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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1014

July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power10 entry and midrange machines are going to be with us for a long time, and so we are going to take our time and go through the different models, in their natural family groupings, and do a deep dive into the machines so you can make better decisions about where to go with your future system. This week, we start at the bottom of the line with the Power S1014, which will be the workhorse machine for many IBM i shops and which will probably be the highest volume box in the Power10 lineup over the next three …
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What Happens To IBM i In A “Zero Datacenter, Zero Mainframe” FedEx?

July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Federal Express, the pioneer in overnight document delivery for business founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1971 by Frederick Smith, did not start out in the ground shipping business. But it did start its datacenter operations on IBM mainframes, as any company needing complex and intense computing would at the time, and it chose Memphis, Tennessee, in the heart of America, as its headquarters and base of operations in 1973 when the company moved from a PhD thesis at Yale University to a true business.

In 1983, FedEx made history by being the first company in the United States to …
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Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 5 – Using IBM i PDI Charts To Answer Performance Questions

July 18, 2022 Satid Singkorapoom

During my long career as an IBM i performance specialist, it was natural for people to ask me performance-related questions of various kinds. But in many cases, it seemed to me that the customer could not understand my answers, and I could not provide supporting evidence due to the lack of a performance reporting tool that could produce easy-to-understand explanatory information. The situation changed for the better with the availability of IBM i Performance Data Investigator (PDI) tool as of release 6.1. I would say that the PDI tool provides charts of information that resemble those used by business people …
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As I See It: Pass The Chips

July 18, 2022 Victor Rozek

Decades ago, I was sent to Taiwan and met a colleague there to install a computer system in a silicon wafer manufacturing facility and provide necessary training to the staff. I took a cab from the airport to my hotel in Taipei and recall marveling at the extraordinarily generous freeways that served surprisingly light traffic flows. In many places, six to eight lanes stretched for miles in both directions supporting traffic that could have been accommodated by no more than two.

I became curious and finally asked my driver if he knew why the roadways were so incongruously wide? It …
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Support For Java 7 Ending WAS 8.5 On IBM i

July 18, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that are running the traditional version of WebSphere Application Server 8.5 atop a Java 7 codebase will need to upgrade to Java 8 or risk running out of support from IBM.

At the end of July, IBM will cease to support WAS Traditional 8.5 running on JDK 7.0/7.1. Customers will need to upgrade their WAS 8.5 environments to JDK 8.0 to maintain support with IBM. IBM currently provides full support for WAS 8.5 and WAS 9.0 running on JDK 8.0. You can read more about this on the Official Support Statement for the IBM WebSphere Application Server …
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Now Is Your Chance To Ask IBM i CTO Steve Will Some Questions

July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

You have always wanted to pick the brains of Steve Will, the long-time IBM i chief architect and now chief technology officer and distinguished engineer for IBM i. Will is the first distinguished engineer within the IBM i organization and also its first CTO, and if there is something technical you have on your mind, there is nothing quite like starting at the top.

Will is going to be one of the several speakers taking part in a live webcast hosted by Able One, a gold-level IBM i partner based in Kitchener, Ontario, that has been an IBM …
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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1014

What Happens To IBM i In A “Zero Datacenter, Zero Mainframe” FedEx?

Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 5 – Using IBM i PDI Charts To Answer Performance Questions

As I See It: Pass The Chips

Support For Java 7 Ending WAS 8.5 On IBM i

Now Is Your Chance To Ask IBM i CTO Steve Will Some Questions

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