COMMON Education Foundation: Connecting with the Next Generation of IT Talent
September 28, 2023
As the older generation of IT professionals looks toward retirement, filling the gaps left behind can be challenging. COMMON Education Foundation (CEF) seeks to help solve that challenge, connecting the next generation of IT talent with employers and educational resources. Laura Ubelhor, owner of Consultech Services Inc. and secretary of CEF, has been working with […]
PodcastsThe IBM i Marketplace Survey Reaches Year 10
September 27, 2023
This transcript is edited for clarity. Paul Tuohy: Hello and welcome to another iTalk Business with Tuohy. Delighted to be joined again today —we’re seeing a lot of each other a lot of each other recently, Tom [laughs]. Tom Huntington: I think it’s a good thing though, Paul. It’s a good thing. Paul: Oh, I know it […]
ArticlesWhat’s Up With Merlin? An Update From the CTO
September 21, 2023
In May 2022, along with the announcement of IBM i 7.5, we rolled out a new application development and modernization solution called IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, or what we call Merlin for short. Merlin is an integrated set of tools that run in Red Hat OpenShift containers. The first set of tools […]
E-BooksHarness the Power of AI and IBM i Modernization
September 18, 2023
IBM's Jason McGee and Rocket Software's Puneet Kohli explain how AI is changing the way we think about modernization—and break down misconceptions about modernization on IBM i
ArticlesIBM Support Insights: Infrastructure Management Simplified
September 7, 2023
IBM Support Insights provides a wealth of critical information to make admins' jobs easier
Upcoming COMMON Events for Fall 2023
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 […]
PodcastsShared Lives, Shared Careers…But Separate Offices
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 […]
ArticlesThe Subtle but Significant Differences Posed by Power10 Hardware and the New HMC
August 24, 2023
Rob McNelly urges old dogs to learn new tricks and shares additional thoughts about the recently retired Nigel Griffiths
ArticlesManage IBM i Jobs With Service Commander
August 22, 2023
IBM i can run more technology than ever before. As such, the types of jobs that can be run are quite diverse—ILE programs, Db2 tasks and PASE programs can happily coexist. This synergy is indeed powerful, but it does come with a cost. All these jobs can be difficult to manage! Consider the simple notion […]
ArticlesWhen the Latest and Greatest Isn’t That Great
August 15, 2023
Rob McNelly on the challenges posed by some technological innovations, notes from IBM Support, and a shout-out to the newly retired Nigel Griffiths