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DATA-INTO Plus DATA-GEN for Web Services

Jon Paris

April 6, 2020

Combining these two RPG operations with the YAJL library simplifies using web services from RPG

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Theresa Hans on IBM Champions and New to Z

Reg Harbeck

April 1, 2020

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Theresa Hans who is the key person for a whole bunch of different mainframe and new mainframer and IBM Champion things. Well rather than introducing her myself, Theresa tell us what's your role at IBM and how did you end up in such […]

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Developing an Audit Process for Data Set Encryption

March 30, 2020

Two of the challenges of planning and implementing data set encryption under z/OS is how to determine whether data sets targeted for encryption are eligible and (during rollout) which have actually ended up encrypted. Because pervasive encryption can be a large project taking on many phases, those involved with implementation will want to have the […]

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Improve Workload Resilience With z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator

March 24, 2020

IBM has two new contributions to the IBM Z family: A data infrastructure provided by z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator and a visualization engine driven by z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator.

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Modernization Carries Varied Meanings for Different People

Jim Zell

March 23, 2020

When the IBM z15 was announced I couldn’t wait to read the information about the advancements and changes that we would all see. I quickly read about System Recovery Boost, integrated zEDC compression, standard rack space frame, double cache density on each chip, etc. The modern mainframe; the fastest, most resilient and high availability, commercially-available […]

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Spring Updates from the IBM i Team

Steve Will

March 23, 2020

IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will shares how his team is adjusting to the new normal and keeping client needs and education at the forefront.

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The Many Faces of Application Creation: Part 2

Jim Schesvold

March 16, 2020

This is a continuation of last month’s article, which chronicled application tools and options in context of development projects I’ve worked in and programming alternatives used, including design, coding, and validation. I’ve used various programming facilities, along with their strengths and weaknesses. My experiences start in the early 1970s, and the evolution I’ve experienced spans […]

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How Crypto Revolutions in the Financial Industry Link to Modern-Day Conceptions of Fintech

Ilija Acimovic

March 16, 2020

The financial sector experienced turmoil in the past decade. We don’t have to hand cash or credit cards to our taxi drivers anymore as we can use an app instead. Furthermore, we can easily send money to our friends and family via Payoneer and Paypal, never leaving the comfort of our homes. What’s more, today […]

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Take a Closer Look at ACS 1.1.8.3

Tim Rowe

March 3, 2020

Tim Rowe: Welcome to the iSee video series with Tim Rowe and… Scott Forstie: Scott Forstie. T: We've got some fun things that we have been working on here in the lab that we think would be really good for you to see to be able to help you with your day jobs. To get […]

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Homer Ahr Reflects on Working Mission Control for the NASA Apollo Space Program

Keelia Estrada Moeller

March 2, 2020

Growing up in the midst of Sputnik and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Homer Ahr’s interests in the space program were piqued early. Ahr became a computer operator for a construction company in his early college years. Inspired to further his career, he taught himself how to program in FORTRAN. Ahr was later asked to work […]

Podcasts

‘Mainframe Mike Myers’ on IBM Z System Programming

Reg Harbeck

February 27, 2020

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Mike Myers, the mainframe Mike Myers, who has been involved with the mainframe basically since the very beginning. Mike, maybe if you could introduce yourself to us and tell us, how did you end up on the mainframe?   Mike Myers: Well it's […]

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The Many Faces of Application Creation: Part 1

Jim Schesvold

February 20, 2020

While my career has mostly been consulting, marketing, systems programming and management, I’ve also had numerous engagements in application programming and design. A class in COBOL was my first IT experience, and in my MBA program, I learned Fortran and General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) in Operations Research classes. In 1975, I rewrote a broken […]

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Access Client Solutions is Now Shipped with IBM i

Dawn May

February 18, 2020

In this i Can blog post, Dawn May shares another way to stay current with ACS updates.

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IBM i in 2020: 2020 iSight & New Homes for IBM i information

Steve Will

February 6, 2020

It’s finally time for my first blog post of 2020. I have a couple of things I need to talk about to start the year, so let’s get to them.   First, I want to encourage you to read the new 2020 iSight blog. This year, we want to help clients, ISVs, business partners—the whole IBM i […]

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Celebrating 10 More Years of RPG Progress

Susan Gantner

February 3, 2020

IBM i experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner reflect on a decade of progress for the RPG development language

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Laticia Carrow on Community and Completing the Master the Mainframe Contest

Reg Harbeck

February 3, 2020

Reg Harbeck: Hi this is Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with Laticia Carrow who is a brand new mainframer who has basically had an amazing journey getting to the mainframe, doing the Master the Mainframe, doing an apprenticeship. Well before I tell you all about her, Laticia tell us about yourself. How did you […]

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Mobile Applications for IBM i Enable Business Continuity

Neil Tardy

February 3, 2020

Cellphones and mobile devices, long a part of our daily lives, have also become essential in the world of business. That’s certainly the case for Alan Seiden. As head of Seiden Group, a consulting firm specializing in application development and modernization on the IBM i platform, Seiden manages his business from his phone. When traveling […]

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PHP Enters a New Era

Jesse Gorzinski

January 28, 2020

Jesse Gorzinksi discusses a recent development in the world of PHP on IBM i: standalone PHP (without Zend Server) is available in RPM form.

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How Millennial Mainframers Can Solve Technology Problems

R.C. “Bob” Dirkes

January 23, 2020

In the book “Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers,” author Nat Greene asserts that poor problem-solving skills cost individuals and society incalculable amounts of time and money. “We waste so much time, money and frustration on bad solutions,” Greene said during a 2017 interview. “I hate that good people have to put up […]

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Lower Levels of IT Managers Should Have IT Experience

Jim Schesvold

January 20, 2020

In my roles as IBM senior systems engineer, and later, IT consultant and project manager, I’ve worked with a wide variety of IT managers, especially first and second level managers. That’s where most of the work is done, where pieces are connected and enabled, yet I found in many projects or development efforts—especially situations involving […]

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Build Up A Webserver With Nginx On IBM i

Jesse Gorzinski

January 14, 2020

In this post, IBMer Ji Mo walks through the steps of building a nginx server on IBM i.

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2020 Vision: Optimize System Configuration Settings

Dawn May

January 8, 2020

In this i Can blog, IBM i expert Dawn May discusses why you shouldn’t keep your system at default values.

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Classical Computing and Quantum Computing Can Work Together

January 3, 2020

Breathless ‘end of the classical computer’ articles, quantum supremacy and ‘broken security’ hysterics to the contrary, pitting classical versus quantum computing is not the issue. What is at issue is determining how to most effectively exploit each architecture. Quantum computing’s major strength doesn’t lie in simply analyzing Big Data. While the speed of quantum is […]

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Bringing New Talent to the Mainframe Workforce

Marc I. Smith

January 2, 2020

IBM Z Champion Marc I. Smith on how to engage next-generation mainframers

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Getting Started With REST and SQL

Tim Rowe

January 2, 2020

Rest, can you ever really get enough of it? Not only is rest great in the overnight hours, but it’s key in today’s world of modern development. For many years, IBM i has included a web services engine, which was originally able to create SOAP-based web services over RPG and COBOL programs and services programs. […]

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