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Momentum Builds For Code For IBM i

November 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

Energy and excitement are building in the IBM i development community thanks to Code for IBM i, the VS Code extension that enables users to write and edit RPG and COBOL code in a Web browser. Spearheaded by Liam Allan, who now works for IBM, the lightweight alternative to RDi is approaching critical mass among IBM i developers desperate for something new.

For many years, IBM i shops had few options available to them when it comes to developing ILE applications for IBM i. IBM’s default recommendation was Rational Developer for i, the Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) that …
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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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Use A Pathfinder And Choose Your Path To Modernize Your IBM i

October 24, 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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Smart Modernization Is The Answer To IBM i Talent Shortage

September 28, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

When we are at the COMMON POWERUp 2022 conference a few months ago, we were amazed by the number of IT managers that approached us because of a shortage of IBM i programming talent. The dearth of programmers that are experienced with the business as well as legacy and modern programming techniques has pushed a lot of businesses up against the wall, with lost agility and in some cases delayed projects.

As bad as that is, the situation could be worse. We have all heard the horror stories, where the executive suite or upper IT management push to switch away …
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IBM i Modernization – Life After RPG

March 30, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

How an IBM i business approaches legacy application modernization doesn’t differ from application modernization on any other platform. Well, there is one slight difference. Many of those IBM i businesses have the added weight of replacing working legacy applications for the simple fact that RPG fell out of mainstream coding decades ago. The code is efficient and perfectly runs mission-critical apps, but there are fewer and fewer programmers around to maintain that code.

Colleges and universities stopped teaching RPG before Y2K was even a concern. Developers that learned RPG in the 1980s and early 1990s were 30 or 40 years …
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To My Dearest IBM i . . .

February 9, 2022 Visual LANSA

Very rarely do hardware and software stay together for so long…

Hardware finds newer, younger, more trendy software….

The trendiest software jumps to the best hardware….

But every so often…

The best hardware and software stay together for a lifetime!

To My Dearest IBM i:

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I wanted to profess my love and gratitude to you. Although we have spent over 30 Valentine’s Days together, I didn’t want this one to pass us by without acknowledging the special place you hold in my heart.

I have watched you blossom from a young aspiring server to the …
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IBM i Community Predictions For 2022, Part 3

January 17, 2022 Alex Woodie

Due to an unprecedented response from the community, we are running a third installment of 2022 predictions. The third (and final) round of predictions kicks off with an optimistic prophecy from Charles Guarino, the president of Central Park Data Systems, who has a very bright outlook for the year ahead in IBM i land.

“As business confidence and optimism rallies, IT budgets will become less restrained,” Guarino tells IT Jungle. “Even those with the least maintained and enhanced legacy systems will experience modernization pressure. This will come from all sources, internal, external and industry compliance, all demanding swift …
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Transferring Low Code Benefits Into The IBM i

September 22, 2021 Eugene King

As with fashion, there are trends in the IT industry and history tends to repeat itself in several exciting ways. Development languages come into fashion, run their course, and then become obsolete. Then, they may be revamped with the addition of new criteria and frameworks. IBM i development also follows these same trends.

The low-code movement is not new but another iteration on traditional programming. Let’s do a brief history review.

At first, computer programming involved specific machine code associated with a particular processor architecture. Eventually, the language was slightly abstracted to facilitate second-generation assembler code, which was partially portable …
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Visual LANSA Customers Can Now ‘Portalize’ Their Apps

September 2, 2020 Alex Woodie

LANSA is well known to IBM i shops for its low-code developer tools. But the company also has its share of shrink-wrapped applications. With the recent launch of pre-build Web portal called Portalize, it’s added another to its collection.

Portalize is a portal framework that Visual LANSA customers can use to get a secure Web portal up and running with a minimal amount of effort. The product, which LANSA introduced in June, supplies the core components that an organization would need to get a portal off the ground, such as security, account creation, authentication, and logging capabilities.

The software, which …
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