Guru: For IBM i Newcomers, An Access Client Solutions Primer

March 1, 2021 Rob McNelly

I enjoy reading about IBM i Fresh Faces. Sure, it’s refreshing to see that it’s not just graybeards like me who are working on the platform, but what really matters is that young people are learning about, getting hands-on with, and coming to love IBM i. I appreciate that many of these stories revolve around system/application modernization and open source solutions. This gives newcomers to IBM i a degree of comfort by reducing their learning curve.

Learning any new technology is challenging. Specifically, how do you go from learning about the concepts to actually getting on a machine and …