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Get Started With Go Language on AIX

Clément Chigot

September 3, 2019

Go toolchain, the self-hosted toolchain of the new high-performance networking and multiprocessing language, is now available on AIX* 7.2 for POWER8*. This toolchain aims to complement the previous port of Go for AIX, which was made within gcc (known as the gccgo toolchain). What Is Go Language? Go is a new imperative language inspired by […]

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When the Phone Rings in the Middle of the Night

Jim Schesvold

August 16, 2019

It’s been decades since I had a 9:00 to 5:00 job, only the earliest weeks of my IT career. Training kept me out of town a lot, and becoming a participating project member took a few months to attain, but once I’d become an accountable project member, my working hours extended into evenings because of […]

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Celebrating 10 Years of i Can

Dawn May

August 12, 2019

How time flies! It’s hard to believe I’ve been writing the ‘i Can’ blog for 10 years. Over these 10 years a lot has changed, yet my dedication to the platform remains as strong as ever. The ‘i Can’ blog started as a way to share information about ‘hidden gems’ in IBM i. At semi-regular intervals, […]

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IBM Redbooks: A Look at the Website’s 3 Tabs

Joseph Gulla

August 12, 2019

Joseph Gulla explains the different tabs on the IBM Redbooks website.

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IBM Redbooks Are More Than Books

Joseph Gulla

August 5, 2019

Joseph Gulla explores materials on the IBM Redbooks site.

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Luisa Martinez on zNextGen and SHARE

Reg Harbeck

August 1, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Luisa Martinez who is the IBM rep to the zNextGen project at SHARE. Luisa, maybe if you can start by just telling us, how did you end up on the mainframe?   Luisa Martinez: All right. Well thank you for having me and […]

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Valuable Sessions Continue on Day 2 of the 2019 ECC Conference

Joseph Gulla

July 19, 2019

Joseph Gulla highlights sessions from the 2019 ECC conference.

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Compute Trends and the Evolution of the IBM Mainframe

Phil Weintraub

July 18, 2019

The past 40-plus years of commercial computing has been a story of three waves (acts) of increasing integration of processes coupled with increasing scale of computing. This article describes each wave, and provides insights of where the current wave of cloud computing is heading. For many of the world’s largest enterprises, modern businesses were built […]

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SHARE Women in IT Effort Works to Increase Representation and Support Those in the Tech Industry

Keelia Estrada Moeller

July 17, 2019

SHARE recently launched a new effort to encourage more women to pursue careers in technology, increase representation at the conference, and support women already working in the industry. The result of this Women in IT initiative became clear back in March 2019 at SHARE Phoenix, where several sessions focused on women in technology and shattering […]

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Management by Intimidation Is a Formula for Failure

Jim Schesvold

July 16, 2019

Over the decades I’ve seen scores of management staff in action, some competent and motivating, others technology savvy yet people ignorant, some just the opposite, some political and back-stabbing, and some truly cost-obsessed. I spent 17 years with IBM and flourished under their management style, then founded an IT consulting firm. Instead of being managed […]

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Delivered IBM i RFEs

Dawn May

July 11, 2019

A look at a few RFEs that provide enhancements you may not be aware of.

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IBM Research Is Revamping the Global Food Supply Chain

Jim Utsler

July 10, 2019

According to the United Nations, the earth’s human population could grow to 8 billion people over the next few years. Go to research.ibm.com/5-in-5/ to read more about IBM Research’s five seed to shelf predictions. Unfortunately, the global food chain—from farms to processors to grocers to the table—may not be able to safely and effectively keep […]

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Getting Started With IFS Containers

Jesse Gorzinski

July 8, 2019

IBM i expert Jesse Gorzinski explains set up a container running Node.js version 10

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Scheduler Resource Allocation Domains or What the Heck is SRAD?

Mark J. Ray

July 2, 2019

Technical expert Mark J. Ray explores the Scheduler Resource Allocation Domain and how it relates to performance structures in Power Systems servers running AIX

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A Look at the IBM Global Solutions Directory

Joseph Gulla

July 1, 2019

This post is the last in a series on ISVs, service providers, the Dallas ISV Center offerings, PartnerWorld and the IBM Global Solutions Directory (GSD).

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Misty Decker on Communicating the IBM Z Story

Reg Harbeck

July 1, 2019

Reg Harbeck: Hi, I'm Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with Misty Decker. Misty is in charge of the IBM Academic Initiative, which is really key to the future of the mainframe. Misty, welcome. Can you tell us, how did you end up on the mainframe?   Misty Decker: It was an accident. I went to college; […]

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ACS Application Packages and the ODBC Driver for i

June 19, 2019

The ODBC driver for IBM i is now available and you can download it in the same way as the application packages.

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SLAs Simplify Support

Jim Schesvold

June 17, 2019

Service-level agreements (SLAs) were nearly nonexistent when I started in IT. Those of us involved in online systems implementation were too focused on keeping terminal-based applications operational and tolerably responsive to worry about such things; furthermore, no one had heard of them. There wasn’t much pressure for an SLA either, because end users were infatuated […]

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Copy a Monitor with Navigator for i

Dawn May

June 7, 2019

IBM i expert Dawn May explains how to copy a monitor with Navigator for i v7.2.

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Varying-Dimension Arrays for RPG

Jon Paris

June 1, 2019

The new IBM i 7.4 announcement brought with it varying-dimension arrays, a new data definition keyword and more

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Application Performance and Tuning

Jim Schesvold

May 14, 2019

As the original author of “CICS Performance Bulletin” published by IBM Dallas System Center, and co-author of the subsequent IBM “CICS TS Performance Guide” in conjunction with IBM Hursley CICS TS Development, performance and tuning has been a big part of my job. I’ve performed more CICS performance studies than I can count, and almost […]

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IBM i—For Innovators, by Innovators

Steve Will

May 9, 2019

The IBM i team in IBM is proud of our platform, and we’re excited to be innovators in the IT industry.

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Db2 Mirror for i Offers Continuous Availability

Scott Forstie

May 1, 2019

Q: What is Db2 Mirror? We recently announced the new IBM i operating system (OS) level, known as IBM i 7.4. Each OS level contains new and enhanced features and functions. We have a history of also delivering a major enhancement to the database (Db2* for i) when we have a new release. For IBM […]

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COBOL Turns 60

Reg Harbeck

May 1, 2019

On April 8, 1959, a team led by Grace Hopper met for the first time to begin developing the specifications for the COBOL programming language. A day short of five years later, on April 7, 1964, the computer platform that would come to be most closely associated with this great programming language was announced: the […]

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DevOps Drives Innovation and Modernization on IBM Z

Sol Lederman

May 1, 2019

IBM is paving the way for clients to drive innovation and modernization through DevOps tools, processes, and promoting new ways of thinking. A number of questions face us on this path: How can legacy applications running on the IBM Z platform fit into the DevOps way of thinking Are the tools and processes to create […]

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