IT Change and Renewal
April 30, 2018
Approaches and tactics to address challenges like breathing new life into applications.
ArticlesImproved Temporary Storage Tracking for IBM i (Part 9)
April 26, 2018
IBM continues to enhance temporary storage tracking and management, which was significantly improved beginning with IBM i 7.2.
ArticlesCopy Performance Data using ACS IFS Tasks
April 18, 2018
Considerations for moving performance data to a different partition.
ArticlesCelebrating IBM i at COMMON POWERUp18
April 12, 2018
One of the biggest events for IBM i professionals is the annual conference put on by the COMMON organization. This year, the event is named POWERUp18.
ArticlesEditing a File in the IFS with Navigator for i
April 10, 2018
Navigator allows you to edit IFS files with a simple text editor.
IBM i 30th Anniversary Celebration Begins
April 2, 2018
Here we go! As I hinted in my last post, it’s time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of IBM i—and that celebration starts today, officially. We had a “preview party” of sorts at the RPG & DB2 Summit a few weeks ago, and we had a great time. Now, we get to start celebrating with […]
ArticlesThe Power of Prototypes for RPG
April 1, 2018
Prototypes are a topic that most RPGers know a little about because they are required for coding program and procedure calls in free format RPG
ArticlesWhy It’s Important to Create a Library of Network Documentation
April 1, 2018
I’ve always been a strong advocate of documentation, because in my very first programming project, I got a profound lesson on why no project or assignment was complete until descriptive written information accompanied the work product. I was a graduate assistant in a business Master’s Degree program, and the associate dean offered me a summer […]
ArticlesThe Modernization Imperative
April 1, 2018
Oh, those up-start startups. They think they can push services out to market faster than large enterprises because they’re smaller and more agile. Well, they’re in for a surprise. Many big companies are embracing application modernization efforts, which allows them to be just as agile as their newcomer competitors and, as a huge benefit, take […]
ArticlesICSF HCR77C1, the z14 and Pervasive Encryption
April 1, 2018
ICSF is a component of z/OS and IBM is touting HCR77C1 and the z14 to deliver pervasive encryption.