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An IBM i Year In Review

December 10, 2018 Alex Woodie

Another year is just about wrapped up for us here at IT Jungle. That means it’s time to ease off the news pedal just a tad and enter into a retrospective mood, with the hope of gaining some perspective on where we’ve been in 2018 and perhaps how we’ll start off 2019.

It all started off rather poorly, way back in. . .

January

. . . when the big news was about Spectre and Meltdown, the two vulnerabilities that brought everybody rudely back to the real world following the New Year’s celebration. Nearly all types of processors, including …
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What Is Happening With RFEs For IBM i?

October 29, 2018 Alex Woodie

IBM customers have been encouraged to vote on product enhancements for over a year as part of the Request for Enhancement (RFE) process, and a number of new features have actually made it into IBM i technology refreshes (TRs). What new or improved IBM i functionality will Big Blue work on next?

It’s hard to say exactly which RFE items will strike a chord with IBM product managers, since the requests can be all over the board and impact a range of components, from the IBM i OS itself and the Db2 for i database to Access Client Solutions (ACS) …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Number 20, Volumes 31 and 32

August 15, 2018 Doug Bidwell

We have some catching up to do this week. Summer is winding down, the kids are going back to school, and it’s time to get things back in order in PTF Land. There actually wasn’t much to report with Volume 31 of our PTF Guide, mostly due to the announcements that were expected in time for Volume 32. Still, 31 brought us a fix pack for Rational Developer for i (9.6), as well as some new links on how to configure ObjectConnect, what system fixes are required for Domino, and the IBM i collaboration software compatibility guide.

Here’s the defective …
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Big Blue Moves Up Technology Refreshes For IBM i

August 6, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We knew that IBM was getting ready to flesh out the Power9 server lineup with the “Cumulus” processors for scale-up systems, used in machines that span from four to 16 sockets in a single system image, and we told you all about that last week for an announcement that is expected to come to pass on August 7. This is fitting with all of the rumors we heard at the beginning of the year, which expected the big iron to come in the third quarter.

Normally, we expect Technology Refresh updates for the current versions and releases of IBM i …
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Pushing The Capacity Envelopes With IBM i 7.3

April 9, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Every piece of systems software has some sort of maximum capabilities reference, and these documents are interesting in their own right to help system administrators, programmers, and database administrators, as they case may be, figure out where they might hit a ceiling in terms of capacity or performance.

IBM has just published the Availability Maximum Capacities reference for IBM i Version 7 Release 3, which you can take a gander at here. As this reference correctly points out, coming close to the performance limits – or many of them at the same time – can cause outages. In this, …
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IT Jungle Readers Respond To Tech Refreshes

February 28, 2018 Alex Woodie

IBM took some people in the IBM i community by surprise when it unveiled the latest Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3 two weeks ago. Support for new Power9 servers obviously headlines the news, but several other notable new features are worth mentioning. We asked IT Jungle readers to chime in on the parts they liked best.

Birgitta Hauser, a developer with Toolmaker Advanced Efficiency in Germany, says she likes the productivity enhancements that TRs bring, and the latest TRs are no different.

“Because I’m at first an IBM i programmer, with the main focus on RPG and …
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TRs for IBM i 7.3 and 7.2: Enhancements, No Big Surprises

October 4, 2017 Dan Burger

With each Technology Refresh, we are reminded that the pace of enhancements IBM brings to its IBM i operating system and related software products is significant and that certain areas are more significant than others. So, the IBM i community is either aligned with these upgrades and eager to put them to use or it’s not yet ready, willing or able to be technologically current. As usual, there are IBM i shops watching as the enhancements unfold and making decisions on whether the enhancements can deliver benefits to their business in terms of productivity and solving business challenges.

Steve Will, …
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An IBM i Year In Review

January

What Is Happening With RFEs For IBM i?

IBM i PTF Guide, Number 20, Volumes 31 and 32

Big Blue Moves Up Technology Refreshes For IBM i

Pushing The Capacity Envelopes With IBM i 7.3

IT Jungle Readers Respond To Tech Refreshes

TRs for IBM i 7.3 and 7.2: Enhancements, No Big Surprises

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