• The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
Menu
  • The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Infor CM3 to Provide On-Prem Alternative to Cloudy M3

    April 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

    For years, Infor has been leading with the cloud when it comes to M3, the ERP system formerly known as Movex. But now, the software giant is readying a new hybrid deployment option called CM3 that will run in a Linux or Windows container and IBM i.

    Long before Infor completed its Lawson acquisition in April 2012 — even before Lawson finished its acquisition of Intentia in 2006 — plans were solidly in place to migrate the core RPG code underpinning the Movex suite to Java, thereby opening the software to run on platforms besides just IBM i, its historical …

    Read more
  • Is It Time To Rename RPG?

    August 24, 2020 Alex Woodie

    Should IBM rename RPG, and if so, what should the new name be? It’s an interesting idea, and one that was recently floated by a member of the IBM i community, who submitted an official request for enhancement (RFE) on the matter. The crux of the argument is that full free-format RPG is such a dramatic departure from fixed-format RPG that it deserves a new name. But will IBM, which owns the language, go along with the change?

    Report Program Generator, or RPG, debuted way back in 1959, at the dawn of the computer age, as a way to replicate …

    Read more

Content archive

  • The Four Hundred
  • Four Hundred Stuff
  • Four Hundred Guru

Recent Posts

  • ARCAD’s Deal with IBM for DevOps In Merlin Is Exclusive
  • In The IBM i Trenches With: Maxava
  • Is The Cloud On Your IBM i Horizon?
  • Four Hundred Monitor, September 20
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 38
  • The Subscription Pricing For The IBM i Stack So Far
  • Facing The Challenges Of Upgrading Old Systems With The Cloud
  • Guru: Generating XML Using SQL – The Easy Way
  • Rocket Buys Data Integration Provider B.O.S.
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 37

Subscribe

To get news from IT Jungle sent to your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter.

Pages

  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Contributors
  • Four Hundred Monitor
  • IBM i PTF Guide
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe

Search

Copyright © 2023 IT Jungle