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GenAI Interest ‘Exploding’ for Modernization on IBM i and Z, Kyndryl Says

September 18, 2024 Alex Woodie

There’s been an explosion of interest in using generative AI on IBM i and System Z servers, according to Kyndryl’s latest report on mainframe modernization. Hybrid IT, security, the skills gap, and observability round out the top five trends impacting the IBM midrange and mainframe platforms.

Last year, Kyndryl contracted with Coleman Parkes Research to survey about 500 senior IT leaders at IBM i and System Z mainframe shops around the world. That effort turned into the 2023 State of Mainframe Modernization Survey Report, which we covered here.

Many of the same modernization trends that the former IBM Global …
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ARCAD Breaks Up Monolithic Code With New Transformer Tool

June 3, 2024 Alex Woodie

There are many different aspects to application modernization: moving from 5250 greenscreens to Web interfaces, adopting the SQL database engine, and using DevOps techniques. Another part of modernization is breaking up monolithic codebases into smaller, more manageable chunks that can be more readily integrated using APIs and Web services, and that’s the goal of a new version of its Transformer product line launched recently by ARCAD Software.

ARCAD Software already offers several capabilities under its Transformer brand, including Transformer RPG for converting fixed-format RPG to free-format RPG; Transformer DB for converting DDS files to modern DDL tables; Transformer Field for …
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Guru: The OpenAI API – The Easy Way

May 13, 2024 Dan Darnell

When it comes to programming in a particular programming language there is what you can do and what you can do easily. I use RPG every day and have done so since the System/34 days. I love the language but I’ve also picked up other programming languages over time because sometimes RPG isn’t the right tool for the job.

I’ve been using IBM EGL – Enterprise Generation Language – to create IBM i applications since 2009. IBM made a push at one time to entice RPG programmers to pick up the language and toolset (Rational Business Developer) for modernization …
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Fall 2023 IBM i Tech Refresh Brings Something For Everyone

October 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

As expected, IBM yesterday unveiled its fall Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i, with updates starting to become available on November 17. IBM announced no new products as part of the fall 2023 TR cycle, but it did spread the love around by giving just about everybody something to cheer about in IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9.

Lots of different products that make up the IBM i environment will see some pretty meaningful enhancements with this release. If you spend a lot of time in Navigator for i or ACS, you will see new stuff. We haven’t had …
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Thoroughly Modern: Latest IT Trends – Bring Security, Speed, And Consistency To IT With Automation

August 8, 2022 Alan Hamm and Chris Koppe

The irony of many IT departments is that they have spent many decades automating aspects of the business, literally encoding business processes and interactions with customers, partners, and suppliers to make those processes consistent and fast, but many of the processes used in the IT department itself are done manually and rely on the “tribal knowledge” of the system and application experts.

This is not only not necessary in many cases today, thanks to a myriad of automation tools that can be brought to bear on IT operations, but it is also dangerous and extremely risky. The systems that run …
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Sundry IBM Announcements Of Relevance To Power Shops

August 9, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is a particularly calm part of the Power Systems product cycle, and an unusually calm time in the IT market in general. So there ain’t a lot going on out there. But there are a few items from Big Blue that we wanted to make you aware of.

In announcement letter 621-011, IBM is rolling out a variant of software-defined networking, called IBM Cloud Networking appropriately enough, that can be used to interconnect instances of its X86, Power, and z machinery on the IBM Cloud public cloud to each other and to other cloud services through a series …
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Thoroughly Modern: Strategic Things to Consider With APIs and IBM i

August 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The great thing about application programming interfaces is that many of the ways that programmers need to interact with system and application software are predefined and allow for consistent access to features and functions as well as data. To a certain extent, the APIs are what make such software useful. The API describes how the interface works, and libraries (in the sense of the software market at large, not the OS/400 and IBM i definition of that word) are developed to implement the functionality of the interface.

The fun bit is that not only system software makers like IBM get …
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GenAI Interest ‘Exploding’ for Modernization on IBM i and Z, Kyndryl Says

ARCAD Breaks Up Monolithic Code With New Transformer Tool

Guru: The OpenAI API – The Easy Way

Fall 2023 IBM i Tech Refresh Brings Something For Everyone

Thoroughly Modern: Latest IT Trends – Bring Security, Speed, And Consistency To IT With Automation

Sundry IBM Announcements Of Relevance To Power Shops

Thoroughly Modern: Strategic Things to Consider With APIs and IBM i

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