicates it is the new favorite in IBM i shops, just as it is on other platforms. JSON has done well enough to get noticed on the IBM radar. It showed up in the release of IBM i 7.2 in October and it’s certain to make some noise with
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OpenLegacy’s Modernization Approach Impresses New Partner
April 15, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWith its commercial open source business model, OpenLegacy is breaking the rules when it comes to the traditional ways that IBM i and mainframe software vendors sell their wares. But according to Treehouse Software‘s chief business development officer, it was the underlying technology in its application modernization suite that ultimately led it to become one of OpenLegacy’s first North American business partners.
Treehouse Software’s Wayne Lashley first encountered OpenLegacy about two years ago, when the company was still in its infancy. “I was intrigued by the idea,” he tells IT Jungle. “But I felt they were a little
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Orchestrating Your API-Enabled Assets On IBM i
February 11, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOK, so you’ve API-enabled your IBM i applications and joined the ranks of modern applications. You are definitely going to benefit from simplified integration for both data and application. But now there’s a bunch of SOAP and REST calls flying all around, and it’s getting hard to keep track of them. That’s an area that CM First Group is hoping to address with a new business process management (BPM) tool imported from Europe.
CM First is now reselling the Axon.ivy BPM Suite, a business process modeling and management tool originally developed by its business partner, AXON IVY of Germany. The
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Infor Cloud EDI . . . DocOrigin Replaces JetForm . . . Empowered with Web Services . . .
February 4, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreInfor takes a very industry-focused approach to software, and that is no different with its latest EDI cloud offering. If you’re looking for document management software to replace Adobe JetForm, DocOrigin would like to speak with you. Web services are popping up everywhere these days, including in the application development power tool from mrc.
Infor Launches EDI Cloud for Auto Manufacturing
Infor last month unveiled EDI Managed Service, a cloud-based EDI offering designed specifically for companies in the automotive supply chain.
According to Infor’s announcement, the new service combines an EDI translator from its partner Rocket Software along with its
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DB2 Enhancements, Free Form RPG, Modernization Top Rowe’s ‘Big Hits’ List
February 2, 2015 Dan Burger
… Read moreIf you build it, they will come. It was a prophecy that came to be in a movie called Field of Dreams, but it’s no guarantee in the world of business computing and software development. Sometimes customers come and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they come, but it’s at a pace that makes tortoise racing seem like speed skating. So I asked a guy who is up to his ears in IBM i software development what he thought were IBM‘s biggest success stories.
The guy I went to was Tim Rowe, IBM i business architect for application development and
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IBM Redpaper Guides You To IBM i Modernization Tools
February 2, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhen it comes to building modern IBM i applications, there’s no shortage of tools available on the market. Depending on your requirements–whether you’re staying in the comfy confines of RPG or are comfortable with something like .NET, whether you’re looking just for Web tools or adding mobile too–there are different directions you can go. A recently published IBM Redpaper can help guide you to a better understanding of the third-party tools on the market.
IBM put a big focus on IBM i application modernization last year. After months of work and collaborating with the top experts in the field, it
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IBM i Shops Offloading Infrastructure
December 1, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreInfrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers are gaining ground in the IBM midrange community as more organizations explore the IT strategic plan of outsourcing servers, networking, storage, and data center space. Connectria Hosting, a company with more than 15 years of managed services experience for IBM i, iSeries, and AS/400 customers, is noticing the change. It’s not dependent on existing customers. New customers are coming to the cloud.
“Our IBM i business is up 35 percent over last year,” says Connectria CEO Rich Waidmann.
On a percentage basis, that’s on par with the 40 percent-plus increase Amazon Web Services
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IBM Drops Tech Refreshes for IBM i 7.1 and 7.2
October 7, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreJust before this issue of Four Hundred Stuff went to press yesterday IBM announced technology refreshes for both IBM i 7.1 and 7.2. At first glance, the two updates appear to carry similar features, including native support for REST-based Web services.
We all expected IBM to make IBM i-related announcements during its Enterprise2014 conference, which is taking place this week in Las Vegas. IBM normally makes big announcements on Tuesdays, but for whatever reason this time it dropped the big news on Monday.
The big news with IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 9 (TR9) and IBM i 7.2 TR1 appears
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IBM Drops Tech Refreshes for IBM i 7.1 and 7.2
October 7, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreJust before this issue of Four Hundred Stuff went to press yesterday IBM announced technology refreshes for both IBM i 7.1 and 7.2. At first glance, the two updates appear to carry similar features, including native support for REST-based Web services.
We all expected IBM to make IBM i-related announcements during its Enterprise2014 conference, which is taking place this week in Las Vegas. IBM normally makes big announcements on Tuesdays, but for whatever reason this time it dropped the big news on Monday.
The big news with IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 9 (TR9) and IBM i 7.2 TR1 appears
