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A Ruby And RPG Conversation
March 17, 2015 Aaron Bartell
… Read more“Due diligence” and “risk assessment” are phrases that should be running through your head anytime technology decisions are being made where new tooling or ideas are being put into production. The same is true when considering whether the Ruby language has a place in your shop. After all, it is a significant change in direction when introducing a new language to your technology stack.
What many people don’t know is the adoption of Ruby (and the Rails web framework) can be done in incremental fashion if that is what works best for you. What I mean by that is not
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End-Of-Year Odds And Ends
December 12, 2012 Ted Holt
… Read moreDear Esteemed Colleagues:
We made it through another year! Thanks to you, along with our writers and advertisers, this august publication is 11 years old! Who’da thunk it? Let’s wind up 2012 with various and sundry items that you sent my way.
–Ted
Hey, Ted:
I am using SQL to query an index, similar to what I do for a logical file. The system is responding with error SQL7011 (SOMEINDEX in SOMELIB not table, view, or physical file.) Could you please shed some light on why it is happening?
–Jabir
What you’re trying to do makes sense from
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IBM i Marketing Plans Get The iManifest Touch
July 9, 2012 Dan Burger
… Read moreBoosting the public image of the IBM i operating system is a pretty steep mountain to climb. It is widely misunderstood, often mischaracterized, and repeatedly underestimated by those who are less familiar with it than they are with nuclear fusion. Any faithful follower of the IT Jungle publications knows about iManifest and how the Japanese have used it for brand-specific promotions while it has remained bed-ridden in the United States and the European, Middle East, and Africa markets.
Well, look who just got out of bed. It’s iManifest EMEA.
What have they done? They’ve come up with a focused plan
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State of the System i: Other Software Makers Weigh In
December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs we wind down 2007 and get ready to take on 2008, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem. So for the past several months I have been talking to companies large and small in the ecosystem who peddle hardware, software, or a mix of the two to see how business has been in 2007, what they are hearing from i5/OS and OS/400 shops in terms of products and budgets, and what they expect their own businesses to do in 2008.
The good news, at least as far as the
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State of the System i: Other Software Makers Weigh In
December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs we wind down 2007 and get ready to take on 2008, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem. So for the past several months I have been talking to companies large and small in the ecosystem who peddle hardware, software, or a mix of the two to see how business has been in 2007, what they are hearing from i5/OS and OS/400 shops in terms of products and budgets, and what they expect their own businesses to do in 2008.
The good news, at least as far as the
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State of the System i: Other Software Makers Weigh In
December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs we wind down 2007 and get ready to take on 2008, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem. So for the past several months I have been talking to companies large and small in the ecosystem who peddle hardware, software, or a mix of the two to see how business has been in 2007, what they are hearing from i5/OS and OS/400 shops in terms of products and budgets, and what they expect their own businesses to do in 2008.
The good news, at least as far as the
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As I See It: The All-American Exhausting Vacation
July 9, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIf you can overlook the mosquitos and the natural grandeur, spending a day in Yosemite is a lot like spending a day at Disney’s It’s a Small World attraction. In both locations you will find crowds, long lines, and examples of people who wear exotic clothing and don’t speak English. They come from all points of the compass, speaking a Babel of languages from melodic to staccato, and although their history and customs are as varied as wild flowers, they have at least one thing in common: They get more vacation time than the locals.
It’s no secret that Americans
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As I See It: The All-American Exhausting Vacation
July 9, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIf you can overlook the mosquitos and the natural grandeur, spending a day in Yosemite is a lot like spending a day at Disney’s It’s a Small World attraction. In both locations you will find crowds, long lines, and examples of people who wear exotic clothing and don’t speak English. They come from all points of the compass, speaking a Babel of languages from melodic to staccato, and although their history and customs are as varied as wild flowers, they have at least one thing in common: They get more vacation time than the locals.
It’s no secret that Americans
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As I See It: The All-American Exhausting Vacation
July 9, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIf you can overlook the mosquitos and the natural grandeur, spending a day in Yosemite is a lot like spending a day at Disney’s It’s a Small World attraction. In both locations you will find crowds, long lines, and examples of people who wear exotic clothing and don’t speak English. They come from all points of the compass, speaking a Babel of languages from melodic to staccato, and although their history and customs are as varied as wild flowers, they have at least one thing in common: They get more vacation time than the locals.
It’s no secret that Americans
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Oracle Cools on Fusion, Focuses on Current ERP
February 6, 2007 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOracle unveiled major new releases of four out of its five application lines last week, including new releases of the J.D. Edwards World that is popular among users of the IBM iSeries platform. The software giant also backed off a bit on Fusion, its next-generation unified ERP platform, as it emphasized how responsive and flexible it’s being to its customers’ near-term needs.
It might be a stretch to call it a “kinder, gentler” Oracle, but there was an unmistakable shift in the software giant’s rhetoric last week as it unveiled J.D. Edwards World A9.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft
