TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 14 Archives

New IBM Champions Reflect on Their Journeys

February 26, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM has rolled out its new list of Champions for Power, and on the list are eight men from the IBM i community who have been named Champions for the first time. Among the honorees is the Four Hundred Guru himself, Ted Holt.

Ted Holt: IT Jungle guru and senior software developer at Profound Logic

Holt’s day job is working as a senior software developer for Profound Logic. But at night he becomes the IT Jungle’s Guru, dispensing IBM i code and snippets of hard-won wisdom as a senior technical editor of The Four Hundred. He also tweets from …
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Rocket Talks Up IBM i Biz in Wake of Restructuring

February 26, 2020 Alex Woodie

When Bain Equity bought a $2 billion stake in Rocket Software 16 months ago, it was largely viewed through a mainframe lens. Rocket was a mainframe software company, and Bain was investing in that mainframe business. But as the new general manager of the Power Systems Business Unit, Chris Wey, tells it, the company is getting ready to make some moves in the IBM i market, too.

Wey joined Rocket Software at the beginning of the year, immediately following the 30-year-old company’s most recent restructuring following the Bain acquisition. Andy Youniss, who co-founded Rocket back in 1990 to capitalize on …
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The Gamification Of Good Coding Practices

February 26, 2020 Nick Blamey

There are many things that are important about creating good code, but perhaps the most important is the idea that there are good coding practices and that everyone coding, no matter what the programming language and no matter what the type of application they are creating, should adhere to some standards of quality.

It is often the case that those have spent decades automating different aspects of businesses with systems like the IBM i and its peers have been the most resistant to brining automation to the very work they do in development and operations. But if the DevOps movement …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 26

February 26, 2020 Jenny Thomas

February may be the shortest month but sometimes it feels like is might be the longest. That could be because news on the computing front has been a bit slow in the last few weeks as we are getting ready for the announcements that come along with the Spring conference season. As February wraps up, we have a smattering of news to share from around our community, and we hope you’ll be sure to check out the growing list of Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings in the last section below, where the news is sure to be happening. …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 8

February 26, 2020 Doug Bidwell

We are back in synch again this week with the IBM i PTF Guide, and I am going to offer you a bit of personal advice just to get things going: Drink lots of water, every day. You will not regret it later in your life, trust me on that one. Coffee and tea and beer and wine don’t count nearly as much as cool, clear, clean tap water. Maybe herbal tea is alright.

Now, let’s get on with the rundown by IBM i release:

PTF Groups 7.4
- Backup Recovery Solutions
PTF Groups 7.3
- Backup Recovery Solutions
PTF …
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New IBM Champions Reflect on Their Journeys

Ted Holt: IT Jungle guru and senior software developer at Profound Logic

Rocket Talks Up IBM i Biz in Wake of Restructuring

The Gamification Of Good Coding Practices

Four Hundred Monitor, February 26

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 8

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