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Making Informed Technological Decisions

Jim Schesvold

September 1, 2018

In my early system engineering years with IBM, my primary account was a large insurance company in central Wisconsin that was a leading-edge user of CICS [1] and one of the higher volume online systems in the world. Their advanced, heavily-used, real-time and transaction-based business applications stressed IBM’s largest S/370 processors to their limits. Transaction growth […]

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The Significance of Cybersecurity

Joseph Gulla

August 27, 2018

The foil to cybercrime is cybersecurity—the protection of internet-connected systems including hardware, software and data from cyberattacks.

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The Significance of Technology Change and IT Innovation

Joseph Gulla

August 20, 2018

This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. Technology change, that force that moves technology forward, is one of those very powerful momentums in IT. However, IT innovation is its own specific kind of technology change that nevertheless has a significant effect on […]

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Prestart Jobs and Server Jobs

Dawn May

August 16, 2018

IBM i expert Dawn May on the user interface for displaying server jobs and how to manage your prestart server jobs

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Fresh Faces in IBM i Development

Steve Will

August 14, 2018

Last year, we saw the introduction of the “Fresh Faces of IBM i” campaign from marketing. This year, we’ve introduced another “class” of Fresh Faces in the IBM i community.

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The Significance of Open Source

Joseph Gulla

August 13, 2018

This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. The evolving development and use of open-source software is one of those very powerful ideas. Let me explain. Big Software I use the phrase “evolving development and use of open software,” but maybe it’s just […]

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