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COMMON Cancels In-Person POWERUp Again, Takes Conference Virtual

September 22, 2021 Alex Woodie

COMMON announced last week that it has cancelled the in-person portion of the POWERUp 2021 conference that was scheduled to take place in Virginia Beach due to the Delta variant that is causing coronavirus infections to surge. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the show will go on as a virtual conference October 4-7.

This was the third time in two years that COMMON has been forced to cancel or delay its POWERUp conference. Like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown just as he’s about to kick it, SARS2 just won’t let COMMON actually hold …
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Transferring Low Code Benefits Into The IBM i

September 22, 2021 Eugene King

As with fashion, there are trends in the IT industry and history tends to repeat itself in several exciting ways. Development languages come into fashion, run their course, and then become obsolete. Then, they may be revamped with the addition of new criteria and frameworks. IBM i development also follows these same trends.

The low-code movement is not new but another iteration on traditional programming. Let’s do a brief history review.

At first, computer programming involved specific machine code associated with a particular processor architecture. Eventually, the language was slightly abstracted to facilitate second-generation assembler code, which was partially portable …
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IBM Improves Run SQL Scripts with ACS Update

September 22, 2021 Alex Woodie

In recent years, Access Client Solutions (ACS) has become an indispensable utility for a range of tasks involving the IBM i. A good reason for that success is the adoption of Run SQL Scripts, which has been enhanced with the latest Technology Refresh for IBM i 7.3 and 7.4.

ACS is a Java-based product that IBM first unveiled in 2012 and that has replaced other versions of Client Access, including the dedicated Windows utility. No matter what type of computer or device you’re using to work with the IBM i server, be it Windows, Linux, or Mac, you can access …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 22

September 22, 2021 Jenny Thomas

I was having a conversation with our fearless leader, IT Jungle president and editor-in-chief Tim Prickett Morgan, recently and we were lamenting the fact that it seems like fewer people want to talk on the phone. The exchange of phone numbers in email signature tags isn’t standard operating procedure for everyone these days, as people seem to prefer electronic communication that they can control when it is convenient rather than dealing with the interruption of a phone call. Having come up in the days where everything was done by phone (and fax, for those of us who remember), the adjustment …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 38

September 22, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Another week, another security vulnerability in open source code. Check out Security Bulletin: ISC DHCP for IBM i is affected by CVE-2021-25217, which you can view at this link. Here are the patches by release that deal with the issue:
- IBM i 7.4: SI76506
- IBM i 7.3: SI76507
- IBM i 7.2: SI76509
- IBM i 7.1: SI76508
Another reminder to everyone to participate in POWERUp 2021, which runs virtually from October 4 through 7. Visit the COMMON user group web site to find out the particulars. And we will see you there – virtually, that is!

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COMMON Cancels In-Person POWERUp Again, Takes Conference Virtual

Transferring Low Code Benefits Into The IBM i

IBM Improves Run SQL Scripts with ACS Update

Four Hundred Monitor, September 22

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 38

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