TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 75 Archives

More On That Power8 Core Activation Deal

November 13, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In days gone by, which unfortunately I remember very well, it was not that difficult for any of us to find out what the pricing on every single piece of hardware and software was that comprised an IBM system. The difficulty with IBM’s very sophisticated pricing databases was reckoning how the many pieces fit together to build a system.

Pricing information for Power Systems iron is a bit harder to come by these days, and as far as I know the pricing databases that I had access to for more than two decades were re-routed to configurators that could only …
Read more
Coming Attractions: The IBM i App Dev Multi-Platform Show

November 13, 2017 Dan Burger

Multi-platform development is more vision than reality. Application development is still a siloed environment as programming work remains more isolated and less collaborative than visionary thinkers wish it to be. Therefore, the existence of multiple programming environments within an organization seldom reaches the goal of operating as a team. Much of the potential benefit of teamwork lingers out of reach. Instead of a single team with common operations, there are individual teams with individual operations.

The good news is that it’s better than it used to be. Still, the fabric of multi-platform unity and the efficiencies it would bring to …
Read more
Guru: Faster Fetching, Revisited

November 13, 2017 Paul Tuohy

While visiting a client recently, I was shown how they were using a multi-row FETCH into a multiple-occurrence data structure to retrieve large sets of data. When I asked why they were not using a data structure array instead, I was referred to an IT Jungle article in which Ted Holt answered a question on whether it was faster to perform a row-at-a-time FETCH or a multi-row FETCH when using embedded SQL.

Ted provided a comparison between a row-at-a-time FETCH, a multi-row FETCH into a data structure array, and a multi-row FETCH into a multiple-occurrence data structure. At the end …
Read more
As I See It: The Pros and Cons of Doing Nothing

November 13, 2017 Victor Rozek

In an era when information circles the globe in seconds, and distant events are posted and assessed within minutes, it is unimaginable that all of humanity owes an incalculable debt to a man who essentially remains unknown – for an action that didn’t occur.

The year was 1983, a dangerous and bellicose time. Russia had just shot down a Korean Airliner with 269 people aboard, and the Cold War was still under full simmer. Khrushchev had once promised to bury the United States and now Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union the Evil Empire and vowed to “write the final pages” …
Read more
HATS Finds A RESTful ‘Swagger’

November 13, 2017 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops will gain access to new API tooling on Thursday, when IBM ships a new release of its Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) software that supports Swagger, a popular open-source specification for designing, generating, documenting, and consuming REST-based APIs.

APIs built using the Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol have become the primary way that companies expose their applications and data in a programmatic way. By defining one’s application program interfaces (APIs) in the RESTful style – as opposed to, say, the older, XML-heavy Simple Object Application Protocol (SOAP) style – companies can join in, and partake of, …
Read more

More On That Power8 Core Activation Deal

Coming Attractions: The IBM i App Dev Multi-Platform Show

Guru: Faster Fetching, Revisited

As I See It: The Pros and Cons of Doing Nothing

HATS Finds A RESTful ‘Swagger’

Content archive

Recent Posts

Subscribe

Pages

Search