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Upcoming COMMON Events for Fall 2023

Dawn May

September 5, 2023

Summer is generally a quiet time for COMMON, but you can expect things to get busy again in the fall. And this year, there are some very exciting events on the schedule. IT Leadership Summit First, there will be a virtual IT Leadership Summit on September 7. The topic is “Generative AI and Security for […]

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Shared Lives, Shared Careers…But Separate Offices

Charlie Guarino

September 1, 2023

This transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I’m sitting here today with a couple of luminaries, in my opinion, in the IBM i community, people who when you first come to think of education in our community, advancing the platform certainly in many different […]

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The Subtle but Significant Differences Posed by Power10 Hardware and the New HMC

Rob McNelly

August 24, 2023

In March, Jaqui Lynch wrote about connecting HMCs to Power10 servers. If you’re in the process of moving to Power10/updating your HMCs, this is a must-read. If you’d like me to summarize it, I can do so in a pithy phrase: The only constant is change. The modern HMC has different connectivity methods compared to […]

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When the Latest and Greatest Isn’t That Great

Rob McNelly

August 15, 2023

I recently went on a wild ride while with family. Thanks to a last-minute cancellation, my sister and niece needed to get from Rochester, New York, to Newark, New Jersey, to catch their connecting flight home to Phoenix. That flight, from Newark was scheduled to leave around 8 p.m. We were notified of the cancellation […]

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How to Introduce Modern Development Tools Successfully

Dawn May

July 14, 2023

Dawn May, president of COMMON, and Andy Finley, senior solutions engineer at Rocket Software, discuss how IBM i customers are taking advantage of new DevOps offerings

Sponsored Content by
Rocket Software - Power Systems

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TechChannel Launches Ask the Experts Series

Emma Pitzl

July 13, 2023

The TechChannel team is always working to deliver fresh and innovative content to our audience. That’s why we’re launching a new thought leadership initiative: Ask the Experts. Connecting You to Expert IT Insights The TechChannel Webinars Ask the Experts series connects our audience directly to technical experts and thought leaders through a 15- to 20-minute conversation […]

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Experts at IBM i Modernization

Dawn May

July 11, 2023

COMMON president Dawn May and CM First Group's John Rhodes discuss current trends and technologies to modernize RPG and COBOL applications on the IBM i

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CM First Group - Power Systems

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Highlights From Common Europe Congress 2023

Torbjörn Appehl

July 6, 2023

Common Europe Congress 2023 has come to an end. After such a project there is a feeling of emptiness that everybody involved can recognize. For me, it’s not a bad feeling; it’s a positive feeling that I’ve done everything I could to make the best Congress possible. And it certainly was a great one, breaking several records: […]

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IBM z16 and Power10 Deliver Highest Reliability Among Mainstream Servers for 15th Consecutive Year

Laura DiDio

July 5, 2023

The IBM z16 mainframe lives up to its reputation for delivering “zero downtime.” The latest z16 server, introduced in April 2022, delivers nine nines—99.9999999%—of uptime and reliability. This is just over 30 milliseconds of per server annual downtime, according to the results of the ITIC 2023 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Survey. ITIC’s 2023 […]

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Google’s Bard Spins Some Tales About IBM Power Systems and AIX

Rob McNelly

June 22, 2023

I assume none of you live under a rock, so you’ve most likely heard about people’s experiences toying around with ChatGPT and other AI solutions. I decided to get in on the fun, so recently I put Google’s bot—it’s called Bard—through its paces. I wanted to see what Bard knows about IBM Power Systems and […]