Educating Fresh Faces—Boot Camp, Summit and More
August 22, 2017
Many Fresh Faces are joining the IBM i community. But once they get here, how do they learn what they need to know?
ArticlesTech Tip: Be Like a Turtle!
August 10, 2017
The poet Bill Copeland once wrote “Try to be like the turtle—at ease in your own shell.” I find this to be great advice! Of course, I’m thinking of a different kind of “shell.” That is, I’d like to talk about the shell that you use when connecting to IBM i with the Secure Shell […]
ArticlesWords in Action
August 1, 2017
Imagine being able to predict the onset of a mental health condition before it hits. Or receive a diagnosis at home instead of a psychiatrist’s office. Or being able to adjust your medications based on patterns in your speech when you casually talk with family and friends. Within the next five years, you may not […]
ArticlesPromoting IBM i—Buzzwords & Hot Buttons
June 19, 2017
Each organization, and in fact each executive within an organization, typically has some specific issues which concern them more than others.
ArticlesPromoting IBM i—Triggering Events
June 13, 2017
Before a company launches a platform evaluation, there are often signs, which, if you recognize them, would allow you some time to prepare.
IBM i Strategy: The Cooperative Game
May 30, 2017
In cooperative strategy, players communicate about the actions they will each take. Consequently, we IBMers in the IBM i community have been increasingly talking with, and listening to, our community.
ArticlesIBM i Thoughts: COMMON Conference
May 20, 2017
Steve Will reflects on the 2017 COMMON conference.
ArticlesRPG Fundamentals: Arrays
May 9, 2017
RPG has changed so much over the years that, increasingly, we find our students are unaware of many of the basic tools available to them. One is array processing.
ArticlesWhy Organizations Should Reconsider Their Current Chargeback Systems
April 1, 2017
Imagine Mary, Fred and George are gathered for a budget meeting with Ellen, their company’s CIO, to discuss another budget shortfall. Ellen asks, “What caused this million-dollar shortfall?” George says, “We think it’s related to the decision by accounting to shift one of their major workloads from our Power Systems* platforms to our VMware tower. […]
ArticlesHow to Download Fixes
March 18, 2017
I still find customers that are unsure of how to download fixes, so I want to cover the steps that I use when I download fixes, using AIX 7.2 as an example.