Open Source is Changing Businesses
January 2, 2018
Some revolutions begin with a bang. But not the open-source revolution. In 1991, Finnish inventor Linus Torvalds was working on a computer project with the sole purpose of providing a challenge for himself. Liking what he saw, Torvalds showed the software that was to become Linux* to other programmers. Soon, many programmers began to contribute, […]
ArticlesIBM z14 Pervasive Encryption Protects All Data
January 2, 2018
In reality, encryption is largely absent from corporate data centers. The IBM z14 is poised to change that.
ArticlesPosting Tweets from IBM i
January 1, 2018
More and more, social media provides an avenue to share information. It’s very easy to read your Twitter feed or post a Tweet using a smartphone, PC, etc., but what if you want to post Tweets automatically or on a schedule? Maybe you have a new product to promote or perhaps you want to advertise […]
ArticlesUSAA Integrates Applications and Data Across Platforms Using RESTful APIs
January 1, 2018
UP CLOSE Customer: USAA Headquarters: San Antonio Business: Financial services Challenge: Integrating applications and data across platforms Solution: Using RESTful APIs to open communications channels between backend and client-side resources Hardware: Eight IBM z13 systems Software: IBM WebSphere Application Server “There’s gold in them thar hills!” an old and enduring U.S. miner saying goes. It can apply today, as organizations are finding […]
ArticlesAn Application View of Data Is Important for a Point-in-Time Recovery
January 1, 2018
Hardly a week goes by without another report of data being stolen, lost or corrupted. Black hats working for organized crime or unfriendly governments often perpetrate these events, but many are the result of poor planning, carelessness or outright neglect. While most data centers with mainframe footprints have a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a […]
What’s New in RDi With V9.6
January 1, 2018
IBM i developers got an early Christmas gift in 2017—a new version of RDi to play with! Here's an overview of some of the changes that we've found so far.
ArticlesTrevor Perry on Slide Decks and IT Strategy
January 1, 2018
Paul Tuohy: Hi everybody and welcome to the first iTalk with Tuohy of 2018. To kick off the year, I think no better person to maybe look back at 2017 with and to kick off the new year is my friend, my colleague, my fellow IBM Champion and general AS/400 evangelist, Trevor Perry. [Laughs] I […]
ArticlesThe Art and Science of AIX Performance: The Stats Utilities
January 1, 2018
An article series dedicated to AIX and the methodology of attacking and resolving performance problems.
ArticlesActive Memory Pools with Navigator for i
December 21, 2017
On the “green screen” you can see what pool a job is running in with Work with Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB); press F11 one time and you’ll find a column with the pool number. That’s nice, but you need to know the description of the pool that number is associated with. Using Work with System Status […]
ArticlesManaging Emerging Technologies
December 18, 2017
In this post, I finish up my focus on the management theme from the previous four weeks of posts, with a concentration on the management of emerging technologies like robots and artificial intelligence (AI). There’s been much written about jobs being lost to new technologies like computerized algorithms (at this time) and autonomous vehicles (in […]